A federal appeals court ended a Vermont statute that barred state vouchers from funding religious education.As Campus Reform reported in February, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second District granted an injunction requiring Vermont&rsquo;s Dual Enrollment Program to give funds to a student attending a Roman Catholic high school. Previously, the student was denied access to the funds due to the religious nature of her education.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16720"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16720">[RELATED: VICTORY: Federal appeals court rules in favor of Vermont parochial school student]</a>The court confirmed that she was denied access to the program &ldquo;solely because of her school&rsquo;s religious status.&rdquo;On June 2, the <a href="https://adflegal.org/about-us">Alliance Defending Freedom</a> &mdash; the world&rsquo;s &ldquo;largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom&rdquo; &mdash; <a href="https://adfmedia.org/case/ah-v-french">announced</a> that the same court struck down the twenty-one-year-old law entirely.The court&rsquo;s <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/AH-MandamusOpinion.pdf">opinion</a> said that the Supreme Court reminded states four years ago that it &ldquo;has repeatedly confirmed that denying a generally available benefit solely on account of religious identity imposes a penalty on the free exercise of religion that can be justified only by a state interest of the highest order.&rdquo; Accordingly, &ldquo;a state cannot justify discrimination against religious schools and students by invoking an &lsquo;interest in separating church and State more fiercely than the Federal Constitution.&rsquo;&rdquo;In a statement from the ADF, legal counsel Paul Schmitt celebrated the court&rsquo;s ruling: &ldquo;Today the court powerfully affirmed the principle that people of faith deserve equal access to public benefits everyone else gets.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17297"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17297"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17297">[RELATED: Student who says he was BANNED FROM CAMPUS after questioning microaggressions is suing in federal court]</a>&ldquo;Once Vermont chose to subsidize private education, it could not disqualify some private schools solely because they are &lsquo;too religious,&rsquo;&rdquo; he remarked. &ldquo;For too long, Vermont unconstitutionally forced families to choose between exercising their religion or enjoying a publicly available benefit.&rdquo;Schmitt told Campus Reform that the Supreme Court has now made clear that &ldquo;governments cannot deny religious schools or their students access to public benefits programs just because the schools are religious.&rdquo; Based on Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer and other cases argued by the ADF, &ldquo;the government cannot punish families and take away their benefits just because they choose religious schools.&rdquo;&ldquo;Nearly twenty current Rice Memorial High School students now have access to the tuition program because of the Second Circuit&rsquo;s intervention,&rdquo; Schmitt added. &ldquo;And because the Court of Appeals has stopped school districts from discriminating, many more families are inquiring about sending their children to the school. Although the precise number of students cannot be known, we can safely say that countless families&rsquo; lives have been impacted by the more than two decades of religious discrimination in Vermont.&rdquo; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

A federal court struck down a Vermont law that prevented state vouchers from funding religious education.

UPDATE: Federal court scraps law excluding religious students from Vermont voucher program

VIDEO: Students say the American flag symbolizes oppression

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign could start considering faculty members&rsquo; devotion to &ldquo;diversity, equity, and inclusion&rdquo; when offering promotions.The Office of the Provost recently announced that the &ldquo;promotion and tenure process for tenure-stream faculty members&rdquo; will serve to &ldquo;reflect the evolving strategic priorities and current practices&rdquo; of the university. Three &ldquo;Task Forces&rdquo; &mdash; including the &ldquo;Task Force on the Revision of Promotion and Tenure Guidelines&rdquo; &mdash; released a proposed update to <a href="https://comm9revisions.illinois.edu/">Communication #9</a>, the school&rsquo;s primary source for information on its tenure policy.An FAQ <a href="https://comm9revisions.illinois.edu/faq/">page</a> from the site addresses the question: &ldquo;Will I be penalized for not doing DEI work?&rdquo;The site informs professors interested in tenure opportunities that although they will &ldquo;not be penalized if they are not doing DEI work,&rdquo; they will &ldquo;still need to prepare the DEI statement so that they can think about what they are already doing around DEI and what they will do in the future.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17492"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17492">[RELATED: Stockton University students must now take two antiracism courses to graduate, costing up to $6700]</a>&ldquo;For faculty who are currently heavily engaged in DEI efforts,&rdquo; continues the statement, &ldquo;this is an opportunity for them to share what they have been doing. Their DEI efforts will be considered as a strength in the evaluation process.&rdquo;According to the university, all faculty will eventually be &ldquo;expected to make DEI efforts,&rdquo; which will &ldquo;be part of the evaluation process.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17318"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17318">[RELATED: Louisiana introduces bill to ban teaching of Critical Race Theory topics like &#39;institutional racism&#39;]</a>Another question &mdash; &ldquo;What if my research is an area that is not relevant to DEI?&rdquo; &mdash; is addressed in the same fashion.&ldquo;Regardless of their area of expertise, all faculty are expected to make efforts toward enhancing DEI,&rdquo; says the university. &ldquo;There are many ways to make DEI efforts &mdash; for example, integrating work by scholars from groups historically marginalized or underrepresented in academia into your curriculum, including and effectively mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in your research group, and attending workshops to develop your DEI work so that it is more effective. How individual faculty decide to make efforts toward enhancing DEI will vary.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to the University of Illinois; this article will be updated with any response.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Jess__Custodio">@Jess__Custodio</a>

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign might weigh faculty members’ efforts toward 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' when offering tenure.

Promotions at University of Illinois might depend on professors' devotion to DEI 

Conservative and Liberal Student Organizations:Conservative Organizations:&nbsp;Turning Point USA, Young Americans for Freedom, Young Americans for Liberty, Students for Life, Network of Enlightened Women, Students for Concealed Carry On Campus, and College Republicans at Virginia TechLiberal Organizations:&nbsp;Young Leftists, Young Democratic Socialists of America, United Feminist Movement, and Young Democrats at Virginia Tech.OpenSecrets Data on Virginia Tech Employee Political Donations:&nbsp;96.10%&nbsp;of Virginia Tech employee donations have been towards Democratic campaigns, while only 3.90% of employee donations have been to Republican candidates, according to data from <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/virginia-tech-university/recipients?id=D000030848">OpenSecrets</a>.Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:Virginia Tech has a <a href="https://www.thefire.org/schools/virginia-polytechnic-institute-and-state-university/">yellow light</a> rating. According to FIRE, &quot;Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application.&quot;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//176222zwDemocrat.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii">Stories by Campus Reform about Virginia Tech:<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16888">Virginia Tech uses federal COVID aid money to refund students $100 &nbsp;</a>Virginia Tech is using federal aid money to refund students their transportation fee for Blacksburg Transportation, the local bus system.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9934">RAs forced to attend LGBTQ event</a>Residential Advisors at Virginia Tech were forced to attend an LGBTQ event on-campus and take a photo or they would face consequences for their absence.&nbsp;Stories about professors at Virginia Tech:<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16018">Virginia Tech. prof says phrase &#39;American people&#39; is racist, so is beer</a>Virginia Tech Sociology Professor, David L. Brunsma, has claimed that beer and the phrase &ldquo; the American people&rdquo; are racist.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5787">Virginia Tech professor compares Israel to extremist Islamic group ISIS</a>Steven Salaita, English professor at Virginia Tech, stated that &ldquo;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hashtag_click">#Israel</a> and<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISIS?src=hashtag_click">&nbsp;#ISIS</a> are but two prongs of the same violent ethnonationalism.&rdquo; in a tweet.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16947">Teaching assistant docks point on conservative student&#39;s Black Panther essay: &lsquo;White people cannot experience racism&rsquo;</a>After asking why she received a low grade for her essay on separatism in an International Studies course, a Virginia Tech student was told that &ldquo;white people cannot experience racism.&rdquo;&nbsp;Stories about questionable policies at Virginia Tech:<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17212">Virginia Tech faces new lawsuit over alleged free speech violations</a>Speech First filed a lawsuit against Virginia Tech in April 2021 on the basis of infringements of the first and fourteenth amendments, including the bias response team.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17270">Virginia Tech claims to follow the science on COVID...but it does just the opposite</a>After announcing that they would be following new Virginia COVID mandate lifts, Virginia Tech revoked its statement and expressed that it would be upholding previous indoor restrictions.

