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…a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agent impersonated a Stanford student. Under the alias Charles Chen, he approached several students through social media. Anna*, a Stanford student conducting sensitive research on…
…student on trial for violating the Student Conduct Code’s prohibition of misconduct, defined to include “plagiarism” and “cheating.” The CCSB panel found the student guilty. UMN vice provost Scott Lanyon…
Higher education’s problem is more than a loss of confidence. Anti-Semitism on many college campuses is a visible symptom of far deeper problems. Anti-Semitism has been tied to the networked…
…do not set Harvard University’s policies with respect to its students, faculty and other employees, or conduct on its campus,’ Klibanski wrote. [RELATED: NAS Statement: Fighting Harvard and the Other…
…to choose materials to add to university holdings, use similar standards to delete ideologically offensive materials—i.e., conservative material—from holdings, and conduct DEI-focused programs and general activities. An undoubtedly small measure…
…on a campus taken over by activists. Shafik did not achieve her goals and ended up resigning too in August when the campus was in the grip of new violence….
…not address: were the instances of uncited copying “plagiarism” or not? Instead, the report explained that Gay’s conduct “did not constitute research misconduct as defined by the FAS Research Misconduct…
…in 2020 when the Chabad Center at the University of Delaware campus in Newark was burned down in an act of arson? Where were you in 2022 when Roland G….
…phrase heard around campus. I distinctly remember peer-reviewing a classmate’s essay last year. The awkward vocabulary and disjointed paragraphs immediately revealed that it wasn’t his work. Though I kept my…
…I have witnessed this firsthand on my college campus. Curious about the strong support for Kamala Harris, I spoke with several women who were enthusiastic about voting for her. Yet,…
…institution. All those departures stemmed, directly or indirectly, from the presidents’ failures to address anti-Semitism on their campuses. The first domino to fall was Liz Magill at the University of…
…problems of discrimination and bias.”[8] The four focus areas where the greatest risk presented themselves according to the UC ‘Expert’ Panel was in health, human resources, policing, and campus safety—which…
…and investigations into SLC present are the real threats to Jewish students. He writes: My students … are unified in doubting the Trump administration’s commitment to genuinely fighting campus antisemitism….
…for Decades] Research Misconduct The reports of research misconduct are, unfortunately, nothing new and have been rising at alarming rates. The University of California San Diego noted that 2023 was…
…undesirable faculty. As a survivor of such lawfare, I saw these tactics firsthand. In 2021, I filed a First Amendment suit against Kern Community College District (KCCD) administrators. The district…
…inclusion were more than empty rhetoric, it would be working to resolve the serious problems on campus—not allowing its campus to remain hostile to Jewish students. I don’t blame this…
…to investigate the misconduct of NSF’s director. NIH and NSF each have an “inspector general” whose job is to ensure that public funds are not misused to support research misconduct.…
…has formed a committee to conduct a “comprehensive review” of the state’s education system. Including “looking at how the institutions spend state dollars and what they’re doing for Iowa’s workforce…
…American Archaeology—another organization that has canceled one of my talks —the 2025 meeting is linked to a lengthy “meeting safety policy and event code of conduct” page that includes forbidding…
…reportedly “mostly peaceful”—demonstrations against Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas, as described in deceptively sympathetic press accounts. Exuberant campus rhetoric often extends to advocacy of violence against Jews generally….
…their teaching, research, academic speeches and other off-campus talks; 27 percent felt unable to speak freely; 40 percent were concerned about reputational damages for being misunderstood; 23 percent worried about…
…of the U.S. There is a large gap between the NC legislature on the one hand and the central administrations and faculty senates of different NC university campuses on the…
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…email to the campus community on November 22 all the more difficult to reconcile with reality. She wrote, “Today, campus operations are back to normal.” They were not—the encampment remained…
…intellectual climate on campus. Recent campus headlines concerning the behavior of protesters illustrate the utility of such a pledge. It is obviously not acceptable to forcibly occupy campus facilities, physically…
…player conduct policies and introduce stricter disciplinary standards. The pattern of arrests has left UGA’s administration facing mounting pressure to implement more rigorous measures, including mental health counseling, mandatory behavior…
Harvard University has taken heavy criticism in the last year for not responding adequately to disruptive protests, encampments, and acts of anti-Semitism on its campus. Under the leadership of new…
…campus conduct board concluded that a few of the alleged incidents had contributed to a hostile work environment. Notably, the Title IX standard of “severe and pervasive” was ignored. The…
…Minding the Campus, but the harm done to U.S. intelligence agencies has not been assessed—until now. My study of the operational effects of DEI policies on the U.S. intelligence community…