Day: January 22, 2025

Taxpayers and Students Are Funding $2 Billion in DEI Course Mandates at Public Universities, New Report Finds

Rachel Alexander

The Goldwater Institute (GI) issued a report this month exposing how much DEI course mandates at public universities nationwide cost taxpayers and students. The report found that the cost is over $1.8 billion and could be as high as $3.8 billion, requiring 40 million hours. 

The report observed that the free speech advocacy organization Speech First found that 67 percent of U.S. colleges and universities require students to take a DEI course. Parents Defending Education revealed that the Department of Education awarded over $1 billion in grant funding for DEI courses within the past four years to K-12 schools and universities.

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U.S. Universities Failed to Disclose Tens of Millions in Chinese Funding

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UC Berkeley

American universities are failing to disclose millions of dollars in funding from China, a report released Wednesday found.

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has received $87.5 million from China since 2013 and another $59.4 million from Hong Kong, while the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) accepted at least $32.3 million within the same time frame, according to a new report from OpenTheBooks. However, both universities demonstrated “significant failures in the reporting of foreign funding,” according to a 2024 House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party investigation, which also predicted there to be “likely hundreds of millions, if not billions in total” of Chinese dollars flowing into American universities that are not reported.

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Trump Admin Just Turbocharged ICE’s Ability to Quickly Deport Illegal Immigrants

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ICE Arrest

The Trump administration incredibly expanded Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ability to quickly deport illegal immigrants from the U.S. on Tuesday, removing yet another enforcement hurdle.

“Expedited removal” is a policy that allows federal immigration officials within 100 miles of an international land border to remove illegal migrants via a streamlined process that bypasses the backlogged immigration court system. Per a notice posted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE agents now have the ability to implement expedited removal anywhere in the country, removing illegal migrants’ ability to slow-walk their removal by contesting their deportation order in court.

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Ohio Bill Proposal Bans DEI in Higher Education

Zachery Schmidt
Jerry Cirino

An Ohio state senator introduced a bill Wednesday that bans DEI in higher education in Ohio.

Senate Bill (SB) 1 would eliminate DEI “courses, training, litmus tests, required statements, and spending for any DEI initiatives or programs with the same intent,” according to a press release. State Senator Jerry Cirino (R-Kirtland) introduced this bill.

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Episcopal Bishop Breaks with Tradition, Criticizes Trump in Washington National Cathedral Sermon

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Mariann Edgar Budde

Mariann Edgar Budde, who holds one of the nation’s most prestigious clerical posts as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, curried controversy and drew pushback on Tuesday when she used a sermon to criticize President Donald Trump for some of his politics and policy prescriptions.

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Community Colleges Expand Apprenticeships to Address Labor Shortages

The College Fix

Entering 2025, community colleges are expanding apprenticeships and other experienced-based learning programs to address America’s labor shortage crisis and meet a growing demand for alternative forms of higher education.

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Commentary: Democrats Can’t Bully Their Way to a ‘Free Pass’

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Democrats gather on the House floor

I believe in restraint, tradition, decorum, and the precepts of our system of criminal justice: deterrence, punishment, and retribution. Turning the other cheek accomplishes none of these. Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons for his family, and his unprecedented preemptive pardons for members and staff of the January 6 Committee, Anthony Fauci, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Milley, underscore the necessity for Congress and Donald Trump’s Justice Department to perform their duties to investigate crime.

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Trump Executive Order Signals Crackdown on Pro-Terrorist College Students

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Pro-Palestine protesters

President Donald Trump’s executive order on foreigners who “support designated foreign terrorists” could be the start of a previously promised crackdown on radical pro-Palestinian students on American college campuses.

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