CAMPUS PROFILE: Virginia Tech University

Late night host Bill Maher spent a monologue railing against the university system in the United States.&ldquo;Now that graduation season has ended and we won&rsquo;t be spoiling anyone&rsquo;s big day, let&rsquo;s talk about what higher education in America really is: a racket that sells you a very expensive ticket to the upper middle class&rdquo; opened the comedian&#39;s &ldquo;Real Time with Bill Maher&rdquo; episode on June 4.&nbsp; <blockquote>Is it really liberal for someone who doesn&#39;t go to college and makes less money to pay for people who do go and make more? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LiberalGrift?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LiberalGrift</a> <a href="https://t.co/aF1cNZ0CZF">pic.twitter.com/aF1cNZ0CZF</a>&mdash; Bill Maher (@billmaher) <a href="https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1401035004579225600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2021</a></blockquote> Maher ripped President Biden&rsquo;s American Families Plan for asking taxpayers to &ldquo;pony up hundreds of billions&rdquo; for free college proposals. He noted that liberals &ldquo;see more school the way Republicans see tax cuts as the answer to everything.&rdquo;Maher asserted that due to their regressive nature, free college proposals contribute to income inequality and other areas of concern for the Democrats. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17009"></a><a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17009">[RELATED: Universities make out like bandits with Biden&#39;s $1.9 trillion COVID package]</a>&ldquo;I know free college is a left-wing thing, but is it really liberal for someone who doesn&rsquo;t go to college and makes less money to pay for people who do go and make more?&rdquo; he asked.&ldquo;Colleges have turned into giant luxury daycare centers with overpaid babysitters anxious to indulge every student&#39;s whim,&rdquo; Maher continued. As examples, he cited luxury water parts at Texas Tech, the fact that one-third of college students report studying for less than five hours per week, and courses that fixate on the topic of racism &mdash; or, in Maher&rsquo;s words, &ldquo;You Owe Me an Apology 101.&rdquo;Pointing out that the percentage of college students who receive A&rsquo;s has increased from 15 percent to 45 percent in the last six decades, Maher quipped that grade inflation is not due to college students &ldquo;getting smarter.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17269"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17269">[RELATED: POLL: Over 40% of Harvard profs say that school&#39;s standing is worsening]</a>Maher also decried the heavy financial burden levied upon students and professionals by universities, which serve as gatekeepers to most industries.&ldquo;In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church famously sold indulgences, which were just tickets to Heaven that you could buy,&rdquo; continued Maher. &ldquo;Well, now another priesthood of academia sells a different ticket to heaven, and because it&rsquo;s so necessary, colleges can charge whatever they want.&rdquo; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

Maher also called American universities in America 'a racket that sells you a very expensive ticket to the upper middle class.'

Bill Maher criticizes campus liberals, American university system in scathing monologue

Less than three months after Howard Bauchner, editor-in-chief of Journal of the American Medical Association,&nbsp;accepted a subordinate&#39;s resignation for questioning whether racism is embedded in American society, he is stepping down after publicly doubting the notion of &quot;structural racism.&quot;In a June 1 <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-announces-transition-jama-editorial-leadership">statement</a>, the American Medical Association announced that Bauchner would step down by the end of the month.Bauchner declared that he took &ldquo;responsibility&rdquo; for the comments after a tweet promoting the podcast episode stated that &ldquo;no physician is racist.&rdquo;<blockquote>Thread on <a href="https://twitter.com/JAMA_current?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JAMA_current</a>: (JAMA has complete editorial independence from AMA so this would not come to me or my team for review) The podcast/tweet are/were wrong, absolutely appalling &amp; at its very core is a demonstration of structural &amp; institutional racism. I am furious. 1/ <a href="https://t.co/o82H8dgR5v">pic.twitter.com/o82H8dgR5v</a>&mdash; Dr. Aletha Maybank (@DrAlethaMaybank) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrAlethaMaybank/status/1367501829433683968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2021</a></blockquote> <blockquote>Statement from Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief JAMA and The JAMA Network <a href="https://t.co/A1AJNnMWB4">pic.twitter.com/A1AJNnMWB4</a>&mdash; JAMA (@JAMA_current) <a href="https://twitter.com/JAMA_current/status/1367546743789862912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2021</a></blockquote> Campus Reform earlier reported that Deputy Editor Edward Livingston resigned in March after making the controversial claims on the publication&#39;s podcast. At the time, Livingston directed his resignation to Bauchner. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17190&utm_campaign=CampusWire&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=120501613&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_6JevV2hJO_4BRWDgAYTy0HAn-EZQRNqGc8Y_xcUbqj8lwdQX7q0fSpf4aGUJbd5utk89AXnXYqgbIT3JHOoREtIYp3A&utm_content=120501613&utm_source=hs_email"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17190&utm_campaign=CampusWire&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=120501613&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_6JevV2hJO_4BRWDgAYTy0HAn-EZQRNqGc8Y_xcUbqj8lwdQX7q0fSpf4aGUJbd5utk89AXnXYqgbIT3JHOoREtIYp3A&utm_content=120501613&utm_source=hs_email">[RELATED: Medical journal forces out editor who questioned &#39;structural racism.&rsquo; Professors rejoice.]</a>This month&#39;s statement included an apology from Bauchner: &ldquo;I remain profoundly disappointed in myself for the lapses that led to the publishing of the tweet and podcast. Although I did not write or even see the tweet, or create the podcast, as editor-in-chief, I am ultimately responsible for them.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16395">[RELATED: American Medical Association declares racism a &lsquo;public health threat&rsquo;]</a>&ldquo;I share and have always supported the AMA&rsquo;s commitment to dismantling structural racism in the institutions of American medicine,&rdquo; Bauchner continued, &ldquo;as evident by numerous publications in JAMA on this issue and related subjects, and look forward to personally contributing to that work going forward.&rdquo;Bauchner had served as editor-in-chief of JAMA since 2011.Campus Reform asked the American Medical Association whether the group told Bauchner to draft the second apology message. Spokesman Robert Mills acknowledged receipt of the question and refused to comment.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

The journal's deputy editor resigned in March for similar comments. 

UPDATE: Second resignation this year at presitigious medical journal after editor questions woke anti-racist narratives

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) were guest speakers &nbsp;at &ldquo;<a href="https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/ayanna-pressley-elizabeth-warren-to-headline-forum-on-antiracism-as-health-policy/">Antiracism as Health Policy: Race, COVID-19, and Policy Reform</a>,&quot; a virtual forum from April 5-7 at Boston University with <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Ibram X. Kendi.&nbsp;&ldquo;The work of anti-racism must be embedded in our work every single day,&rdquo; Rep. Pressley <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd_DMTaIH40">explained</a> to Kendi during the second part of the lecture series.As explained on Boston University&#39;s website, the event intended to &ldquo;examine the deep-rooted racial disparities in health that have been exposed and exacerbated by the pandemic and discuss how to best address racial inequities through research, policy, and action.&rdquo;<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yd_DMTaIH40"></iframe>Rep. Pressley stated that the health disparities between her Black and White constituents &ldquo;did not happen by chance.&rdquo; Rather, they were created by &ldquo;policy violence.&rdquo; Therefore, modern lawmakers must be &ldquo;every bit as prescriptive, precise, and intentional in legislating justice, and legislating equity, and legislating healing.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17170">[RELATED: Ibram Kendi brings his &#39;antiracist book festival&#39; back to BU]</a>Warren examined the legacy of &ldquo;generations of structural racism&rdquo; in the medical system.<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Em-pDfZlRQU"></iframe>&ldquo;I think that it&rsquo;s just finally time for us to acknowledge the health impact of structural racism,&rdquo; said Sen. Warren. &ldquo;And that means treat structural racism like we would treat any other public health problem or disease. That means invest into research, into its incidence, into symptoms, into causes, and finding ways to treat and to cure it.&rdquo;&ldquo;We know that there is a public health impact of racism,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s time for us now to say that openly and begin to make real change.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17456">[RELATED: New Hampshire universities defend their ability to teach Critical Race Theory]</a>Kendi referred listeners to Sen. Warren&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4533/text">Anti-Racism in Public Health Act</a> which, as Sen. Warren explained, is meant to address &ldquo;racial disparities in health outcomes&rdquo; at the federal level to override &ldquo;fifty-one different public health, state-level systems&rdquo; that create inconsistencies in reporting race-related data.Campus Reform reached out to Boston University, Rep. Pressley, and Sen. Warren for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

Ibram X. Kendi also discussed Sen. Warren's 'Anti-Racism in Public Health Act of 2020.'

Warren and Pressley make charges of 'policy violence,'  'public health impact of racism' at Kendi's CRT forum 

