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Professor says monuments to American pioneers ‘reinforce white supremacy’

A University of North Dakota history professor who studies the American West believes monuments depicting the pioneers “reinforce white supremacy.”

In an interview this week with KJZZ Phoenix, Cynthia Prescott (pictured) discussed her research on pioneer monuments, including a book that argues the artwork promotes “white cultural superiority” and “gender stereotypes.”

Much like with Confederate monuments, the professor said America should re-examine artwork honoring American settlers.

“A lot of people have talked about Confederate monuments in particular, as being monuments that were put up in the late 19th, early 20th centuries for the purpose of enshrining a racial hierarchy. And through my work, I argue that Western pioneer monuments were doing very similar cultural work,” she told KJZZ.

Prescott, who chairs the History and American Indian Studies Department, said the purpose of pioneer monuments was “to reinforce white supremacy over peoples of color.”

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Trump Is “Dangerous” & Racist To Keep Men Out Of Women’s Prisons, Professor Says

President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep men who claim to be women out of female prisons is “dangerous” and hints of racism, according to an anthropologist.

Kate Clancy, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, analyzed the president’s directive that the federal government define sex on biological terms.

He also said prisons should not house men who claim to be transgender with women. The administration has also frozen people from requesting an “X” gender marker, for “nonbinary,” on their passports.

The order is “stupid” and “dangerous,” Clancy told LGBTQ Nation. Clancy disputed the idea that sex is biologically determinable. However, biology experts have affirmed there are only two sexes and it is not possible to change one’s sex.

“I think Trump, in whatever terrible language is available to him, is trying to control women and control people he perceives to be in the woman category,” Clancy told the news outlet.

“A lot of this is keeping the category of women pure—and also, obviously, about doing immense harm to trans people.”

But she also finds a racial element in the executive order.

She stated:

There’s also a very racial, white supremacist thing going on here with this “defending women.”

It’s a very old idea—it appears in travelogs, early writings of Europeans, as well as in the United States when they started encountering North American indigenous folks, and the way that they thought about enslaved peoples.

There was this belief that in the “lower races,” men and women were less different and that in the “higher races,” there were more differences between women and men.

This was about saying men and women are differentiated, clear, non-overlapping categories because that makes us a more evolved people.

Clancy also said “sex is also socially constructed.”

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Leading UK Universities Look to Expand Use of Open-Book Exams to Help Grades of Minority Students

Leading British universities are preparing to lower test standards in a bid to help improve the grades of ethnic minorities and poorer students in a major DEI initiative.

The universities of Oxford and Cambridge are among those preparing to implement “inclusive assessments” such as open-book exams and take-home essays rather than monitored in-person testing in the hopes of cutting the gaps between groups of students, The Telegraph reported.

In its annual Access and Participation Plan (APP) — a yearly report into how a university is seeking to improve the lot of disadvantaged student groups — the University of Cambridge said that traditional “assessment practices” may be responsible for varying performances among groups.

Cambridge said that it would specifically seek to “improve outcomes” for Black and Bangladeshi heritage students. The university went on to cite research from its own academics, finding traditional tests represent “threats to self-worth” for students.

Meanwhile, Oxford University’s APP reportedly said that it would seek to “use a more diverse and inclusive range of assessments” in order to “improve the likelihood” of better grades for students from “lower socio-economic backgrounds”.

The Office for Students (OFS), which regulates higher education in England, has reportedly backed the plans, and other Russell Group elite schools are considering following the example of Oxford and Cambridge.

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Northwestern University Offers Divisive and Racially Charged Course Promoting Anti-White Agenda

According to Campus Reform, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, a liberal suburb of Chicago,  is offering a course next semester called “Unsettling Whiteness.”

Yet again, academia is promoting an anti-White agenda and insulting people purely based on their skin color.

“The course appears on a spring course list for the university’s Department of Black Studies. The brief description on the list states that the course will make “the historical, political, and cultural formation of whiteness in Western modernity visible and narratable for commentary and analysis.”

The course seems to imply that Whiteness has not been studied despite the fact that colleges across the country talk about, and criticize White culture

Yet again, just like many courses in The United States institutes of so-called higher education, whiteness is associated with White supremacy.

Who’s the professor teaching this race-baiting? His name is Barnor Hesse, the Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies and an Associate Professor of Black Studies, Political Science, and Sociology.

Hesse’s bio reads, “Barnor Hesse is a political and critical theorist concerned with decolonial questions of colonial-racial modernity, the western political, and Black politics in the lives, conceptualizations and formations of the Black Diaspora. He is an Associate Professor of Black Studies, Political Science and Sociology. He obtained his PhD in Government (Ideology and Discourse Analysis) from the University of Essex (United Kingdom).”

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H-1B Visa Undermines American Students and Workers

Last year, I committed to spending this year exploring the education-to-workforce pipeline. Higher education has long been seen as the start of that pipeline, with graduates transitioning from classrooms to careers. My interest in this topic dates back to my time working for Governor Phil Bryant in Mississippi, where I assisted Laurie Smith in studying how the state’s community colleges and training programs prepared graduates for the workforce. The results were underwhelming—a topic for another day. For now, a more pressing issue is the role of the H-1B visa in this pipeline.

In this week’s top article, Rob Jenkins connects higher education to the H-1B visa program, framing the debate over whether to support the program as a proxy for assessing the quality of U.S. education. He poses a critical question: Are colleges and universities producing enough top-tier talent to meet economic demands—and if not, why?

