All posts tagged "Colleges"

Charlie Kirk never graduated college. He also wrote a book called The College Scam: How America's Universities are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth.

Nonetheless, after the right-wing activist was killed last month, shot dead aged 31, administrators at the Illinois community college where he enrolled for five semesters fielded calls to both honor Kirk and discipline an employee who criticized his views, records obtained by Raw Story show.

Kirk attended Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, a northwest Chicago suburb, from 2013 to 2014, before dropping out to co-found Turning Point USA, a national student group. ...

A college president is slamming President Donald Trump's political agenda, saying the top university "cannot support" it in exchange for federal funding.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is reportedly the first to reject and condemn Trump's dubious deal to nine universities, WSOC-TV reports Friday.

"In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education," MIT President Sally Kornbluth wrote in a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon and White House officials....

Scholars are responding to calls for Charlie Kirk memorial statues on college campuses, saying it's "really distasteful" and a "mistake."

After the 31-year-old MAGA influencer was fatally shot on a Utah college campus last month, more than a dozen House Republicans called for a statue at the U.S. Capitol to memorialize him, The Washington Post reports. Legislation was introduced in Oklahoma requiring each state university to add a Kirk statue. And in Texas, a similar call happened with Republican Rep. Nate Schatzline also saying public campuses should have them.

Then, a public liberal arts school, New College of Florida, which "has recently undergone a conservative overhaul," announced it would add a Kirk statue. ...

UNC Chapel is immediately reinstating a professor suspended in response to a dubious link to celebrations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The university said in an email Friday morning that following a “threat assessment,” the university found there was no basis to conclude that Dwayne Dixon, a teaching associate professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, “poses a threat to university students, staff and faculty or has engaged in conduct that violates university policy.”

Dixon had received notification on Monday from Interim Provost James W. Dean Jr. that he was being placed on indefinite administrative leave with pay due to “recent reports and expressions of concerns regarding your alleged advocacy of politically motivated violence.”...

Following President Donald Trump’s designation of “antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization, the president issued a memorandum that highlighted the assassination of Charlie Kirk as an example of rising political violence, while calling for “a new law enforcement strategy that investigates all participants in these criminal and terroristic conspiracies.”

Released on Sept. 25, the memorandum claims “anti-fascism” is an organizing force behind a “pattern of violent and terroristic activities.”

John Brown Gun Clubs, a decentralized network of armed leftists, would seem natural targets for any crackdown led by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces. ...

False reports of active shooters that put Villanova University in Philadelphia and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on lockdown and saw law enforcement swarming over campuses last week were likely perpetrated by an online swatting group called “Purgatory,” extremism researchers say.

Five Purgatory members hosted a voice call on Discord, a platform popular with gamers, on Aug. 21 to an audience of 41 people, livestreaming the bogus calls to authorities at Villanova and Tennessee, according to a report by Marc-André Argentino, a Canadian researcher.

Using a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service that masks caller identity and location, a Purgatory leader with the screenname “Gores” made calls reporting active shooters, per a report by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, or GPAHE, which also monitored the chat. ...