…professor had a history of controversial tweets denigrating whites. Steinbuch noted that when he was on the law school’s personnel committee, it scrutinized job candidates’ social media profiles to see…
New York University (NYU) School of Law reportedly reinstated a previously cancelled Federalist Society event focused on free speech, following criticism from right-leaning groups. The event, featuring Jewish constitutional scholar…
…set. By law, public institutions of higher education—which are, after all, government agencies—cannot discipline tenured faculty members for protected speech. I wrote about this case for the Chronicle of Higher…
…Furthermore, their investigation showed that China uses its own overseas students as agents of espionage, often through coercion. As Johnson told the College Fix, under China’s 2017 national security law,…
…and initiatives at public universities, a law that took effect in 2024. More recently, Senate Bill 12 extended DEI restrictions to K–12 schools and is now in effect for the…
…of the ongoing legal efforts to purge religion from the public schools. Since 1925, ten high-profile court cases have been brought to overturn anti-evolution laws like Tennessee’s that had been…
…of the Prophet Muhammad in an art history class—with advance warnings—she was fired after student activists claimed the image caused harm. (The professor’s lawsuit against Hamline over the firing was…
…of induction is in our law schools. Law, as practiced in academia, is especially vulnerable to such error because, among other problems, it systematically mixes law and politics as teaching…
…(p. 5). The 2019 Standards generally substituted democratic values for American values (e.g., p. 3), and silently deleted American values such as liberty, civic virtue, law, republican self-government, and patriotism….
…these students, compromising their educational opportunities. As a result, numerous lawsuits have been filed not just against Columbia but also against other schools, claiming those schools have failed to secure…
…The Defense of Freedom Institute and the Federalist Society’s annual Education Law and Policy Conference fleshed out the same issue in one session entitled Federal Effort to Combat Antisemitism: Restoring…
…code of conduct policies, all while attempting to enforce new “time, place, and manner policies.” Protests continued, and the school’s president resigned. Within this spotlight, Columbia faced criticism from Congress…
…civil rights law. Whether these schools are indeed violating federal civil rights statutes is for law enforcement to determine. But CAM’s grading system makes that determination far easier for investigators,…
…World Report (USNWR) decades ago, several organizations began ranking universities and their components, such as law schools and M.B.A. programs. Full disclosure: About 15 years ago, I started one of…
…that adjustment correctly, resulting in inaccurate aid estimates for millions of applicants. Schools were then forced to wait until March to receive accurate data, leaving many students unsure what they…
…of debate, the silencing of dissent, and the rise of an academic monoculture. Universities should be places of fearless inquiry, where multiple schools of thought collide in the pursuit of…
…among us […] so no. I will not pull back from CELEBRATING that an evil man died by the method he chose to embrace,” University of Arkansas Little Rock law…
…Rule of Law] Initially, as the foreign-born population grew, I faced some challenges with second-language speakers. I also noted that many of the young people maintained their cultural identity, as…
…law dean to regional university president on the West Coast, then returned to the Midwest. He recently resigned under pressure, but instead of facing any consequences, he is merely taking…
…established principles of justice that remain embedded in modern jurisprudence: equality before the law, the sanctity of contracts, and the conviction that law should restrain arbitrary power. Rome also valued…
…fueled his desire to kill children. [RELATED: A Retrospective on DEI and the Decline of Medical Schools] While drawing a direct connection between these two phenomena may appear unsubstantiated, a…
…“Every single student visa revoked under the Trump Administration has happened because the individual has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the United States,” a…
…Scholarship Council, are required by Chinese law to report back to Beijing. Many end up in sensitive labs with military applications, quietly funneling knowledge home. (Read NAS’s China and Our…
…this policy, schools must recognize only male and female students—or risk losing federal funding. HB 264 aligns with this federal guidance by requiring K–12 schools to designate separate bathrooms for…
…the law—especially above Trump’s orders. Codifying these measures into law is the next best step to ensure medical schools return to rigorous science and stop enforcing this ideological agenda. Schilling:…
…to private schools), while the latter applies to governmental action (so to public schools). Meanwhile, Title IX is the Congressional ban on sex discrimination in federally funded education, which is…
…it, and the Latin concepts that survive today in every law school in the country. Like law, math, and the science that relies upon it cannot be separated from philosophy…
…to exist. The ADL/Hillel survey found that 83 percent of Jewish students experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism at their schools since October 7, with 41 percent feeling the need to hide…
…Institute for Policy Studies’s model law, RESPECT Title IX Act, is a good template. It would “codify into law that sex is biological and binary,” the co-author Paul Zimmerman told…
…of higher education (engineering schools, business schools, private BTS programs, Catholic institutes, etc.). Approximately 428 are public, including: public engineering schools (INP, schools integrated into universities or EPSCPs) major institutions…