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This was actually a pretty revealing argument because both sides were talking about a different California. On Real Time with Bill Maher, Jonathan Martin defended living in California with the classic argument: Great weather. Great schools. Then Bill Maher immediately stopped him. The problem? What schools are we talking about? Because California has one of …
Warns kicking them out kills American college system. Trump says China builds universities overnight if we push back. America First gets parked for foreign tuition cash. China cash owns him now. pic.twitter.com/9JipTjaqam — Michael Zhang (@wenzhang115) May 15, 2026
Wow. So basically, if you do business with someone she doesn’t like, you’re on her hit list. Seriously, this is exactly why people distrust politicians and Washington in general. It’s not about policy or competence, it’s about vendettas and scorekeeping. FORMER OBAMA ADVISOR SUSAN RICE SAYS COMPANIES THAT WORKED WITH TRUMP WILL BE PUNISHED WHEN …
Context from a report by Trump’s Department of Education: “The largest, wealthiest, and most sophisticated of America’s institutions of higher education have received … foreign funds [totaling] billions of dollars.” “For at least two decades, the industry has been on direct notice that at least some of these foreign sources are hostile to the United States and …
🚨 BREAKING: In a bombshell moment, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ABOLISHES H-1B VISAS from being used at state universities "We can do it with Florida RESIDENTS or AMERICANS! If we can't? Then man, we need to REALLY look deeply at what's going on with this situation!" DeSantis… pic.twitter.com/u0ri9JM5SP — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 29, 2025 …
The Smith-Mundt Act is trending on X, don’t let this momentum die We must Restore the Smith Mundt Act and call it The Charlie Kirk Act to end legalized mainstream media propaganda Mike Benz talks with Joe Rogan about what Barack Obama really did by repealing the Smith–Mundt Act 🚨 It’s SO MUCH BIGGER …
by delugepro SOURCES https://www.opensecrets.org/fara/countries/143 https://www.opensecrets.org/fara/countries/73 https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lobbying?cycle=2024&ind=Q05 https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/topics/section-117-foreign-gift-and-contract-reporting/section-117-foreign-gift-and-contract-data FURTHER READING Qatar and China Are Pouring Billions Into Elite American Universities Qatar’s State-of-the-Art Foreign Lobbying Campaign
The Trump administration has taken a massive step by cutting $600 million annually from research funding for Australian universities. This has been a critical lifeline for projects in fields like biomedical and clinical sciences. Seven top universities, including the Australian National University and University of Technology Sydney, are now left scrambling. This isn’t just about …
Iowa’s three public universities have redirected more than $2.1 million from diversity, equity, and inclusion roles and offices in response to a new state law and directives from the Iowa Board of Regents.
The Idaho State Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution on Wednesday to ban offices and initiatives focused on fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion across the state’s public universities and colleges.
their time is coming. Trump has murmured 'Qatar' once or twice. — commentary (@gettingtrumpnow) December 24, 2024
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced that it would no longer mandate prospective hires to pledge allegiance to diversity, equity, and inclusion principles as a condition of employment, making it the first elite university in the United States to discard the practice. This decision marks a significant departure from the prevalent trend among elite universities …
A relatively new report outlines how universities nationwide have signed over students’ private FERPA data to a third-party vendor that reviews their personal information to help study college students’ voting trends. The nine-page report describes how a national voting study run out of Tufts’ Institute for Democracy in Higher Education gets university administrators from across the country …
“STOP GOING UNTIL WE FIGURE IT OUT” Canada is finally figuring it out that we have sham universities. I noticed this in 2010! International students poured in, and they struggled to speak and write in English. They let anyone in, and the education was sloppy and pointless. I was waiting patiently to hear that these schools are …
COVID class-action splurge continues: GWU university near White House pays $5M for shutting down class. Class-action lawyers may have frowned when Cornell University agreed to pay just $3 million last fall to settle a lawsuit seeking tuition refunds from its shutdown of classroom instruction early in the COVID-19 pandemic – a far cry from …
“By inducing their students to borrow from the government, higher education institutions collect vastly inflated tuition and fees, which they then spend without worrying about whether the loans will ever be repaid. This in turn incentivizes them to push the tuition and fees, and room and board, ever higher — by an average of 169 …
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The exorbitant costs associated with these universities prompt a critical examination of their value, leading to the conclusion that they may be among the biggest scams in human history. A basic Return on Investment (ROI) calculation reveals that sending a child to the business school, with all expenses included, totals a staggering $102,000. Over four …
The founders of many universities in the West started the institutions to teach Christianity. Some have moved far from that goal. In fact, a report at The Washington Stand points out how several schools, both in the United Kingdom and the United States, have started teaching witchcraft. And magic. And occult. And ritual. Those schools …
The broke-woke-stroke convergence: Why professors lower standards. “Broke” colleges and universities “scramble to attract and retain students, whatever their intellectual readiness,” they write. Faculty are under pressure to please the customers. If too many switch to an easier major, the professor could lose his or her job. “Woke” sensibilities have politicized student performance disparities, especially …
