Why Arab Students Remain Silent on Israel
…Flickr; According to the source, the march was co-sponsored by student groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine Philly, IfNotNow Philly, and Temple University Students for Justice in Palestine…
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Bootstraps and Bedlam Take Over Higher Ed
…students who were “too distressed” by the election. Not to be outdone, Harvard’s campus remains in turmoil, with faculty and law students staging “study-ins” reading George Orwell’s 1984 while brandishing…
Amid Tensions, Sensible Students Push for Civil Discourse
…of mutual understanding.’’ Efforts to bring students together are not limited to just BridgeUSA, however. Numerous student actions are emerging nationwide, and student-led groups are modeling positive, community-oriented behavior. Since…
Harvard Must Defend Its Libraries
…two weeks as a result. Since then, several groups of students, including law school students and about 25 faculty members, have conducted similar actions with mostly the same results. Many…
American Progressivism v. Racial Justice: A Collision Course
…full support for cash stipends, housing benefits, educational assistance, environmental justice, and more to Black Californians, incited protests by supporters of reparations. The Coalition for A Just and Equitable California,…
On Campus Safety, the Left Is Hopelessly Confused
…universities that accept G.I. Bill or federal-loan dollars must publish a Security and Fire Safety Report designed to improve student well-being by alerting the public to campus crime statistics. As…
Higher Education Shouldn’t Mean Higher Indoctrination
…other views risks indoctrinating students instead of educating them. Indoctrinated students have no room to question, challenge, debate, or defend positions on complex issues—in fact, it leaves no room to…
Student Loans Are the “Fudge Factor” That Allows Institutional Profiteering
…surely be unable to speak frankly on student loan burdens, high and rising tuition levels, institutional profiteering from student loans, and whether students benefit academically from attending college. But if…
In the New York Subway, Fresh Faces Carry the Weight of an Old Agenda
…in the early days of his communist infatuation, he did his part in protests. Indeed, he met his future wife on the frontlines of one of those protests. Chambers’ days…
Biden’s Indifference to Foreign Influence is Affecting the Education Department Too
…from exercising their influence in the dark. Especially in the aftermath of the October 7 protests, where college and university administrators were reluctant to discipline protesters—many of whom were lucrative…
Biden Administration Prods Universities to Restrict Speech, In Investigation of Drexel University
…policy that allowed students to be punished for speech that created a hostile environment because it did not require that a student’s speech be severe or pervasive for the student…
Women Lead Campus Protests, Men Outperform in Civic Literacy
…Young women are more likely than their male counterparts to vote, care about political issues, and participate in social movements and protests. A cursory look at the recent spring protests…
Biden Administration’s ‘Anti-Harassment’ Mandate to Colleges Tells Them to Violate the First Amendment
…campus protests in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. The agreements indicate official dissatisfaction with how the schools managed responses to the protests and require stronger action…
Safetyism and the Tentifada: Modern Campus Protests Undermine Intellectual Rigor and Erode Higher Education
…budgets will likely be unmoved by the public reaction against the excesses of campus protests. Jewish students will migrate elsewhere to avoid threats, as will the majority of students interested…
We Keep Us Grammatical
…And, indeed, there were at least three separate pro-Palestinian protests on May 25, though none of these efforts to disrupt alumni festivities amounted to much. “We keep us safe” is…
Rich Students Disproportionally Protest Israel: Should We Fund Elite Universities?
…or Northwestern, but little or no mention of protests at schools where those attending are primarily from working-class families with a high proportion of first-generation students or at historically black…
Veritas to Falsitas: Universities Have Abandoned Truth
…in an Instagram post chanting “from the river to the sea” during the commencement address. Instead, students held anti-Israel signs, and the chanting, initially thought to be from the students…
Divesting from Israel Is Not Just Wrong but Stupid
…the universities?” Can a group of students legitimately assert that they have the right to dictate the lives of students, faculty, and others who are stakeholders, if not stockholders, in…
An Octogenarian Reflects Upon Student Protests Over Six Decades
As angry crowds of student protesters gathered at elite universities across the nation to call for a ceasefire—and, in many cases, to echo the Hamas demands for the destruction of…
Ole Miss investigates student for making monkey noises in political debate, despite looming free speech issue
…quickly respond to incidents where “students hold culturally insensitive themed frat parties,” or people use “a word in Mandarin that sounds like the N-word”, or “even when students or faculty…
When University Leaders Won’t Lead
…like to raise another aspect of student protesting, in general, as it relates to how the modern university is organized and how it has responded to campus protests going back…
Progressive cities won’t enforce trespass laws against left-wing anti-Israel protesters, violating First Amendment rule against viewpoint discrimination
…a private Ivy League university: “Philadelphia Police ignores Penn’s request to disband unauthorized encampment. The university has to provide proof that the encampment poses an imminent danger. Penn students have…
Texas’s Higher Ed Officials Need to Wake Up
…if not all, of these demonstrations are led by, among several others, a radical terror-supporting organization known as the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP). Students for Justice in…
Top of Mind: Anti-Semitic Protesters
…As Ian Oxnevad aptly articulated, “It would be a mistake to dismiss the campus antics as just that. Student protestors and student groups in general are dangerous and have toppled…
Top of Mind: Reflections on Pro-Palestinian Protests
…name and email. It would be remiss for Minding the Campus not to address the recent surge of pro-Palestinian protests sweeping through colleges and universities across the nation. Protests erupted…
The Takeover
…answer is clear to anyone who watched the videos: these student protests are no longer composed solely of left-wing American students steeped in critical theory and post-colonial ideology. The protests…
After Claudine: How to Repair American Higher Education
…students. They are taught a combination of resentment and vulnerability that makes them easily led by the DEI demagogues. Led where? Into public protests where their individuality is dissolved into…
Nazism, Anti-Semitism, and Today’s Islamo-Fascism at American Universities
…with angry protests from some faculty, students, and alumni. An editorial titled “The Rumor Confirmed” in the Cornell Daily Sun of March 3, typifies the responses elicited by news of…
Campus DEI Fuels Anti-Semitism and Reinforces Racial Stereotypes
…people, and policies that create powerful incentives and career-threatening penalties that reach into every corner of the institution. This includes faculty hiring and student admissions, new curriculum, extracurricular programming, student…
Politik Kills and the Intelligentsia are Complicit
…and anti-oppression is shared by many others among the intelligentsia—whether it is expressed explicitly or through acquiescence. College students throughout the U.S. have held hundreds of pro-Palestine protests—some of which…