A trio of state senators are calling on SUNY to investigate its $2.7 million contract with a powerhouse publishing company accused of acquiescing to the Chinese government by censoring articles. Springer Nature, the dominant publisher of academic journals which has a five-year contract with the State University of New York system, allegedly blocked access to thousands … Read more
Billionaires who have grown disgusted by disruptive anti-Israel protests across US college campuses are abandoning their elite alma maters — and instead backing a new, “anti-woke” university in Texas that has just 92 students, according to a report. Wall Street trader Jeff Yass, real-estate tycoon Harlan Crow and investor Len Blavatnik are just a few … Read more
Former Cal Poly track and field star Shelby Daniele died Wednesday just months after she celebrated receiving her master’s degree, the university announced. A cause of death was not revealed. Daniele, 23, earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture in 2023 at California Polytechnic State University while starring on the school’s track and field team. The … Read more
Brian Moynihan has his hands full running Bank of America, the nation’s second largest lender, which is why he raised some eyebrows in July when he took on the volunteer position as chancellor of the Corporation of Brown University, the governing body of his alma mater. Those eyebrows got even wider when Brown took idiotic wokeness … Read more
The fight against antisemitism may soon get a powerful and deep-pocketed ally: Blackstone chief Steve Schwarzman. The private equity titan, worth approximately $40 billion, has been discussing with various people his concern about the anti-Israeli protests at Yale, his alma mater, and the broader attacks against Jews around the country, people close to him tell … Read more
Higher education’s descent into madness has led me to ask a simple but important question: Who exactly is financing college instruction in what is so obviously a mass indoctrination of so many of the nation’s (allegedly) best and brightest college-aged students at our top schools? Sorry, pure ideology pushing left-wing academic bias of the core … Read more
Ute Grabowsky | Photothek | Getty Images Computer science is not a new major at top schools, but with AI jobs in high-demand, there’s a growing list of colleges and universities offering a four-year “AI” degree specifically. These programs generally move beyond the foundations of computer science to home in on topics such as machine … Read more
A Wall Street tycoon Thursday vowed to claw back a $100 million donation to the University of Pennsylvania if the Ivy League school doesn’t boot UPenn President Liz Magill following her disastrous congressional testimony that failed to condemn rampant antisemitism on campus. Ross Stevens, the boss of Stone Ridge Asset Management, joined a growing chorus … Read more
