The director of national candidate services at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Tuesday falsely accused Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R.) of being one of the public figures embroiled in a massive scam involving parents committing fraud to get their children admitted into elite universities.
Chicago State University agreed this week to settle a First Amendment lawsuit. The decision follows several years and millions of dollars spent by the university fighting and losing other free speech cases.
The University of Minnesota agreed to pay a large sum to a former student who claims that after she was raped in Cuba, an academic advisor blamed her for being culturally insensitive.
A physics professor who blamed “cultural Marxism” for punishing scientists if they challenge the idea that “microaggressions,” “gaslighting,” and “mansplaining” are preventing women from succeeding in STEM has been suspended and is under an ethics investigation.
The New York Times will hold an event with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) Wednesday aimed at getting college students to vote in the upcoming midterm elections.
Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is set to give a paid speech at Rutgers University on Thursday, but she will rake in significantly less money than what she received in 2014 to deliver speeches at UCLA and other campuses.
Faculty members at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania voted overwhelmingly to revoke an honorary degree that the school bestowed on President Donald Trump nearly 30 years ago.
Brooklyn College in New York City has directed police officers who need a bathroom break to use the broken-down facilities in a building on the far edge of campus.
A professor at a Pennsylvania college has been working in recent weeks to have the school revoke a conservative group’s status as a student organization, arguing that it leans in a “homophobic, sexist, racist, and anti-Muslim ideological direction.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in talks with Columbia University to take on a formal role at the school.
