A new Alabama law that bans state agencies, local boards of education, and institutions of higher education from sponsoring so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs or offices, was signed into law on Wednesday by Gov. Kay Ivey. Alabama’s Republican-led Legislature voted on Tuesday to advance legislation SB 129, which was authored by Republican state […]
The fallout from the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses is renewing scrutiny over foreign funding at institutions of higher learning. Jay P. Greene, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, discusses how foreign money buys influence U.S. universities, potentially undermining American interests.
A Florida law is sparking controversy in academia. The law bans state universities from taking grants from China plus six other countries. It also prohibits state colleges from partnering with colleges or entities from these countries. So even though Floridian universities can admit students from those countries, they can’t hire them to do research projects […]
Censoring speech and controlling the behavior of Americans. The federal government has spent millions on grants to colleges and universities—giving it leverage over higher education. Professor Nicholas Giordano from Suffolk Community College is sounding the alarm about what’s going on. Here’s our conversation.
Will President Joe Biden visit Israel? We have more on the ongoing discussions at the White House, and the latest in the U.S. response to the war now intensifying in the Middle East. A judge imposes a gag order on former President Donald Trump in a federal elections case. What’s at stake, and what is […]
The Texas legislature has given final approval to a new bill seeking to prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at publicly funded universities in the state. The legislation, known as Senate Bill 17, received final approval from both chambers of the Texas legislature on Sunday. The bill received a vote of 82 to 61 […]
As a fierce wave of COVID-19 infections invades Beijing, three more professors at Tsinghua University have died, adding to an increasing death toll among Chinese Communist Party (CCP) experts. They were also influential as members of China’s top academic advisory bodies. On the morning of Dec. 26, internationally renowned architectural design expert Guan Zhaoye died at the […]
China, its capital in particular, has been hit hard by the recent wave of COVID-19 that is sweeping the country. After dozens of professors and teachers from top Chinese universities passed away during the past 30 days, four more prominent Chinese figures have been reported to have died in the three days Sunday to Monday, […]
All eyes are on inflation. A key indicator is rising, surpassing expert forecasts for September. Along with rising prices, home mortgage rates have skyrocketed over the past year. Ohio Congressman Bill Johnson joins us to discuss. The Biden administration is breathing life into a Trump-era rule to send illegal border crossers from Venezuela out of […]
Riots, censorship, harassment, the squelching of free speech—these and more have been occurring on the campuses of colleges and universities across the country. John M. Ellis discusses how in many, if not all, instances the blame should not be placed on the students, but rather the faculties and administrations of the institutions of higher learning. […]
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) is working to stop the admittance of high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members and their families to U.S. schools. She says that the CCP is committing genocide and atrocities while benefiting from the world-class education offered in the United States. NTD spoke with Hartzler to learn more.
Students in California universities are experiencing a housing crisis, with a number of them living in hotels. Some are even living in their cars. UC Santa Barbara is among one of these universities. Some people blame this university for enrolling too many students. But the university says that is not the case. My guest is […]
Two more universities in Hong Kong erased public artwork commemorating Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, mainly students, known as the Tiananmen Massacre. Just before dawn on Dec. 24, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) took down a statue depicting a woman holding a flame. The 21-foot tall bronze sculpture, named “Goddess of Democracy,” […]
HONG KONG—Last month, several thousand Hong Kong university students, some under the watch of a CCTV camera, were the first to attend compulsory courses on the territory’s national security law. The content of the courses, some of which Reuters has seen exclusively, sets out the dangers of breaking the law, in one case demonstrating how […]
A new kind of virus has struck France, according to a French think tank expert. It’s wokeism. And the French education minister says this ideology is spreading in French universities, and it’s a threat to France’s traditional values such as tolerance.
Education is a key part of the Chinese Communist Party’s warfare against foreign countries. A French Senator says the threat is very serious since the government spends much less money on protecting universities` independence than the CCP spends on infiltrating them.
As they reel from revenue losses connected to the pandemic, many colleges and universities are racking up other costs not likely to turn up in their glossy brochures or as line items on staggering tuition bills: untold millions of dollars in legal fees and settlements for allegedly violating the rights of students, professors, and applicants […]