<a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/"></a> <a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/"></a><a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/">Dr. Carol Anderson</a>, chair of Emory University&rsquo;s Black Studies Department and author of such works as &quot;White Rage&rdquo;, recently published a new book where she argues that &quot;[the Second Amendment] was designed and has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable.&quot; The book, &quot;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Second-Race-Fatally-Unequal-America/dp/1635574250">The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America</a>,&quot; was released on June 1 by Bloomsbury. In an <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/30/us/second-amendment-guns-anti-black-anderson-blake/index.html?__twitter_impression=true">interview</a> with CNN on May 30, Anderson said that the 2016 shooting of Philando Castile initially inspired her to begin work on the volume. Later in that interview, Anderson attributes the lack of firearm restrictions following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting to an &ldquo;underlying fear that if there are real gun safety laws then Whites will be left defenseless against these Black people.&rdquo; &ldquo;Here was a Black man who was pulled over by police,&rdquo; Anderson said of the shooting &ldquo;who followed NRA guidelines in letting the police officer know that he had a license to carry a weapon. And that led to Philando Castile being shot dead.&rdquo; Anderson went on to criticize the National Rifle Association for not issuing a sufficiently strong statement on the shooting.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17515"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17515"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17515">[RELATED: &lsquo;Jim Crow 2.0&rsquo;: Emory faculty outraged at new election reform bill]</a> Anderson <a href="https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/the-second">claims</a> on her website that the work is neither &ldquo;pro-gun&rdquo; nor &ldquo;anti-gun&rdquo; but rather seeks to explore the &ldquo;citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans.&rdquo; The book description <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Second-Race-Fatally-Unequal-America/dp/1635574250">states</a> that &ldquo;the right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep African Americans powerless&rdquo; and that &ldquo;measures to expand and curtail gun ownership [are] aimed disproportionately at the African American population.&rdquo; &ldquo;Blackness, it would seem, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished&rdquo; the description continues. In an NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment">interview</a> regarding the book, Anderson argues that the founders of the United States were motivated to arm White citizens, fearing a slave rebellion similar to the one that occurred in Haiti some years prior.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13534"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13534"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13534">[RELATED: Journalism school prof: &#39;I&#39;m sick to death of the Second Amendment...&#39;]</a>While left-leaning media including the New Yorker&nbsp;and&nbsp;The New York Times&nbsp;have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/books/review/the-second-carol-anderson.html">praised</a> Anderson&#39;s book, not all reactions have been positive. A member of the Emory College Republicans, who has requested to remain anonymous for fear of reputational damages, disagreed with many of Anderson&rsquo;s conclusions. Addressing the impetus behind Anderson&rsquo;s book, the student pointed out that Philando Castille &ldquo;did not comply with [the] officer,&rdquo; and was &ldquo;reaching for [an] unknown object.&rdquo; The College Republican also took issue with Anderson claiming White people oppose gun control out of fear of Black violence. &ldquo;Anderson is literally implying the logical conclusion of the racial conflict theory she professes: A race war. This is a disgusting point of view,&rdquo; the student stated. In addition to this, they claimed Anderson is hypocritical for both a California law that prohibits open-carry and a Texas law that allows it universally.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15415"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15415"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15415">[RELATED: Prof: &#39;The Constitution is racist&#39;]</a> &ldquo;Dr. Anderson is gravely mistaken,&rdquo; the student continued. &ldquo;She espouses and teaches critical and conflict theories in their racial derivations, which are descended from Marxist class-conflict theory.&rdquo; At the time of publication, Anderson has not responded to&nbsp;Campus Reform&rsquo;s request for comment.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/RobertSchmad" style=" text-align: start;">@RobertSchmad</a>

Repressing slave revolts and ensuring Blacks remained oppressed post-emancipation, Anderson argues, were motivating factors behind support for the Second Amendment. 

Emory Professor: The Second Amendment 'was designed' to keep 'African Americans powerless and vulnerable' 

Dr. Brandi Adams is a newly-hired assistant professor at Arizona State University and has already recommended a summer reading based on Critical Race Theory.&nbsp;&quot;Right now, I&rsquo;m working on a chapter for a collected volume on the relationship between premodern critical race theory and book and reading history,&rdquo; Adams said in an <a href="https://news.asu.edu/20210520-creativity-add-your-summer-reading-list-insight-new-asu-professor">interview</a> with the university.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17608">[RELATED: Albion College makes Kendi&#39;s &lsquo;How to Be an Antiracist&rsquo; required reading for first-year students]</a>Adams&#39; recommendations, which she enumerated in the interview, include: American Spy, by Lauren Wilkinson; the Broken Earth series, by N. K. Jemisin;&nbsp;Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee; and&nbsp;The Old Drift, by Namwali Serpell.ASU brought on Adams as part of a &quot;<a href="https://news.asu.edu/20210309-5-new-faculty-join-asus-department-english-arizona-center-medieval-and-renaissance-studies">cluster hire</a>&quot; that the school touted for the new professors&#39; ethnic backgrounds.&nbsp;ASU&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ayannathompson.com/raceb4race">Ayanna Thompson</a>, a professor of English, coordinated the cluster hire.&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&ldquo;With the five BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) scholars joining our seven other early modernists, ASU will have the strongest Shakespeare program in the country,&rdquo; Thompson said to the ASU website.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17569">[RELATED: New anti-racism requirements coming for Cornell University students and faculty]</a>Thompson also spearheads <a href="https://acmrs.asu.edu/RaceB4Race" style=" text-align: left;">RaceB4Race</a>, an &quot;ongoing conference series&quot; at the university &quot;for scholars of color working on issues of race in premodern literature, history, and culture.&quot; The website also states that &quot;RaceB4Race centers the expertise, perspectives, and sociopolitical interests of BIPOC scholars, whose work seeks to expand critical race theory.&quot;Campus Reform reached out to Dr. Adams and ASU for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.

The new professor is 'working on a chapter for a collected volume on the relationship between premodern critical race theory and book and reading history.'

Critical Race Theory motivates summer reading list, 'cluster hire' at ASU 

Amid pressure from LGBTQ activists, the U.S. Department of Justice amended a court filing stating they would &quot;vigorously&rdquo;&nbsp;defend religious school&#39;s exemption from laws which allow religious schools that are, in part, funded by the government to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals.The new filing, as the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/06/09/biden-justice-lgbtq-lesbian-gay-christian-college-university-bostock-equality-act/">Washington Post&nbsp;</a>reported on Wednesday, the DOJ removed &quot;vigorously&quot; as a term to describe their approach to defending the exemption, but kept the usage of the word &quot;adequate&quot; to describe their approach.&nbsp;&quot;The Department of Justice, which is responsible for defending federal statutes in court, will adequately defend against the legal challenges the Religious Exemption and its application,&quot; the updated <a href="https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/6dabb638-b538-46ee-b90c-ccd25e325b70/note/ab56eb4e-59cc-443e-9f0f-a25d9e5427f3.#page=1">filing&nbsp;</a>states.According to The Post, the move shows that the Joe Biden administration possibly exerted their force on the Department of Justice to remove the language.<a href="https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/115fbd13-ca87-4b50-94c8-820afea69daa/note/0372d954-88c4-4fb5-9567-ac0b25e0973f.#page=1">Hunter v. the U.S. Department of Education</a>, as <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17173">Campus Reform</a> reported in March, includes 40 students who are suing the U.S. Department of Education with the goal of putting an &quot;end to the U.S. Department of Education&rsquo;s complicity in the abuses and unsafe conditions thousands of LGBTQ+ students endure at hundreds of taxpayer-funded, religious colleges and universities.&rdquo;Under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, religious education institutions are exempt from anti-discrimination laws; therefore the DOJ has to step in to defend them. However, this prevents religious institutions from entering the lawsuit themselves.&nbsp;The Council of Christian Colleges and Universities previously said in a<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/cccu-intervention-motion-filed/c8c0b51f-9f3e-4687-84a3-4d6dad0cbf7d/?itid=lk_inline_manual_20">&nbsp;May motion</a> that they could not trust the Biden administration to defend the schools&rsquo; beliefs and &ldquo;may be openly hostile to them.&rdquo;&nbsp;According to the article, Shirley Hoogstra, president of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, said that she was relieved at the DOJ&#39;s filing, as it signals that the government will defend religious exemptions. However, she said that Christian schools that could be impacted by the lawsuit should have their own representative present during hearings.

 An amended DOJ court filing on anti-LGBTQ discrimination laws  removed 'vigorously' from a previous submitted version.

Biden's DOJ walks back intent to 'vigorously' defend religious school exemptions in  anti-LGBTQ discrimination laws 

VIDEO: 1776 Commission vice-chair sounds the alarm on teaching revisionist history in schools

The term &ldquo;Caucasian&rdquo; is now facing cancel culture, thanks to Columbia University.&nbsp;The Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University released&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vagelos.columbia.edu/education/academic-programs/md-program/curriculum/guidelines-promoting-anti-bias-and-inclusive-curriculum">guidelines</a>&nbsp;to promote &ldquo;an anti-bias and inclusive curriculum&rdquo; that encourages people to refrain from using the term &ldquo;Caucasian&rdquo; to describe a White person.&nbsp;&quot;Eliminating the use of outdated and imprecise terms, e.g., &#39;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/13/the-long-history-and-slow-death-of-a-word-used-to-describe-everyone-from-turks-to-the-chinese/">Oriental</a>&#39; to describe an Asian person or &#39;Caucasian&#39; to describe a white person,&quot; the guidelines state.This is not the first time that higher education has targeted the term.&nbsp;In 2020, <a href="https://med.umn.edu/bio/med-ed-faculty-advisors/andrea-westby">Andrea Westby</a>, an&nbsp;assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota, wrote an&nbsp;<a href="https://med.umn.edu/news-events/time-phase-out-caucasian">article</a>&nbsp;titled &quot;Time to Phase Out &#39;Caucasian.&#39;&quot; The Columbia University guidelines link to Westby&#39;s article, in which she argues that &ldquo;literally speaking, &lsquo;Caucasian&rsquo; refers to people from the Caucasus mountain region, which includes Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, parts of north Iran, and central southern Russia.&quot;&nbsp;Westby also said in the article that by using &quot;Caucasian&quot; to describe White people, society is &ldquo;prioritizing [the] comfort of White people.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to Westby for comment in an email. She replied, stating that &ldquo;&lsquo;Caucasian&rsquo; is a historically and geographically inaccurate descriptor for White people, so it would be preferable to use &quot;white&quot; or specific geographically correct ancestry terms (Euro-American, etc).&rdquo;Such critiques are neither rare nor new among scholars.&nbsp;Carol Mukhopadhyay, whom Westby references, wrote a 2008 book&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sjsu.edu/people/carol.mukhopadhyay/papers/Getting-Rid-of-the-Word-Caucasian.pdf">chapter</a>&nbsp;titled &quot;Getting Rid of the Word &#39;Caucasian&#39;&quot; that argues term &quot;erases&quot; the &quot;ancestry, cultural traditions, and experiences&quot; of those from the Caucuses.&nbsp;More recently, Susan Rinderle, a consultant that Westby also cites, <a href="https://www.workforce.com/news/6-reasons-not-say-caucasian" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">claimed</a> in 2014 that &quot;at its root, &lsquo;Caucasian&rsquo; is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/sunday-review/has-caucasian-lost-its-meaning.html?_r=0">a pseudo scientific term used to create distance</a> from race discussion or racial identification.&rdquo;Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mukhopadhyay, and Rinderle but did not receive a response in time for publication.&nbsp; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/opheliejacobson">@opheliejacobson</a>

Professors and researchers across disciplines have criticized the term, arguing it is imprecise and problematic. 

