2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (752+ words) Students dance at Ohio State University; Ohio State Department of Dance/Facebook Fall class builds ‘a foundation for anti-racist reflection,’ according to dance department Ohio State University is offering a course this fall that teaches students to examine how racism…...

2+ hour, 30+ min ago   (746+ words) A woman uses artificial intelligence on her laptop; peshkov/Canva Pro Schools embed ‘algorithmic bias,’ ‘social good,’ ‘equity’ into AI initiatives Programs at colleges and universities are incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, principles into artificial intelligence research and…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (343+ words) UC regent Jay Sures speaking at Jewish Federation Los Angeles event; FEDLA/YouTube His ‘strategic silence … amounts to sanctioning violence’ The University of California Ethnic Studies Council is demanding the resignation of UC Regent Jay Sures for speaking at an…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (431+ words) A 9/11 memorial set up by students at a California State University campus was defaced with pro-Palestinian and pro-Antifa vandalism, prompting a police investigation. Vandals destroyed about 30 of the 2,177 memorial flags set up on Stanislaus State’s “free speech lawn” to mark…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (350+ words) A parchment scroll land acknowledgment; Google Gemini Four years ago, Brown officially established a land acknowledgment and several “commitments” which “recogniz[e] the University’s location ‘on lands that are within the ancestral homelands of the Narragansett Indian Tribe.’” The commitments…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (541+ words) A college employee is sad; Aaron Amat/Shutterstock.com Won’t even take effect until almost a year from now The University of Delaware wants its professional and administrative staff back in campus offices “at least four days a week,” but…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (563+ words) Yale administrative growth / Buckley Institute Yale University has a nearly 1-to-1 ratio between administrators and its undergraduate student body, a balance it’s maintained since at least 2021, representing the Ivy League institution’s “significant and disproportionate” ongoing bureaucracy bloat, according to a…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (589+ words) A U.S. Department of Justice investigation determined this week that the University of California Berkeley School of Law is “deliberately” discriminating against white and Asian student applicants. On Wednesday, the department announced its findings against the public university, citing the 2023 Supreme…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (340+ words) Fists in protest / Vector Art, Shutterstock Almost 1 in 3 students say using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable, according to the results of a nationwide survey of college students released Wednesday. About 63,000 students at 262 schools surveyed online by the…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (203+ words) Iranian flags flap in front of a building / Hallberg, Shutterstock Ian Oxnevad | Minding the Campus The ongoing war over Iran’s nuclear program has overshadowed the end of a financial fight with Iran here at home. Originally founded as the Pahlavi…...