Tag: Schools & Higher Education
Harvard, London School of Economics offer positions to embattled former Penn president Liz Magill
Liz Magill, the embattled former president of the University of Pennsylvania who testified before Congress that calling for the genocide of Jews wouldn’t necessarily violate the school’s code of conduct, has secured unpaid positions at Harvard...
Cooper Union president resigns, having cited ‘new challenges’ last year
Laura Sparks, president of Cooper Union in New York City, announced on July 17 that she would step down In August, but the news only began to spread widely on Thursday.
“Cooper Union president Laura...
House leaders demand 10 elite colleges detail plans to counter campus Jew-hate
The heads of the Education and the Workforce Committee, and the Ways and Means Committee have called on administrators at 10 top colleges to provide detailed plans to prevent bigotry and intimidation against Jewish students seen...
Rutgers releases set of guidelines to curb tent encampment protests
Rutgers University has released a new set of “guidelines for free expression on campus” that would limit the large anti-Israel demonstrations seen on campus during the previous academic year.
The public university announced the new rules on Tuesday, which include a ban...
Lawmakers investigating antisemitism at UC-San Francisco medical centers
Three legislative leaders have contacted Sam Hawgood—chancellor for the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)—insisting that the school take action in combating hatred of Jews on campus.
House Energy and Commerce Committee chair Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers...
‘ABC News’ hires an Israel-basher from Harvard
ABC News recently hired a new reporter to write about politics, including U.S. policy towards Israel: a Harvard University student journalist who has accused Israel of “atrocities” and who has praised the pro-Hamas protesters on...
Two-thirds of Texans support school vouchers, survey suggests
Roughly two-thirds of adult Texans support school vouchers, which lets parents choose if tax dollars allocated for their children pay for public or private school, according to a new survey conducted by the public affairs schools...
‘As if my home turf no longer mine,’ students tell senators about school Jew-hatred
Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.), co-founders and co-chairs of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, heard about Jew-hatred on campus from Columbia University, University of Oregon, University of Oklahoma, Rutgers University, George...
California school district violated Title VI by failing to address antisemitism
A California school system failed to follow the 1964 Civil Rights Act by not protecting Jewish students from antisemitism, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
That office announced on Friday that...
Senate bill would beef up Title VI probes of alleged school biases
Four Republican senators introduced the Restoring Civility on Campus Act, which calls on the U.S. Department of Education to immediately investigate alleged school violations of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act barring discrimination based...