Columbia University: Don't call White people 'Caucasian'

A federal government child education program hosted a group of professors to discuss &ldquo;anti-racism.&quot;Head Start, a program of the Department of Health and Human Services, &ldquo;<a href="https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/">Early Childhood Learning &amp; Knowledge Center</a>&rdquo; produced a webinar series entitled &ldquo;Advancing Racial and Ethnic Equity&rdquo; in the fall of 2020. The lectures&rsquo; goal was to promote &ldquo;anti-bias and anti-racism strategies Head Start and Early Head Start programs can use in their practices, services, and systems.&rdquo;Over 3,000 Head Start staff members <a href="https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/video/transcripts/002392-cdie-spotlight-on-hr-systems.pdf">registered</a> for the lectures, according to a transcript of the event.<iframe src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/511158467/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-vYa6fKsbaV0HQXvsBS45"></iframe> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17388"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17388">[RELATED: San Diego State researcher runs &lsquo;anti-racist&rsquo; day care]</a>Among other guest speakers were Emory University public health professor <a href="https://sph.emory.edu/faculty/profile/index.php?FID=camara-jones-8843">Camara Jones</a>, University of North Carolina assistant diversity director <a href="https://fpg.unc.edu/people/jenille-adams-morgan">Jenille Morgan</a>, and California State University-Long Beach child development professor <a href="http://web.csulb.edu/colleges/chhs/departments/fcs/docs/TAndersonwebpagebio.pdf">Treshawn Anderson</a>.Morgan and Anderson&rsquo;s <a href="https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/video/attachments/anti-bias-teaching-learning-environments-slides.pdf">presentation</a> discussed ways in which educators could promote &ldquo;racial equity in early childhood systems.&rdquo; Employees were encouraged to apply a &ldquo;racial equity/economic justice lens&rdquo; to their practices while recognizing that &ldquo;structural arrangements are interconnected and resist change.&rdquo;Debunking the &ldquo;myth&rdquo; that &ldquo;children are colorblind&rdquo; and &ldquo;do not see race,&rdquo; the presentation declared that &ldquo;race is one of the earliest emerging social categories&rdquo; for newborn babies.Teachers were therefore told that &ldquo;anti-bias early learning environments begin with you!&rdquo;The presentation listed &ldquo;four core goals of anti-bias education&rdquo; &mdash; &ldquo;identity,&rdquo; &ldquo;diversity,&rdquo; &ldquo;justice,&rdquo; and &ldquo;activism.&rdquo;In the final <a href="https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/video/attachments/health-disparities-responding-lens-race-ethnicity-slides.pdf">presentation</a>, Jones, who formerly served as president of the American Public Health Association &mdash; asserted in a video shown in the webinar that &ldquo;health inequities are not accidental.&rdquo;To describe this reality, Jones <a href="https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/video/transcripts/002441-health-disparities-race-ethnicity.pdf">used</a> the analogy of preventing people from plummeting off a cliff. She explained that resources are not always equally available: &ldquo;At some parts of the cliff, the ambulance at the bottom may have a flat tire, or maybe there&#39;s no ambulance there at all. Maybe there&#39;s no net nor fence. And usually at those parts of the cliff, the people are being pushed closer to the edge.&rdquo;Jones exhorted attendees to &ldquo;recognize and dismantle racism, sexism, and the other big systems that assign value and structure opportunity in ways that undermine some groups more than others but hurt us all.&rdquo;Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to Head Start, Morgan, Anderson, and Jones; this article will be updated with any comment. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

The 3,000 attendees were encouraged to apply a 'racial equity/economic justice lens' to their work. 

Federal government hosted professors' talks on anti-racist education for young children

Amherst College has hired an outside consulting firm to analyze the need for armed police on its campuses.The <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2021/05/25/amherst-college-hires-consulting-group-to-study-ca.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_22&cx_artPos=4#cxrecs_s">Boston Business Journal</a>&nbsp;reported that&nbsp;Amherst College President Carolyn &quot;Biddy&quot; Martin is reconsidering &quot;what campus safety should look like&quot; at the school. This decision comes after hundreds of students <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20210428145415/https://www.amherststudent.com/article/students-walk-out-in-protest-after-police-killing-of-daunte-wright-aas-and-bsu-demand-abolition-of-acpd">marched</a> in support of abolishing the police.Amherst&#39;s <a href="https://www.amherst.edu/news/news_releases/2021/4-2021/students-hold-three-hour-black-minds-matter-protest?fbclid=IwAR0bfFBHFsH9fx-8HsqVTnVzMSvWQmljHFYSltE7Ok3WTrIschNdfnva8vU">Black Student Union</a> organized the April 13 protest and later demanded that the college abolish its police department, a move also supported by the Amherst Association of Students.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17440">[RELATED: Pomona College student government passes resolution supporting the defunding of clubs supporting Israel]</a>&nbsp;Martin released a <a href="https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/president/statements/node/799957">letter</a> on May 10 stating that &quot;for many, particularly Black and Brown students, the presence of armed officers creates anxiety and distress.&quot;&ldquo;We will be doing a lot of work on that throughout the summer,&rdquo; wrote the president. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17470"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17470">[RELATED: Ralph Northam signs bill forcing some Virginia universities to start reparations scholarships]</a>The upcoming summer work follows Amherst&#39;s 2020 &quot;<a href="https://www.amherst.edu/news/antiracism/anti-racism-plan-new">Anti-Racism Plan</a>,&quot; a college project to redirect funds away from the campus police department and to &quot;student staff&quot; and &quot;mental health services.&quot;&nbsp;Amherst announced an update to the plan on its website this past March. The college stated that a &ldquo;new group of non-armed Community Service Officers (CSOs) will be created to perform much of the public safety, security, and service work with funds shifted over a reasonable period of time to the CSO program.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to Amherst College who have not commented yet.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ajmunguia23">@ajmunguia23</a>

The college has already directed funds away from its police department as part of a year-long project. 

Amherst College is considering student groups' call to abolish police department 

The Gates Foundation gave Brown University nearly $1 million to fund a tutoring program embracing the concepts of &ldquo;implicit bias,&rdquo; &ldquo;systemic racism,&rdquo; and &ldquo;privilege.&rdquo;The Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/2021/06/02/gates-foundation-grants-annenberg-institute-999260/">received</a>&nbsp;$999,260 from the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates&#39; nonprofit in May. The funds are designate for the university&#39;s National Student Support Accelerator initiative.&nbsp;Brown University <a href="https://www.annenberginstitute.org/news/national-student-support-accelerator">announced</a> the National Student Support Accelerator in November 2020 as a <a href="https://studentsupportaccelerator.com/sites/default/files/Toolkit_for_Tutoring_Programs_0.pdf">toolkit</a> for K-12 tutoring during the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp;Among the toolkit&#39;s guidelines are suggested criteria for tutors&#39; comprehension of systemic racism and antiracist theory. The document states that tutor &quot;candidate pool[s] should reflect the backgrounds of the students being served&quot; as well as an &quot;acknowledgement of intrinsic bias&quot; among hired tutors. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17311"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17311">[RELATED: George Soros gives $500 million to tiny college]</a> The Gates Foundation is active in supporting campus initiatives with social justice bents. For instance, the organization gave $1 million to &ldquo;A Pathway to Equitable Instruction&rdquo; &mdash; an initiative from several universities and local governments to address &ldquo;barriers to math equity&rdquo; by offering resources to &quot;develop an anti-racist math practice.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16895"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16895"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16895">[RELATED: 2+2=5? Bill Gates funnels $1 MILLION to push &#39;math is racist&#39; narrative]</a> Likewise, the Gates Foundation gave American University $150,000 to create &ldquo;antiracist&rdquo; learning environments across the United States.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15825"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15825"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15825">[RELATED: AU receives $1.1 million from Bill Gates Foundation, others for &lsquo;antiracist&rsquo; learning]</a> The Gates Foundation has also extensively <a href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database">funded</a> teacher&rsquo;s unions and left-leaning think tanks such as the Center for American Progress. Campus Reform reached out to the Gates Foundation and Brown University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

Brown is among several schools and liberal organizations that the Gates Foundation has funded. 

