Category: Campus
UMich Regent Candidate Who Praised Hezbollah Wins Democratic Nomination
Dearborn, Mich. attorney Amir Makled, who shared since-deleted social media posts praising late Hezbollah terrorists as “martyr[s]” and urging Iran to “show no laxity” against Israel, won the Michigan Democratic Party’s nomination for the University of Michigan Board of Regents during the party’s convention Sunday.
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Qatar Hires Crisis Management Firms To ‘Address Public Misconceptions’ About Funding For American Universities, Records Show
Qatar has retained two Washington, D.C.-based crisis management firms to “address public misconceptions” about its funding of U.S. universities in the wake of high-profile scrutiny from Congress, federal disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.
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American University Advertising for Jewish Students, Mirroring Efforts From Dartmouth
American University is recruiting Jewish students through an ad in a Brooklyn-based Jewish newspaper describing the school as a “place where Jewish students feel at home.” The move follows similar efforts from Dartmouth and Brown universities as other Ivies, namely Harvard and Yale, experience declines in their Jewish populations.
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Yale Law School Loses Top Spot in US News Rankings After Scandals Tarnish Ivy League School
Yale Law School is no longer number one. Four years after a bevy of free speech scandals, several revealed in the pages of the Washington Free Beacon, shook the Ivy League school, Yale on Tuesday lost its spot atop the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings, which it had occupied for more than 35 years. Stanford is now the top law school, with Yale and the University of Chicago tied for second place. Harvard Law School, meanwhile, ranks number six.
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‘I F—ing Hate This University’: Columbia Student Workers Union Erupts Over Anti-Semitism Task Force’s Recommendation To Hire Middle East Professors Who Don’t Hate Israel
After Columbia University’s anti-Semitism task force recommended hiring faculty members who were “not explicitly anti-Zionist”—the task force’s final report noted that there are no such professors who are full-time and on tenure track—an official group chat for the Ivy League school’s student union erupted, screenshots exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Members compared Zionists to racists and fascists. The chair of the union’s board said, “I f—ing hate this university.”
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‘Potentially Materially Inadequate Disclosure’ on Harvard’s $675 Million Bond Offering Prompts ‘Anti-Fraud’ Warning
The disclosure to potential investors in documents for Harvard’s planned new $675 million tax-exempt bond offering doesn’t give enough warning about the risks, a watchdog group says.
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As Yale’s Jewish Population Declines to 1940s Quota Levels, University Leaders Say Jewish Community is ‘Thriving’
Yale College’s Jewish enrollment is down from 16.4 percent in the 2010s to just 9.5 percent in 2024, a level comparable to the 1940s, when the Ivy League school imposed quotas aimed at excluding “alien” Jews from campus, according to data from the Yale Chaplain’s Office. Yale leaders said they aren’t concerned by the figures and that the school’s diminished Jewish community is “thriving.”
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‘Completely Wrong’: Trump Demands $1 Billion From Harvard, Contradicting New York Times Report
President Donald Trump announced that he is seeking $1 billion in damages from Harvard University and flatly rejected a New York Times report claiming that his administration had backtracked on demands for a financial payment to resolve charges of anti-Semitism and civil rights violations.
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Carnegie Mellon DEI Chief, Whose Salary Is Partially Funded by Qatar, Worked As ‘International Liaison’ for Sanctioned Palestinian Nonprofit
Carnegie Mellon University’s top DEI official, currently at the center of an anti-Semitism discrimination lawsuit, served as an “international liaison” for a terror-linked Palestinian NGO that was recently sanctioned by the State Department.
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Teachers’ Unions Sue To Block Tax Cut Referendum From Appearing on Ballot
Massachusetts teachers’ unions are suing to block residents from being able to vote on a statewide tax cut, asking the state’s supreme court to keep it off the ballot in November.
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