The University of South Carolina required students to affirm the value of “diversity and inclusion” as part of a mandatory training this summer, underscoring the tenacity of diversity programs in the face of public blowback and raising concerns about compelled speech at a school that has marketed itself as a bastion of free expression. In
As recently as 2011, Tim Walz claimed in official biographies for his campaign and congressional office that he was on the verge of completing a doctorate in education, a decade after he enrolled in a Ph.D. program at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota in the small town of Winona. The university, however, told the Washington
Anti-Israel United Nations official Francesca Albanese, who blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, is scheduled to speak at Brown University, just weeks after six hostages, including an American, were executed in Gaza. In response, members of the Brown community have circulated a letter urging the college to cancel the speech, citing Albanese’s
Harvard University has refused to cooperate with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office’s investigation into the assault of an Israeli business school student that occurred during a protest in October 2023. That decision has delayed the ongoing criminal case against two of the students caught on camera accosting their Jewish classmate, the Washington Free Beacon
Dozens of anti-Israel students at Columbia University gathered outside former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s “sham class” on Wednesday to protest her “war crimes” and urged attending students to walk out. Clinton teaches a fall semester course at Columbia called “Inside the Situation Room,” which is open to students by application only. Videos of the
As senator, Harris cosponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act Kamala Harris (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign recently walked back Harris’s position on EV mandates, stating she “does not support an electric vehicle mandate.” But the campaign is now shying away from questions about whether Harris would sign or veto legislation she personally cosponsored
Nearly three years after the Biden-Harris administration introduced a $42 billion initiative to improve internet access in rural areas, the program has yet to launch in several states, frustrating rural voters, Politico reported Wednesday. The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program (BEAD), a key component of President Joe Biden’s mammoth 2021 infrastructure law, promised to