Gates Foundation funds Brown University's K-12 tutoring initiative that presses 'implicit bias,' 'systemic racism,' 'privilege'

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed new bills into law on June 7 that target Chinese influence in the Florida education system.The bills, <a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/7017">HB7017</a> and <a href="https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1523">HB1523</a>, take aim at corporate espionage, criminal activity, and foreign influence. As Campus Refrom&nbsp;reported earlier this year,&nbsp;a professor University of Florida received $1.8 million while hiding his ties with the <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16780">Chinese Government</a> and a separate case of a <a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2020/09/15/jacksonville-woman-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-smuggling-to-china/">Jacksonville</a> woman.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17590"></a><a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17371">[RELATED: Analysis finds that Penn raises 26% of its foreign contributions from Chinese sources]</a>Gov. DeSantis <a href="https://thefloridachannel.org/videos/6-7-21-signing-of-hb-1523-hb-7017/">stated</a> that &ldquo;All we are doing today is saying, Enough is enough. We&rsquo;ve got to start fighting back and so the state of Florida is doing that.&quot;Christina Pushaw, the governor&#39;s press secretary, told Campus Reform&nbsp;that &ldquo;The CCP and its collaborators have no place in Florida&rsquo;s universities, or really, anywhere in Florida. This legislation effectively bans &#39;Confucius Institutes&#39; from operating in Florida.&quot;A <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2021/06/07/governor-ron-desantis-signs-groundbreaking-legislation-to-combat-theft-of-floridas-intellectual-property-by-foreign-countries/">press release</a> from the office of Gov. DeSantis states that the bills requires &ldquo;universities and colleges to disclose foreign donations and grants of $50,000 or more to the State University System Board of Governors or Department of Education&rdquo; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11182"></a><a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17541">[RELATED:EXCLUSIVE: Contracts reveal US universities &#39;must&#39; accept CCP&rsquo;s &#39;assessment&#39; on &#39;teaching quality&#39; at Confucius Institutes]</a>The laws aim to vet all entities in Florida including states, corporations, and universities. In 2019, the last Confucius Institute in Florida was <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2019/09/06/miami-dade-college-is-shutting-down-its-confucius-institute-1174166">shut down</a> at Miami Dade College.&nbsp;At the announcement of the bill signing, State Representative Erin Grall stated &ldquo;Colleges, universities and public entities in Florida must be held to a high standard of disclosure and transparency when they are accepting gifts &mdash; especially from a foreign adversary,&rdquo; according to the press release. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ajmunguia23">@ajmunguia23</a>

Spokesperson for the governor stated that 'this legislation effectively bans 'Confucius Institutes' from operating in Florida.'

Florida Governor DeSantis signs two bills to curb Chinese influence on American higher ed 

The Florida State Board of Education is expected to pass <a href="http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/19958/urlt/7-1.PDF" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a rule</a> today that will ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory at the K-12 level. Several professors are opposing the measure, saying that students should be taught Critical Race Theory before they even arrive on campus.&nbsp;The rule being considered today is part of Gov. DeSantis&#39; larger push against Critical Race Theory at all levels.Per <a href="https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/desantis-hopes-to-block-critical-race-theory-from-florida-classroooms">WTXL Pensacola</a>, DeSantis said at a press conference in late May,&nbsp;<blockquote>&quot;&quot;When they try to look back and denigrate the founding fathers, denigrate the American Revolution, doing all these different things that even very liberal historians say is not supported by the facts. So, I think what we need is we need the constitution back in classrooms, we need to make sure civics is a priority, but it needs to be taught accurately. It needs to be taught in a fact-based way, not an ideological-based way...If we have to play whack-a-mole all over this state stopping Critical Race Theory, we will do it.&quot;</blockquote>Some of the strongest opponents of the rule can be found on college campuses. Dr. Dana Thompson Dorsey, an education professor at the University of South Florida, told the <a href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/state/2021/05/28/desantis-pushes-new-rule-limiting-how-race-taught-florida-schools/7439371002/">Herald-Tribune</a>, &ldquo;Critical race theory has nothing to do with hating America, but has everything to do with being true and honest about the history of the United States.&rdquo; Dr. Dorsey has previously worked with colleges as a racial equity consultant.&nbsp;Professor Michelle Jacobs, who has taught Critical Race Theory at the University of Florida Law School, told&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wcjb.com/2021/03/25/educators-react-to-desantis-civics-plan-excluding-critical-race-theory/">WCJB</a>&nbsp;that understanding civics requires learning about race. However, the rule would not stop any student from learning about race and history. &nbsp;The proposed rule says that classroom instruction must &quot;be factual and objective, and may not&nbsp;suppress or distort significant historical events, such as the Holocaust, and may not define American history as something other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.&quot; The rule also directs teachers to have discussions &quot;appropriate for the age and maturity level of the students.&quot;&nbsp;As Gov. DeSantis plays &quot;whack-a-mole&quot; to stop Critical Race Theory, he will have his work cut out for him in higher education.&nbsp;The University of Miami&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15563" style=" text-align: left;">requires diversity training</a>&nbsp;for all students, as does the&nbsp;<a href="http://statements.ufl.edu/statements/2020/june/another-step-toward-positive-change-against-racism.html" style=" text-align: left;">University of Florida</a>.&nbsp;Miami Dade College&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mdc.edu/asa/documents/competencies/pdf/EDF2085%20Intro%20to%20Diversity.pdf" style=" text-align: left;">teaches future teachers</a>&nbsp;to be &quot;agents of social change&quot; and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mdc.edu/asa/documents/competencies/pdf/CJE2400%20Race%20and%20the%20Criminal%20Justice%20System.pdf" style=" text-align: left;">teaches CRT in the criminal justice program</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://thecenter.fsu.edu/diversity/diversity-inclusion-certificate" style=" text-align: left;">FSU</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usf.edu/business/certificates/diversity-equity-inclusion/index.aspx" style=" text-align: left;">USF</a>&nbsp;both offer certificate programs in diversity, equity, and inclusion - teaching their students to be CRT practitioners.<strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--red); font-weight: 600; font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

Supporters of Critical Race Theory, particularly on college campuses, are opposing Gov. DeSantis' push to end the flow of taxpayer dollars to Critical Race Theory instruction.

Florida education board to ban CRT, with support from Gov. DeSantis and opposition from professors

VIDEO: Students Urge Supreme Court To Side With Student On Campus Free Speech Case

Drawing funds from a program meant to address absenteeism among disadvantaged students, the Oregon Department of Education paid $50,000 to &ldquo;1619 Project&rdquo; founder Nikole Hannah-Jones for two virtual speeches.<a href="https://www.libertyineducation.org/blog/the-oregon-department-of-educationpaid-50k-for-two-nikole-hannah-jones-webinars"></a><a href="https://www.libertyineducation.org/blog/the-oregon-department-of-educationpaid-50k-for-two-nikole-hannah-jones-webinars"></a><a href="https://www.libertyineducation.org/blog/the-oregon-department-of-educationpaid-50k-for-two-nikole-hannah-jones-webinars">Oregonians for Liberty in Education</a> &mdash; a group that works to maintain parental control over schooling in Oregon &mdash; submitted a public records request for the amount that the Oregon Department of Education paid Hannah-Jones for speeches delivered on May 7 and May 13.The event &mdash; &ldquo;<a href="https://www.pdxteachers.org/1619">1619: Centering Black History and Black Futures in Oregon</a>&rdquo; &mdash; lasted for one hour and thirty minutes. The latter event &mdash; &ldquo;<a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORED/bulletins/2d87265">A Discussion with Nikole Hannah-Jones on Centering Black Students and Families</a>&rdquo; &mdash; lasted for two hours.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16123"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16123"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16123">[RELATED: 1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones says American flag outside childhood home &#39;embarrassed&#39; her]</a>Oregonians for Liberty in Education shared with Campus Reform the response from Oregon Department of Education Rules Coordinator Jeremy Wartz to its request. Wartz explained that the agency paid Hannah-Jones $25,000 for each event &mdash; an average wage of over $14,000 per hour of speaking time.Wartz explained that staff members &ldquo;authorized the expenses in line with the goals of the program and given the deep need for focal student groups, including Black students and their families, to feel a sense of connection at this time and to support educators in creating the conditions for culturally responsive pedagogy and practice.&rdquo;However, Wartz acknowledged that the funds paid to Nikole Hannah-Jones came from &ldquo;<a href="https://www.every-day-matters.org/">Every Day Matters</a>&rdquo; &mdash; a program focused on addressing chronic absenteeism among disadvantaged children.&ldquo;Diverting funds from &lsquo;Every Day Matters,&rsquo; ODE&rsquo;s program to provide practical solutions to support showing up for school, is concerning,&rdquo; notes Oregonians for Liberty in Education on its website. &ldquo;The program provides toolkits for teachers and families so at-risk students can connect to services and learn executive function skills and healthy habits. Is ODE claiming kids will skip school until the New York Times is put in charge of curriculum?&rdquo;When asked why they drew funds specifically from Every Day Matters, Oregon Department of Education Communications Director Marc Siegel told Campus Reform that &ldquo;centering the experience of Black students and families helps Black students feel valued, reflects Blacks contribution in American history which creates Black student&rsquo;s sense of belonging in the classroom.&rdquo; Accordingly, &ldquo;feeling welcome in the classroom boosts attendance, which boosts academic performance.&rdquo;&ldquo;At the center of Oregon&rsquo;s work on equity is attention to what it means to belong and to create conditions in school engagement that support student belonging,&rdquo; continued Siegel. &ldquo;The experiences of Black students and families can and must be centered in our state, including the fullness of Black histories and Black futures.&rdquo;Siegel told Campus Reform that &ldquo;385 educators&rdquo; attended the May 7 event; for the programming on May 13, 225 people &mdash; 38 students and parents, as well as 187 educators &mdash; were in attendance.Campus Reform&nbsp;recently reported that the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill hired Hannah-Jones to work as a journalism professor.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17518"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17518"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17518">[RELATED: REPORT: UNC journalism school backs off plan to give tenure to author of debunked &lsquo;1619 Project&rsquo;]</a>Campus Reform revealed that the university is paying Hannah-Jones $180,000 per year.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17529"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17529"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17529"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17529">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Nikole Hannah-Jones UNC offer letter lists $180,000 yearly salary]</a>Campus Reform reached out to Hannah-Jones to ask whether she was aware that the Oregon Department of Education drew her payment from Every Day Matters and whether she accordingly plans to return the funds.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

The agency took the funds from an initiative meant to cut absenteeism among disadvantaged students.

