Jack Cowhick
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Racial bias or reality check? Controversy at GMU as African American studies faces restructuring | The College Fix (opens the original)
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George Mason University; Daniel J. Macy/ Shutterstock.com An apparent attempt underway to reclassify the African and African American Studies program at George Mason University has prompted claims from some faculty that the move is being driven through by a dean whose actions appear to be racially motivated. But one professor at the school told The College Fix the bureaucratic restructuring is probably more about streamlining a program that might not be in high demand at a time when higher educa
Universities weigh Pentagon’s demand for foreign research security audits | The College Fix (opens the original)
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Campus leaders nationwide are reviewing an immediate demand by the Department of War to conduct foreign research security audits or risk losing federal funding. Public responses to the Department of War’s Aug. 17 directive stating a “zero tolerance for academic partnerships that compromise our national security” include comments that there are no concerning ties or that currently established foreign academic collaborations are above board. Administrators have less than two weeks from the Aug. 17
Pennsylvania GOP lawmaker voices concern over Penn State Law’s mandatory DEI class | The College Fix (opens the original)
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Rep. Barbara Gleim and Penn State Law / YouTube screenshot A Republican state lawmaker is voicing concern over a mandatory DEI class at Penn State Dickinson Law recently flagged during a congressional hearing that led to the law school dean’s apparent demotion. “A college institution that’s receiving federal funds in my district should be following the federal law,” Pennsylvania state Rep. Barbara Gleim said in a recent interview with The College Fix, citing President Donald Trump’s executive or
Feds target alleged racial preferences in new wave of medical school probes | The College Fix (opens the original)
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Merit vs. diversity: Feds investigate five medical schools over possible admissions bias Three federal agencies have launched investigations into five medical schools for alleged racial preferences, adding to the growing pile of med schools being probed to determine whether they continue to illegally use affirmative action admissions practices. The latest round of investigations are a joint effort between the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, the Department of Health and Human Serv
40% won’t hire Trump voters: New report details higher education’s ideological divide | The College Fix (opens the original)
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Black professors outnumber their Republican colleagues at 11 elite higher education institutions including Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Roughly 40 percent of college faculty would “oppose hiring a Trump supporter.” A quarter of faculty in social sciences and humanities departments would “support a campaign” to remove colleagues for expressing conservative views “in at least one of four topic areas.” These are just some of the issues flagged in a new report from the America First Policy Institut
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