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Syracuse invented evidence to find fraternity guilty of racial slur after investigation cleared them: lawsuit
When Syracuse University found Alpha Chi Rho collectively responsible for shouting a racial slur at a black female student, it not only ignored the woman’s family but overruled its own appeals board, according a lawsuit by the fraternity last week.
Most students want to be on campus this fall despite COVID, polls find
A major question on the mind of college students nationwide is whether their school will physically reopen this fall semester. According to recent studies — students would prefer they do.
After tweet supporting ‘good police officers,’ Arizona State revokes journalism dean offer
Arizona State University has rescinded a job offer to the new dean of its journalism school after students complained of past microaggressions and other insensitive comments.
Famed social psychologist Jonathan Haidt spells out three bad ideas to resist in college
Everyone is psychologically fragile and needs protection from words and ideas.
Details emerge on art installation censorship at Bellevue College
A campus watchdog group has said that public records indicate a college administrator censored an art piece memorializing Japanese-American internment camps to protect the reputation of a donor family.
Harvard professor’s research: ‘Defunding the police could cost thousands of black lives’
Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, riots, looting, and calls to defund the police, a Harvard economist has found that proactive policing saves black lives.
Experts say American branch campuses in China may be enabling research theft
While Congress continues to investigate American universities that host Chinese government-funded “Confucius Institutes” on their campuses, a different type of financial entanglement has gotten the notice of observers: universities that sponsor branch campuses and joint programs overseas.
Homeschooling scholar-mom takes on Harvard prof who wants to crack down on homeschooling
But Harvard professor stands behind her position that children’s right to safety, access to diverse ideas trumps parents’ unilateral right to homeschool
UChicago econ professor’s career being torn apart after criticizing ‘defund the police’
A distinguished University of Chicago macroeconomist has been suspended as editor of the Journal of Political Economy, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has cut ties with him, and he is under investigation by his university for alleged classroom “discriminatory behavior” regarding race.