Oregon Dept of Education raided student absentee program funding to pay Nikole Hannah-Jones $50,000

Over 900 students and nearly 100 students groups at Harvard university signed a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1NtNoEeGoHUFPhUJJxhw0EXKJTpC0n9fi_bXrx3YbVYU/mobilebasic">statement</a> condemning Israel for &quot;state-sanctioned violence against Palestinians.&quot;The students expressed &nbsp;&ldquo;outrage at the latest wave of Israeli state-sanctioned violence against Palestinians&quot; in the May 12 document, which contains no mention of Hamas. Alleging that &ldquo;Israel has implemented several forms of hegemonic rule over Palestinian lives&rdquo; since its establishment, the students told their classmates that &ldquo;it is important to challenge the current biased and misleading narrative on Palestine.&rdquo;Rena Nasar First is executive director of campus affairs at StandWithUs, a pro-Israel educational organization. She told Campus Reform, &quot;it is appalling that students at a top institution in the country have resorted to promoting a misinformed and deceitful statement against Israel, the only Jewish state in the world.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17007"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17007"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17007" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students for Justice in Palestine calls for impeachment of pro-Israel Jewish student, backs down after lawyers get involved]</a> Labeling Israel as an &quot;apartheid&quot; state, the letter told students that Harvard &ldquo;likely has billions invested in companies profiting off Israeli apartheid&rdquo; and therefore must make &ldquo;a public statement rebuking Israel&rsquo;s excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians.&rdquo; Nasar First explained that &ldquo;this document is anti-Semitic because it is a deliberate attempt to cover up the genocidal goals and actions of Hamas while only focusing on Israel&#39;s response.&rdquo;&ldquo;By leaving out context, the statement paints a biased and inaccurate caricature of Israel and the conflict,&rdquo; Nasar First remarked. &ldquo;The statement attempts to erase 3,000 years of Jewish indigenous identity in Israel, and denies the Jewish right to self determination. Moreover, this statement fails to acknowledge the genocidal antisemitism of Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization backed by Iran, and their recent firing of over 4,000 rockets indiscriminately targeting Israeli civilians in apartment buildings and kindergartens.&rdquo; Among the groups that signed the statement was the Palestine Caucus at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee, Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, and the Black Student Union.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16849"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16849"></a>Student groups supportive of Palestine often campaign against American economic relations with Israel. At the University of California-Irvine, for example, student government members passed a resolution encouraging the University of California system to cut all ties with firms operating in Israel.&ldquo;History teaches us that violence always begins with words,&rdquo; Nasar First noted. &ldquo;Harvard students must recognize that manipulative and hateful words have consequences.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16997"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16997" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UC-Irvine student gov passes &#39;shameful&#39; new anti-Israel resolution]</a> Campus Reform reached out to Harvard University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

The students pressed Harvard to cut ties from businesses that work with Israel.

Hundreds of Harvard students condemn Israel in statement that omits any mention of Hamas 

<a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RbbCAAS/michele-swers"></a><a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RbbCAAS/michele-swers"></a>A professor at Georgetown University is under fire for using the n-word in an academic context, reading a quote from Clarence Brandenburg, a Ku Klux Klan leader, in reference to the Supreme Court case Brandenburg v. Ohio.<a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RbbCAAS/michele-swers">Michele Swers</a>, an American Government professor at Georgetown University, used the quote during her U.S. Political Systems class, according to <a href="https://thehoya.com/professors-use-of-n-word-in-class-prompts-letter-formal-complaint/">The Hoya</a>.Mirka Sosa, a student in Swers&rsquo; class, told The Hoya&nbsp;that the incident was &quot;harmful&quot; to students.&quot;Professor Swers, as a white person should not say that word at all. This incident was very harmful to many students, especially students of color in this class, and I do not feel like she took full accountability for that,&quot; Sosa said. Georgetown student Liam Downer-Sanderson told Campus Reform that the allegations are baseless.&ldquo;Despite apologizing and removing all references to the word in question, professor Swers was further criticized by a group of unhinged extremists who insisted that her response was insufficient,&rdquo; Downer-Sanderson said. &ldquo;These antagonists, who know just as well as anyone else that professor Swers intended no harm by her actions, are unforgiving and vicious,&quot; Downer-Sanderson said. &quot;If these extremists are genuinely concerned about racial justice, there are real issues that need tackling.&quot;Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to Georgetown University for comment, but did not receive a response. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Jess__Custodio">@Jess__Custodio</a>

Students found the professor's apologies insufficient. 

Georgetown University professor is under fire after quoting a racial slur from a historic Supreme Court case

Donovan Barnes, a first year student at Georgetown University, recently published a &ldquo;viewpoint&rdquo; article in the school&rsquo;s student newspaper titled &ldquo;Develop Gender-Neutral Language in Arabic.&rdquo; Barnes&rsquo; March 25 op-ed in <a href="https://thehoya.com/viewpoint-develop-gender-neutral-language-in-arabic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Hoya</a> expresses the opinion that &ldquo;to aid the fight for gender inclusivity in the Arabic language, Georgetown students and instructors have the responsibility to work toward language that includes all gender identities, not just identities within the cisnormative male and female binary.&rdquo; The student explained that he is studying Arabic at Georgetown and had &ldquo;valid concerns&rdquo; coming into the program because he is learning a language that is &ldquo;radically different from [his] first language, English.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17134" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17134" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Georgetown students demand to abolish campus police, even with DC crime on the rise]</a> &ldquo;I never thought about how the language intersected with a person&rsquo;s gender identity, however, until I began taking courses,&rdquo; wrote Barnes. &ldquo;I realized the lack of gender-inclusive Arabic pronouns excludes nonbinary and gender-nonconforming students interested in learning the language.&rdquo; According to Barnes&#39; personal experiences, Georgetown does not teach gender-neutral pronouns very extensively in their Arabic courses. He believes that the university should play a larger role in this issue by incorporating gender-neutral language into these classes. &ldquo;The push for gender inclusivity in Arabic is ongoing, and the Georgetown community must facilitate the conversation on gender inclusivity within Arabic courses.&rdquo; According to an article from the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201006-are-some-languages-more-sexist-than-others" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BBC</a>, &ldquo;the world&rsquo;s four most spoken gendered languages are Hindi, Spanish, French and Arabic.&rdquo; The <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/01/24/gendered-languages-may-play-a-role-in-limiting-womens-opportunities-new-research-finds" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">World Bank&nbsp;</a>has collected research that shows &ldquo;38 percent of the world&rsquo;s population speaks a gendered language.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16786" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16786" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16786" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students at Catholic Georgetown feel &#39;unsafe&#39; by pro-life speakers in optional, virtual event]</a> In many gendered languages including Spanish and Arabic, masculine pronouns are used to describe groups of people and feminine versions are used only when referring to women as individuals or as a group. However, in Arabic all words have a masculine origin and feminine endings are added. <a href="https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-many-people-speak-arabic#:~:text=How%20Many%20People%20Speak%20Arabic%20In%20The%20World%3F,%2C%20Spanish%2C%20English%20and%20Hindi." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Babbel Magazine</a> has found that over 20 countries use Arabic as an &ldquo;official or co-official language,&rdquo; with over 310 million individuals in the world speaking this language. The article further explained that &ldquo;knowing Modern Standard Arabic will help you converse with the hundreds of millions of speakers around the globe.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16620" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: &#39;COVID-19 will not be gone anytime soon&#39;: Georgetown students beg for return to campus] </a> Barnes acknowledged in his article that &ldquo;Arabic has historical and contemporary ties with Islam and religious tradition, and it may be challenging to deviate from the language&rsquo;s norms.&rdquo; However, he further stated that &ldquo;Arabic speakers whose gender identities do not align with the norms of the language should not have to compromise their identity. They deserve representation.&rdquo;&nbsp; The <a href="http://mylanguages.org/arabic_pronouns.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arabic language</a> does include the pronouns he, she, they, them, his, hers, theirs, etc. But there are many Middle Eastern countries that do not allow transgender or homosexual behavior and some even have <a href="http://internap.hrw.org/features/features/lgbt_laws/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">laws</a> prohibiting it. Barnes expressed that he believes &ldquo;creating gender-inclusive pronouns in all languages is a significant step in achieving equality.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16436" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16436" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16436" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Georgetown newspaper claims it wants &#39;bipartisanship,&#39; then casts conservatives as &#39;racist,&#39; &#39;homophobic&#39;]</a> Georgetown&rsquo;s <a href="https://arabic.georgetown.edu/courses-offered/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies</a> offers courses in &ldquo;<a href="https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/arabic-modern-standard/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Modern Standard Arabic,</a>&rdquo; which is the official language of 22 Arab Countries and the modern counterpart of &ldquo;Classical Arabic.&rdquo; The department also offers classes titled &ldquo;Women and Gender in Islam&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Syntax of Arabic.&rdquo; &ldquo;Beginning the conversation on gender inclusivity in Arabic would significantly benefit the LGBTQ+ community. Arabic speakers and learners who identify with gender-neutral language would feel less ostracized when learning and speaking the language.&rdquo; Barnes concluded, &ldquo;I call on Georgetown to begin the conversation, for it is long overdue.&rdquo; <a href="https://languages.ufl.edu/people/faculty-alpha/youssef-haddad/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Youseff Haddad</a>, Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics at the University of Florida, told Campus Reform&nbsp;that &ldquo;gender neutral&rdquo; words in Arabic are not possible. He also emphasized that similar to Spanish there are no nouns that are not masculine or feminine. In the Arabic language you must mark whether an individual is male or female, there is no neutral version for these terms. Although the professor further mentioned that if an individual prefers the pronouns they/them, then they can also use those in Arabic similar to when used in English. A few individuals commented on the article from Barnes, one person wrote &ldquo;Thanks, but the region does not need your white-saviour complex.&rdquo; Another reader wrote &ldquo;please stop colonizing other languages. Leave Arabic and Arab culture to the Arabs.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16461" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16461" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16461" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Kamala Harris&rsquo; husband lands teaching gig at Georgetown University]</a> Barnes responded to one of the comments and explained that his piece &ldquo;was written so nonbinary students don&rsquo;t have to switch languages due to lack of gender-neutral options.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to Donovan Barnes regarding the story and he refused to comment. Georgetown University has not responded to requests for comment.&nbsp;

