There is a lot of tension in the world of higher education. The spotlight is on Columbia University. The reason? A mix of funding cuts and crackdowns on student protests. President Trump's administration has put the university in a tough spot. It all started with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil is a student activist with Palestinian roots. He recently graduated...
"Multiple colleges, including Northwestern University, are in hot water after protests against Israel’s actions in the Israel-Hamas war. Which seems to have turned messy. The federal government is stepping in. They're calling the situation "widespread antisemitic harassment, " and they're using a law from the 1960s to investigate the situation. Why the 1964 Civil R...
Are our most prestigious universities becoming hotbeds of censorship? A recent survey by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) suggests that might be the case. The survey found that some of the nation's most elite schools, including Columbia, NYU, Penn, and Harvard, rank at the very bottom for free speech. This begs the question: are these insti...