Posts Tagged: higher education
Israel Studies Under Attack at US Universities, New Report Finds
Israel Studies as an interdisciplinary field is in danger of being crowded out of American higher education by infectious ideologies which are having success in...
Leading Academic Group Denounces National Women’s Studies Association for Silence on Hamas Atrocities Against Women
A group of feminists and scholars at US universities has issued a searing open letter censuring the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) for not condemning...
‘Anti-Jewish Double Standard’: University Responses to Hamas Massacre Far Less Robust Than to Other Crimes, Study Finds
US universities have demonstrated an "anti-Jewish double standard" by responding to Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel and the ensuing surge in campus antisemitism...
College Newspapers Single Out Israel for Opprobrium, New Study Says
College newspapers tend to paint Israel in bad light, according to a new report by the Alums for Campus fairness, a US watchdog monitoring antisemitism...
World Jewish Congress Links Up With Student-Led Group Jewish on Campus
The World Jewish Congress and the Jewish on Campus are partnering to fight antisemitism on college campuses, a press release announced Tuesday, aiming to widen...
Leading Jewish Groups Launch Portal for Students to Report Antisemitism Online
A new website where Jewish students can report antisemitism on college campuses and "receive immediate support" from security professionals and law enforcement launched on Wednesday,...
Amid Uproar Over Planned SFSU Event With Leila Khaled, Zoom Changes Policy to Give Universities More Control
Zoom has introduced a new policy on “academic freedom” for higher education users, which will limit its interference in the shutdown of controversial virtual events...
The New York Times Blames American Mores for Saudi Students’ Misbehavior
It’s one of the horrible ironies of history that September 11, 2001, was the day that the New York Times chose to publish an adulatory...
Ignorance: The True Cost of Higher Education
During several sleepless nights, watching loops of 24-hour news broadcasts devoted to the US presidential race, I noticed certain themes that otherwise might have escaped...