The author of the article, Donovan Barnes, stated that “beginning the conversation on gender inclusivity in Arabic would significantly benefit the LGBTQ+ community.”

Student calls on Georgetown University to ‘begin the conversation’ about ‘gender-neutral' version of Arabic

Georgetown University Law Center has announced Doug Emhoff, the husband of Sen. Kamala Harris, will teach an &ldquo;Entertainment Law Disputes&rdquo; course during the upcoming Spring 2021 semester.&nbsp; Georgetown Law Dean <a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/william-m-treanor/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William M. Treanor</a> released a <a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-law-welcomes-douglas-emhoff-to-its-faculty/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">statement</a> about Emhoff&rsquo;s new course and said that students will &quot;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">greatly benefit&quot; from his experience. &ldquo;I am delighted that Douglas Emhoff will be joining our faculty. Doug is one of the nation&rsquo;s leading intellectual property and business litigators, and he has a strong commitment to social justice. I know our students will greatly benefit from his experience and insight, and I am eagerly looking forward to his arrival,&quot; Treanor said.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16375" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16375" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Jill Biden plans to continue work as professor if her husband is inaugurated]</a> According to the statement, Emhoff will also serve as a Distinguished Fellow of Georgetown Law&rsquo;s Institute for Technology Law and Policy, as part of a new entertainment and media law initiative that will include a speaker series and other projects. Emhoff said in the statement that he was &ldquo;excited to join the Georgetown community.&rdquo; &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve long wanted to teach and serve the next generation of young lawyers,&rdquo; Emhoff said, according to the statement by Georgetown.&nbsp; Currently, Emhoff is a &ldquo;litigator and strategic advisor&rdquo; for global law firm DLA Piper. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16399" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16399" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Biden&#39;s Secretary of State pick led Biden Center at UPenn, as school allegedly accepted millions in &#39;anonymous&#39; donations from China]</a> According to his <a href="https://www.dlapiper.com/en/us/people/e/emhoff-douglas-c/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">profile</a> on the DLA website, Emhoff is currently transitioning his practice as he prepares to take on new responsibilities in light of the presidential transition, which the Trump administration authorized in late November. Andrew Jose, a student at Georgetown University, told Campus Reform&nbsp;that he is excited to have the opportunity to potentially take Emhoff&#39;s class. &ldquo;Mr. Emhoff is a man, who due to him being Mrs. Harris&#39; husband, has exposure to different experiences that would be of good use to Georgetown students when he shares them through his classes. I look forward to being a student of his, regardless of my political sentiments,&quot; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Jose said. Campus Reform reached out to Georgetown Law for further comment; however, a reply was not received in time for publication.&nbsp; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ashleyecarnahan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ashleyecarnahan</a>

Emhoff will also serve as a distinguished fellow of the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy beginning in January 2021.

Kamala Harris’ husband lands teaching gig at Georgetown University

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok who was fired from the bureau in 2018 has been hired as an adjunct professor by Georgetown University teaching counterintelligence and national security courses.&nbsp;Strzok is now <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014U15mAAC/peter-strzok-ii" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">listed&nbsp;</a>on the university&#39;s website as &ldquo;Adjunct Professor - Undergraduate Program,&rdquo; and has added to his Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/petestrzok" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">bio</a> that he is a Georgetown &ldquo;adjunct prof and alum.&rdquo;Strzok will teach a <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/course-catalog/a1o1Q00000271IyQAI/ipol32301?id=00336000014U15mAAC" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">course</a> on &ldquo;Counterintelligence and National Security,&rdquo; which &ldquo; is an upper-class seminar which explores the theory and practice of counterintelligence as a part of U.S. national security.&rdquo; It is &ldquo;designed to expose students to the type of issues and work they would be expected to perform as entry level professional employees within the U.S. intelligence community.&rdquo;&ldquo;The faculty for this new seminar is in a VERY high-level Intel position!&rdquo; boasts the course description.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15950" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Beto O&rsquo;Rourke lands gig at Texas State]</a>&ldquo;Taught from a practitioner&rsquo;s perspective, the course begins with the fundamental question of why nations conduct intelligence activity, continuing into an exploration of both the various foreign intelligence services targeting the U.S. and, using real world examples, the range of intelligence activity they employ, including traditional intelligence collection, economic espionage, and disinformation.&ldquo;The faculty recently held a senior leadership position in the US Intelligence Community, working both domestic and international counterintelligence issues,&rdquo; the course description notes, pointing out that Strzok &quot;spent two decades working counterintelligence issues at an operational and policy level.&quot;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15690" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard taps Chasten Buttigieg for politics fellowship, despite lack of political experience]</a>Strzok was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-agent-peter-strzok-fired-over-anti-trump-texts/2018/08/13/be98f84c-8e8b-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">fired</a> from the FBI after anti-Trump text messages with his married lover Lisa Page were made public as well as amid concern that he had undermined the integrity of the FBI and other intelligence agencies with his direct partisanship and animus toward the president.&nbsp;A <a href="https://oig.justice.gov/node/640" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">statement</a> before Congress from Justice Department Inspector Michael Horowitz asserted that the messages were not appropriate and &ldquo;cast a cloud over the Midyear investigation, sowed doubt about the credibility of the FBI&rsquo;s handling of it, and impacted the reputation of the FBI.&rdquo;&ldquo;Moreover, we found the implication that senior FBI employees would be willing to take official action to impact a presidential candidate&rsquo;s electoral prospects to be deeply troubling and antithetical to the core values of the FBI and the Department of Justice,&rdquo; the Horowitz added.<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/06/peter-strzok-lawsuit-firing-trump-texts-1448615" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Strzok</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/12/10/former-fbi-lawyer-lisa-page-sues-justice-department-releasing-anti-trump-texts-media/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Page</a> have both sued the DOJ over their termination, and Strzok has since released a book titled, Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump.David Randall, Director of Research at the National Association of Scholars, reacted to the announcement, telling Campus Reform, &quot;Higher education prides itself on hiring professors whose prime qualification is hatred of America, such as Angela Davis and William Ayers.&quot;&quot;Georgetown&#39;s decision to hire Strzok is disgraceful, but typical. Strzok, alas, has not chosen the path of disgraced officials such as Charles Colson, who redeemed themselves by repentance and a humble rededication to public service. Americans of good will hope that Strzok will imitate Colson, seek redemption, and turn aside from the Vanity Fair of adjunctships, book deals, and TV commentary. When he has repented, he should be greeted with compassion and forgiveness.&quot;Campus Reform reached out to Georgetown University and Strzok for comment but has not yet received a response.Follow the authors of this article on Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/celinedryan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;@celinedryan</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/mnturn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mnturn</a>

Strzok will teach a course on counterintelligence and national security.

Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok gets hired by Georgetown University

Twitter suspended and removed verification from Georgetown University Distinguished Associate <a href="http://christinefair.net/html_pages/home.html" style="text-decoration:none;">Professor Christine Fair</a>&#39;s account on Tuesday, following a string of tweets in which she suggested that white Republican senators &quot;deserved miserable deaths while feminists laugh&quot; and that people should &quot;castrate their corpses and feed them to swine.&quot;A Twitter spokesperson told Campus Reform that the professor&#39;s account was suspended in error the first time. The account was restored hours later and the professor wasted no time in further expressing her views on the platform.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11369" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Georgetown prof: White GOP senators in Kavanaugh hearing &#39;deserve miserable deaths&#39;]</a>&quot;Fox News Failed to silence me. &nbsp;Thank you all for sending @Twitter messages of support. I do NOT and NEVER have condoned violence. My tweet, as I have explained, was an attempt to make YOU as UNCOMFORTABLE as I am using the language of the abuse I receive[d] by the hundreds,&quot; Fair tweeted on Tuesday afternoon.&quot;And let&#39;s be very clear: Fox News says it cares about &#39;campus safety&#39; while DELIBERATELY stoking angry herds to threaten the very safety of the same. Fox News and its minions is a mouthpiece of this anti-woman, racist, xphobic, bigoted regime,&quot; Fair added.Not long after Fair&#39;s account was restored, however, it was once again suspended. Twitter did not return a request for comment from Campus Reform when asked why the account was suspended, restored, and then suspended again. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11369" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(35, 82, 124); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; user-select: auto; font-family: ;" source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-style:="" normal;="" font-variant-ligatures:="" font-variant-caps:="" font-weight:="" 400;="" letter-spacing:="" orphans:="" 2;="" text-align:="" start;="" text-indent:="" 0px;="" text-transform:="" none;="" white-space:="" widows:="" word-spacing:="" -webkit-text-stroke-width:="" 0px;"=""></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11369" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(35, 82, 124); text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; user-select: auto; font-family: ;" source="" sans="" pro",="" sans-serif;="" font-style:="" normal;="" font-variant-ligatures:="" font-variant-caps:="" font-weight:="" 400;="" letter-spacing:="" orphans:="" 2;="" text-align:="" start;="" text-indent:="" 0px;="" text-transform:="" none;="" white-space:="" widows:="" word-spacing:="" -webkit-text-stroke-width:="" 0px;"=""></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11369" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fair&#39;s Twitter suspension</a> followed a tweet she sent over the weekend in which she suggested that Republican senators &quot;deserve miserable deaths.&quot;&nbsp;&ldquo;Look at thus [sic] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist&#39;s arrogated entitlement,&rdquo; Fair tweeted on September 27, referencing a video of &quot;Lindsey Graham&#39;s tirade&quot; during Thursday&#39;s hearing with Judge Brett Kavanaugh.&quot;All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes,&quot; Fair concluded the tweet.&nbsp;&ldquo;GOP doesn&#39;t care about women,&quot; Fair tweeted a week earlier. &quot;We knew this. Fuck them.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11329" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Georgetown prof: &lsquo;Kreepy Kavanaugh,&rsquo; &lsquo;GOP doesn&rsquo;t care about women...F*** them&#39;]&nbsp;</a>Campus Reform contacted Fair following both tweets. She responded by personally attacking both reporters on her blog site, the &ldquo;<a href="https://shortbustoparadise.wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration:none;">Tenacious Hellpussy</a>.&rdquo; She describes the page as &ldquo;A NASTY WOMAN POSTING FROM THE FRONTLINES OF FUCKERY.&rdquo;In her post, &quot;<a href="https://shortbustoparadise.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/when-aunt-lydia-of-campus-reform-tries-to-launch-another-harassment-campaign-this-is-what-she-got/" style="text-decoration:none;">When &#39;Aunt Lydia&#39; of Campus Reform Tried to Launch Another Harassment Campaign: This is what she got</a>,&quot; Fair compared a female Campus Reform correspondent to Aunt Lydia from the Handmaid&rsquo;s Tale. Aunt Lydia is a female character in the novel and show who works for the men to help them abuse other women.&ldquo;And you, Aunt Lydia, are a potential victim of this war as well even though you shill for those persons and institutions who sustain it and seek to perpetuate it,&quot; Fair said in the post. &quot;Do you think your potential assailant will care that you enable the patriarchal structures that devalue our lives and the work we do and construct legal structures that privilege the attacker? Do you think complicit women and lousy men will be less likely to slut shame you because you are one of their paid-keyboards? No, Aunt Lydia.&quot;In a separate post, &quot;<a href="https://shortbustoparadise.wordpress.com/2018/09/20/when-a-campus-reform-tried-to-bully-me-the-reporter-got-this/" style="text-decoration:none;">When Campus Reform Tried to Bully Me: The &#39;Reporter&#39; got This Response</a>,&quot; Fair accused another Campus Reform correspondent of &ldquo;bullying&rdquo; her in response to an email asking for clarification and comment regarding one of the professor&#39;s tweets.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11013" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Georgetown called out for urging donations to left-wing groups]</a>&ldquo;You know what you&rsquo;ll never see? A room full of man-hating female (cis or trans) legislators sitting around a table discussing coverage for your Viagra, your Cialis, your prostate preventative care, your prostate cancer, your gynecomastia (moobs if you will) if it becomes cancerous, etc.&rdquo; she wrote in response to a request for comment from Campus Reform.Amelia Irvine, a senior at Georgetown University, responded to Fair&#39;s conduct in a statement to Campus Reform.&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s laughable that Twitter recognizes that Christine Fair&rsquo;s comments were outside the bounds of civil discourse, while Georgetown University refuses to do so,&quot; Irvine said. &quot;Why won&rsquo;t Georgetown clearly tell professors and students that calling for violence against others is unacceptable?&rdquo;&nbsp;&quot;Georgetown urges members of our community to engage in robust, but respectful dialogue,&quot; a Georgetown spokesman told Campus Reform. &nbsp;&quot;While we protect speech and expression, we condemn uncivil and disrespectful discourse that is inconsistent with our values.&quot;&ldquo;The views of faculty members expressed in their private capacities are their own and not the views of the University. Our policy does not prohibit speech based on the person presenting ideas or the content of those ideas, even when those ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable. While faculty members may exercise freedom of speech, we expect their classrooms and interaction with students to be free of bias and geared toward thoughtful, respectful dialogue.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10379" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Georgetown advisor hopes Allie Stuckey has &#39;#metoo moment&#39;]</a>In a separate statement, Georgetown University President John DeGioia added &quot;we can and do strongly condemn the use of violent imagery, profanity, and insensitive labeling of individuals based on gender, ethnicity or political affiliation in any form of discourse. Such expressions go against our values.&quot;Nicole Neily, president of Speech First, offered a different perspective. Neily recalled the fact that Georgetown has adopted a version of the Chicago statement, which states, in part, &quot;it is not the proper role of a university to insulate individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive. Deliberation or debate may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or ill-conceived.&quot; Neily then added: &quot;Were Dr. Fair&#39;s comments offensive, unwise, and ill-conceived? Yes. Should she be censured, suspended, fired, or otherwise punished for them? I don&#39;t think so.&quot;A spokeswoman for University of Detroit Mercy President Dr. Antoine Garibaldi, who serves on Georgetown&#39;s <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/about/board-of-directors">Board of Directors</a>, told Campus Reform&nbsp;that Garibaldi &quot;would not be comfortable commenting [for the story] because this is a Georgetown matter.&quot;Editor&#39;s note: Campus Reform encourages civil discourse and acknowledges professors&#39; First Amendment right to free speech. 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Georgetown University responds amid backlash to prof's 'white men' tweet, Twitter suspends account

Members of a liberal student group at Catholic Georgetown University in Washington D.C., say unknown vandals have repeatedly ripped down envelopes full of condoms they place on their doors as part of a campus-wide "condom delivery service."
H*yas for Choice, the student group which&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hyas-for-Choice/100664630061675">describes itself as</a> &ldquo;pro-choice, pro-reproductive justice,&rdquo; began offering the condom service at the prestigious Catholic school in the fall.&nbsp;
Georgetown&rsquo;s administration said it would not interfere with the displays &mdash; despite the school&rsquo;s Catholic affiliation &mdash; because dorm rooms are &ldquo;free speech zones,&rdquo; according to <a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2703/Georgetown-and-the-Case-of-the-Missing-Condoms.aspx">an article in</a> Catholic Education Daily.
H*yas for Choice board member and "condom representative" Vincent DeLaurentis told The Hoya, Georgetown&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.thehoya.com/condom-representatives-suffer-vandalism-1.3112973#.UpN4KKmsgyr">official student newspaper</a>, that after his condoms were torn down, he hung a sign that said, &ldquo;Every time you rip this down, I&rsquo;ll make a donation to Planned Parenthood.&rdquo;
DeLaurentis said the sign was also ripped off of the door.
Georgetown University Student Association President Nate Tisa said he will be calling for an investigation since the vandalism violates the school&rsquo;s free speech policy.
&ldquo;GUSA will be sure to follow up with Residential Living to see if it&rsquo;s a pattern,&rdquo; Tisa told The Hoya. &ldquo;Doors are personal free-speech zones, and if you disagree with someone, you should express that in your own zone.&rdquo;
The group also <a href="http://www.thehoya.com/opinion/a-service-for-safe-sex-1.3112632#.UpOA3Kmsgyo">offers to deliver</a> condoms to any party or event on campus with 48 hours notice.
Several students told The Hoya in October that <a href="http://www.thehoya.com/condom-delivery-draws-ire-1.3101918#.UpOTQo2hsm0">they were upset</a> about the condom delivery service for moral reasons.
&ldquo;This new service simply contributes to the already prevalent hookup culture that reduces men and women to mere objects of physical gratification,&rdquo; Emile Doak, a member of the conservative group Love Saxa, told the student newspaper.
Georgetown administrators did not respond to a request for comment from Campus Reform in time for publication.
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