The College Fix

OPINION: Because they adore figures like Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, as well as critical theory and Marxism — all things that’ve never actually worked This past week, MS NOW host Chris Hayes tweeted out the following: “The most left wing people in America are people with post graduate degrees who are financially strapped and the most right wing are people without 4 year c...

An Oregon school district social worker fired for refusing to take down a display of allegedly “transphobic” kids’ books has lost his free speech lawsuit at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision. Roderick Theis had the books “He is He,” “She is She,” and “Johnny the Walrus” in his La Grande Middle School office because he says he was “inspired by the[ir] messag...

The U.S. Department of Education removed disparate-impact from Title VI regulations this week, meaning it will no longer treat neutral school policies or practices that produce unequal outcomes by race as violations of federal law. “Disparate-impact provisions allow demographic data alone to establish that a school violated federal civil rights laws, even if there is no facia...

Higher education leader says Texas also may reinstate standardized testing requirement for college admissions Texas’s public colleges and universities may begin using the Classic Learning Test as a factor in college admissions, the state Higher Education Coordinating Board informed leaders in a letter Thursday. Jeremy Tate, founder of the Classic Learning Test, shared the boa...

One university hosts lectures by AI avatars that ‘look and speak just like Albert Einstein,’ ‘mathematician John Nash’ Robot teachers aren’t a futuristic dream of the past anymore. Universities in China are using them, and some American institutions are beginning to experiment with the interactive robots, or “AI avatars,” too. New for the coming academic year…