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Cal State’s new ethnic studies requirement promotes ‘bigotry and harm,’ pro-Israel groups warn
Students forced to ‘advance ideologies and values with which they do not agree’ […]
Students forced to ‘advance ideologies and values with which they do not agree’ […]
In late November, Columbia University’s Student Council voted to put the question of whether to recommend that the university divest “from companies that profit from or engage in the State of Israel’s acts towards Palestinians” to a...
Do colleges treat anti-Semitism differently from sexism and racism? Evan Gerstmann, professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University, phoned in to talk with ACTA President Michael Poliakoff about his two recent Forbes articles: the...
On Wednesday, December 11, President Trump signed the “Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism,” a measure designed to counter anti-Semitism at colleges and universities eligible to receive federal funding. Under Title VI of the Civil...
New York State judge Nancy M. Bannon recently ordered Fordham University to recognize […]
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni debuted an ongoing list of academics […]
IN 1820, Thomas Jefferson wrote of the university he had founded: “This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever...
WASHINGTON, DC—The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) today offered strong praise for members of the Modern Language Association (MLA), who overwhelmingly voted to refrain from an academic and cultural boycott of Israel....
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