Many of us are familiar with 1 Corinthians 13, a passage of Scripture that talks about love: “Love is patient, love is kind…” Now, a department at the University of Oklahoma would add another item to the list:...
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Kelvey Vander Hart
Congress to Reconsider Massive College Student Data Grab
As Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the powerful chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, approaches retirement in 2020, he and Congress are making one last push to reauthorize the...
Karen R. Effrem, MD
California Debates Requiring State Universities to Offer Abortion-Inducing Drugs
California is poised to be the first state in the nation to require abortion-inducing medication be available on campus at each of its public universities. Democrat State Senator Connie M. Leyva is the prime sponsor...
WATCH: Pro-Abortion Students Destroy Pro-Life Messages on Wash. Campus
Abortion advocates at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., took it upon themselves to protect the campus from sidewalk chalkings made by a pro-life student group, alleging the chalked messages to be...
Congress Explodes Deficit, Expands Nanny State Programs with Budget Deal
Despite courageous efforts by Senator Rand Paul, other fiscally conservative senators, and the House Freedom Caucus, as well as the objections of pro-amnesty Democrat members in both chambers, Congress passed a two-year...
Court to University of Iowa: Stop Discriminating Against Christian Student Group
Nicole Russell, writing for the Washington Examiner, reports on a stunning ruling in favor of religious liberty from an Iowa federal court which ordered the University of Iowa to cease discriminating against religious...
Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg
Will Congress Spend Big on This Failed Education Program in 2018?
The corporations, foundations, investors, and politicians funded by them have been working hard this year to promote competency-based education (CBE), also called personalized learning, as well as its evil sibling...
University of Iowa Becomes Latest School to Attack First Amendment
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. It seems almost every day we hear of incidences of censorship at colleges and universities. Whether it’s...
Terry Schilling
Grading the GOP’s Latest Education Bill: Needs Improvement (on Data Privacy)
The House Education and Workforce Committee completed their mark-up last week of HR 4508, which they have named the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act. Here is an...
The One Problem with the Republican Tax Bill
With the Senate’s passage of Republicans’ much publicized tax reform bill, many conservatives are growing optimistic that Americans are on the verge of much needed tax relief. With the House version easily passing...
Erik Halvorson
Truth Is the Greatest Weapon Pro-Lifers Have Against Abortion
Alliance Defending Freedom recently announced it is suing Miami University of Ohio on behalf of the campus’ Students for Life chapter. Why? Because an administrative official required them to post “trigger warnings”...
Guess What? Congress Wants to Collect Even More Sensitive Student Data
Amidst of the ongoing battle against the surveillance state that we have chronicled with the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (FEPA), the College Transparency Act (CTA), and the regulatory gutting of the...
Liberal Prof. Ordered to Pay Fine for Destroying Pro-Life Students’ Messages (VIDEO)
A federal court has ordered that a liberal Fresno State University professor must pay $17,000 in damages and undergo training on the First Amendment after he violated the free speech rights of pro-life students on...
Should College Students Be Able to Grade Themselves? One Professor Thinks So…
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. In a recent Liberty Minute entitled “I Deserve an A,” Helen Krieble talks about a college professor’s decision...
When Government Picks Winners and Losers, Everybody Loses
This article is part of a series focusing on Lens of Liberty, a project of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation. Last week, the Washington Free Beacon reported that Seattle University’s Law School revoked its sponsorship of...
How Anti-Conservative Rhetoric Has Led to Shaming Evangelical Students
According to an overreaching board of trustees, evangelical students at Princeton University should hide their religious affiliation because it stereotypes them as Republicans. The board recently announced their...
Andrea Moury
Universities Have a New Plan to Fight Racism: Segregate Students
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is rolling out a new plan to fight racism on college campuses — by funding segregated dinners. Yes, you read that correctly. Brown University, one...
Psychological Profiling of Students Ramps Up — And Parents Have No Idea
It is getting very hard to keep up with all of the ways social emotional learning (SEL) is infiltrating education in America and how the SEL data collection is expanding throughout all grade levels, frequently without...
Free Speech or Hate Speech? Congress Debates College Censorship
Sparked by the passage of a recent Wisconsin law, a House joint subcommittee met last week to discuss the limits of free speech on college campuses. The law in question would allow administrators to suspend or even...