higher education
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U Penn Med School Eases Admissions for Certain Minorities
By infantilizing its medical school admissions standards, the University of Pennsylvania puts future patients at greater risk.

Leftists for Discrimination in College
Woke Democrats and the ACLU file amicus briefs in favor of keeping race as a central factor in college admissions.

Beware the Confucius Institute Rebrand
Having been shown the door by the Trump administration, Red China's propagandists are back under a new name with the Biden administration.
Cancel Culture Is Alive and Well on Campus
By one count, there were nearly 200 examples of campus cancelation by the woke mob last year.

Woke Princeton Cancels Tenured Professor
For the high crime of criticizing its new woke agenda in a public manner.

The Generation That Hates George Washington
An op-ed in a paper named for the father of our nation calls for renaming the university named for him.
Harvard Blows $100M Fighting Slavery
The Ivy League institution is spending gobs of money to exorcise the demons of its distant past.
What About Ditching College?
Enrollment is down at institutions of higher learning as prospective students look into more appealing alternatives.

Biden's Stepping Stone to 'Free College'
The Democrats' voting-buying college tuition racket includes ever-expanding Pell Grants.

Can the Cancel Crowd Be Canceled?
A mob of Yale Law School students shouted down a bipartisan panel recently, and school administrators were too gutless to discipline them.

Comedy Masquerading as Academia
Steven Crowder, disguised as a fat studies scholar, gets paper accepted at prestigious university conference.
Campus Coddling Is Creating Sheep
Intellectual curiosity and independent thinking have all but disappeared from our nation's colleges and universities.

Jordan Peterson Leaves Authoritarian Academia
The famed Canadian academic has had enough of cancel culture and "diversity."

Georgetown Law Panders to the Mob
Professor Ilya Shapiro was suspended and is likely to be fired for daring to criticize Biden's SCOTUS racial test.

College and the Continued Closing of the American Mind
Whether curriculum or COVID, colleges and universities continue to lurch further and further away from their original mission.

Weakening the SAT to Fight 'Racism' and COVID
The College Board is testing the limits of standardized testing with politically driven changes.

The Folly of School Closures
Around the nation, kids are being sent back home for virtual "learning."

Trump's China Initiative Nets First Fish
A Harvard professor is found guilty on all charges of working with China.

Alumni Are Fighting for Free Speech on Campus
Colleges and universities are still bastions of speech suppression, but a loose network of grassroots alumni is fighting back.

Universities and the Price of Cowardice
The consequence of "woke rules" is intellectual stagnation at elite universities.