Columbia University threatened Tuesday to expel the students who have taken over an academic building, raising the stakes on the spiraling anti-Israel protests that have brought the Ivy League campus to a standstill. The announcement came shortly after Columbia shutdown its main Morningside campus to everyone but students living in the dorms and essential personnel […]
Another day, another replacement for President Joe Biden being touted by someone with a platform. Christopher T. Brooks isn’t necessarily the biggest name in the punditocracy, to be sure. The East Stroudsburg University history professor and member of the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has contributed to publications such as […]
It turns out that the High Priests of The Science™ are just as susceptible to the earthly temptation to engage in corruption as the lowly peasants they rule over. Via Stat News (emphasis added): There was a time when an allegation of data mishandling, scientific misconduct, or just a […]
Academic institutions in the U.S. — including Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley — are now offering courses on pop icon Taylor Swift, examining her copyright battles, economic influence, and ascent to legendary status in pop culture. But not all have embraced the trend of incorporating pop stars into university curriculum. The Citizen Free Press account’s video […]
This time, a medical school neuroscientist is on the hot seat for research misconduct at Harvard. Claudine Gay could at least argue that her academic misconduct wasn’t exactly brain surgery, but now that two of the academic scandals are at Harvard Medical School and one includes a neuroscientist, you get the idea. This is not […]
Harvard can’t catch a break. Not that I feel sorry for them. The university is getting what it asked for, good and hard. They look down at the plebs with disgust because, after all, Harvard has all the credentialed smart people, so they can’t complain when others point out that those credentialed and smart people […]
Matthew Karp, a history professor at Princeton, wrote an interesting thread on what has happened to his academic discipline over the past few years. Interesting and unsurprisingly very troubling. History Departments are no longer interested in teaching history per se but the history of ethnic groups. This is revealed in the job postings from history […]
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