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The University of Connecticut just held a "Queer Science" event for high schoolers. One of the goals was to "counter the stereotypical image of a 'scientist' as a straight, white, cisgender man."

RT @MattLamb22: My airing of grievances about ghost students. Answer 👏 your 👏phone.

How convenient! University of Minnesota's student government teamed up with a Democratic Party delegate and a campaign volunteer to run voter outreach to students. What are the odds??

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Professor who once donated to Abdul El-Sayed in charge of UMich get-out-the-vote efforts

RT @OTI_USA: Coverage by @CollegeFix of the APA opinion piece by @SwipeWright and @Hartz_PhD Read more:

Teacher who posted ‘Zionism is racism, settler colonialism, genocidal violence’ helped write social studies curriculum. 😳 More:

‘Sex-based discrimination is an objective reality test, which should make enforcement easier,’ a legal expert told The Fix.

Does grading for accuracy just incentivize AI use? 🤔

A student says she finished both her bachelor's and master's degrees in less than 6 months through a U. Maine program. Now it's under investigation.

Good insights from a Brown University student, opposing a campaign to end study abroad in Israel. “Studying abroad should encourage students to confront complexities rather than avoid them,” Maya Rosenberg wrote. “Eliminating opportunities for students to study in Israel would not make those complexities disappear, but remove an excellent avenue for students to begin to understand what is happening.”

Go Pedro!

Pedro Rodriguez, former College Fix reporter and fellow, is now at Fox News! Way to go Pedro!

This fall, Case Western Reserve told student organizations to align their missions with its core values, including "inclusiveness and diversity.”

‘Forcing students to affirm the university’s views imposes an enforced orthodoxy on campus,’ attorney tells The College Fix

RT @MattLamb22: U. Cincy "effective speaking" classes prohibit "sexism, ableism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, classism, ageism." Professors claim legislators restrict their speech and then go on and chill the speech of their own students.

University of Chicago student files ethics complaint against Sen. Slotkin

RT @JenniferKabbany: The cost to attend USC for the 2026-27 school year is $103,162

RT @OwenGregorian: U. Maryland LGBTQ lab hit with civil rights complaint over race-based programs | Rose Meza - Christendom College, The College Fix The University of Maryland’s LGBTQ research lab is facing a legal complaint over its alleged use of race in selecting participants for its Teens of Color Advisory Board and Research Assistant Program while receiving federal funding. The Equal Protection Project submitted the civil rights complaint to the Department of Health and Human Services, targeting UMD’s Lavender Lab. “As the complaint explains, HHS investigation is warranted because the Lavender Lab uses race, color, and/or national origin in connection with certain programs and opportunities related to its federally funded research,” the EPP stated in a case overview. The complaint flags the lab’s “LGBTQ+ Teens of Color Advisory Board” and its Research Assistant Program, urging review under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. It also notes that one of the lab’s projects, titled “Long-Term and Daily Associations Among Intersectional Minority Stress, Structural Oppression, and Alcohol Use and Misuse Among Sexual Minority Adolescents of Color,” is funded by a federal grant worth approximately $3.6 million. The project will run through April 30, 2027. The lab studies the “determinants of suicide, substance use, and other health outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) individuals and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC),” according to its webpage. EPP Founder William Jacobson told The College Fix, “The Lavender Lab does not even try to hide the race-based nature of the programs we have challenged.” The lab hosts a “Teens of Color Advisory Board,” which openly prefers non-white teens who identify as LGBTQ, he said. “Such racial preferences and requirements must have a compelling state interest to be justified, and there is no such compelling state interest here,” Jacobson said. “Efforts to promote diversity are not compelling state interests under clear law, including the Supreme Court’s decision in the Harvard affirmative action case,” he said. Echoing Jacobson, Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Andrew Quinio told The College Fix that the lab’s race-based selection process is not only “unconstitutional,” but also “immoral and demeaning.” Quinio described the case against UMD as “an important and necessary step toward eliminating discrimination.” He cited a Supreme Court ruling which decided, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” Quinio also said this is a common problem among higher education systems throughout the U.S. Other universities have been called to court by the Department of Justice over their “racially discriminatory admissions policies,” he said. “Universities have long lamented their inability to craft their campuses based on race and have consistently pushed the legal envelope to do what they are prohibited from doing,” the attorney said. He added that the Constitution does not allow public universities to hide behind the pretense of public health to justify discrimination. The College Fix reached out to UMD and the Lavender Lab via multiple emails for their responses to the complaint. Neither responded. This isn’t the first time UMD has faced scrutiny for its focus on race and gender. Earlier this year, physicians raised concerns over new course offerings that incorporate identity politics into various public health and medical programs at the public institution, The College Fix previously reported. “Decolonizing Medicine: Steps to Actionable Change” is a one-credit undergraduate public health course that covers how “colonial legacies” impact “global health systems” and the “concept of ‘the White body’” as the standard in medical training, according to the university registrar’s catalog. Last year, the university opened a “Black & Indigenous environmental art gallery,” aiming to support students’ “climate anxiety” and other “stresses” of studying “environmental injustice and environmental racism.”

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The American Psychological Association's progressive politics have raised concerns about its power to accredit higher ed programs. “Patients shouldn’t have to worry about whether their treatment is evidence-based or shaped by a political agenda,” two scholars write in the WSJ.