Harvard Department of Astronomy chair: We were visited by an alien artifact 3 years ago
Was it the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey? Rama from the Arthur C. Clarke’s series? A piece of “scrith” from Larry Niven’s Ringworld?
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West Point leadership allows football players who cheated on exams to play in bowl game
The United States Military Academy, commonly known as West Point, cited a number of athletes, including football players, for cheating on a spring 2020 calculus exam.
Catholic school forced white student to accept critical race theory with ‘false imprisonment’: lawsuit
The day before a Nevada mother sued her son’s charter school for forcing him to take a class that promotes hostility against whites as a race, a Missouri family sued a Catholic girls school for its heavy-handed implementation of critical race theory, at least administratively.
University of Dallas student denied internship solely for being white
A female student at the University of Dallas has recently come forward with her story after being rejected from a summer internship opportunity due to being white.
Harvard dumps Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik from political science advisory board
Claiming she had made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election “that have no basis in evidence,” Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf today announced Rep. Elise Stefanik would be removed from a school political science advisory board.
Activists organize to expel critical race theory from California ethnic studies ‘model curriculum’
Activists are once more taking aim at California’s “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum,” demanding a broader historical perspective than critical race theory.
Public university unconstitutionally censored a student journalist. Then it stopped – but didn’t tell him.
This is what Haskell Indian Nations University, a federally run tribal institution in Kansas, will be known for in the next decade, and it has only its president to blame.
Professor Ibram Kendi to launch massive, nationwide racial inequity data tracker
Anti-racism proponent and Boston University Professor Ibram Kendi is embarking on a new project — a collaboration of his anti-racism activism and data.
University rolls out new major in ‘Animal Studies’
Madonna University announced a new major in Animal Studies that will launch in the 2021-22 school year.
Johns Hopkins probes pro-Palestinian TA who tweeted about lowering Jewish students’ grades
Johns Hopkins University is reportedly investigating a pro-Palestinian teaching assistant who tweeted about lowering Jewish students’ grades.