Jenkins argues that American higher education bears responsibility for leaving graduates behind their international peers. He cites a June 2024 Gallup poll showing that only a third of Americans have confidence in U.S. universities to prepare students for the workforce. This crisis of confidence, Jenkins contends, stems from a combination of social promotion in K-12 schools, the dilution of college curricula, and the prioritization of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) over academic rigor—all of which, he believes, contribute to the nation’s reliance on foreign labor.

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Victimhood U

Colleges went mad. 

They charge students big bucks and then make them feel guilty.

My new video looks at a new documentary called “The Coddling of the American Mind.” It persuasively suggests that today, young people are anxious and depressed because “adults” at their schools brainwashed them.

Students like Lucy Kross Wallace at Stanford.

“I was anxious,” she says. “I felt guilty constantly. I couldn’t stop thinking about the white privilege thing.”

Kimi Katiti attended The Art Institute of California and now says, “I feel like I lost my life for six years. I was full of self-confidence when I was 18. But in college, that disintegrated.”

Kimi, who is Black, was taught that she is a victim of “microaggressions” from white people who say things like, “You’re so articulate,” or, “Can I touch your hair?” 

“I began to see myself through the lens of Black and a woman,” says Kimi. “If I see someone with their dog, for example, and the dog’s barking, I could interpret that as a racist microaggression.”

This new perspective began shaping every part of her life.

“To compete and get the best grades,” she says, “I showed how much of a victim I was in order to impress my professors.”

She didn’t think that was right, but she didn’t push back.

“I thought, I’m paying a lot, so (they must be) teaching me golden rules for life.”

She learned that it was important to censor speech by conservatives. Kimi joined a Twitter mob demanding that Twitter block Ben Shapiro’s posts.

“I would sit down, all the way through the night” looking for tweets to report. When Twitter didn’t block Shapiro, she’d “try again, try again.”

At Stanford, Lucy was taught that Shapiro’s ideas put “Black, brown, trans, queer and Muslim students at risk.”

 “My first thought was like, ‘This is extreme, ridiculous,'” but then she thought, “‘You’re privileged, you’re white.'”

A good person, she was taught, “didn’t read too many books by white authors or listen to the ‘wrong’ kind of music. I was really torn on rap because I didn’t know if that was appropriation or appreciation.”

To be accepted, she changed the way she spoke.

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Claudine Gay Still a Harvard Professor One Year After Resigning

According to Campus Reform, “Controversial former Harvard University President Claudine Gay remains as a faculty member a year after her resignation from leading the Ivy League school.”

The highly controversial former president Claudine Gay remains a professor at Harvard despite having a turned a blind eye to violent and threatening behavior at Harvard.

Gay was also accused of plagiarism something students are penalized for.

“Gay gained heavy criticism during a congressional hearing in December 2023 in which she was asked if “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates Harvard policies. Her answers included, “It can be, depending on the context.”

“When pressed about the specific “context,” Gay replied that the call for genocide needed to be “targeted at an individual.”

“The ex-president garnered further criticism after various allegations that she plagiarized as a doctoral student in the 1990s.

After resigning, Gay wrote a New York Times op-ed in which she stated she “made mistakes,” but clarified that, “I proudly stand by my work and its impact on the field.”

According to Harvard’s website, Gay serves as the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies.

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Ohio State University Nailed for Millions in the Same DEI Con Afflicting Other Top Schools

If you or any of your children who are of or almost college age are considering attending The Ohio State University (OSU), then you absolutely must read the facts about the costly fraud being inflicted upon that august institution by the Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI) Con Industry.

Yes, I’m speaking of that perennial college football powerhouse in Columbus, one of the major cities of the increasingly deep-red state that has as its official tree the Buckeye, and OSU’s sports teams are known as the Buckeyes. Just in case you wonder, the Buckeye tree is highly toxic, as are its nuts.

Toxic is also applicable to the DEI monstrosity uncovered at OSU by who else but Open the Books (OTB):

Ohio State University spent $13.3 million on pay for 201 employees with DEI-related roles last year. That’s the equivalent of full tuition for over 1,000 in-state students at its main Columbus campus.

The highest paid DEI officials are James L. More, vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at OSU, and Keesha Mitchell, associate vice president for the Office of Institutional Equity, practically tied at just under $300,000 each.

Another 29 people make between $100,000 and $269,000, with titles such as associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and outreach ($269,260), another associate vice president for the Office of Institutional Equity ($226,644), assistant vice provost for diversity and inclusion ($171,889), academic director for diversity and inclusion ($170,435), assistant dean and director of diversity, equity and inclusion ($145,923), among many more.

Those high salaries keep the DEI propaganda apparatus operating at full speed in OSU classrooms, spreading pernicious and racist Critical Race Theory (CRT) myths like the one that claims that white Americans are incapable of recognizing their own racism because they are so blinded by white privilege.

Then there is the DEI myth that black Americans are incapable of being racists because they are inescapably victims of that same white privilege. And those are just skimming the very top layers of a deceitful package of lies that semester after semester produces college graduates who have lost touch with reality, both in the present and past American history.

Everything DEI touches is corrupted. Consider DEI’s impact on women’s studies, according to the OTB investigators: “It offers courses like ‘Sexualities and Citizenship: A survey of cultural, social, and political issues related to historical and contemporary lesbian experience in the United States” and “Queer Ecologies: Gender, Sexuality, & the Environment.'”

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Activists Tried Cancel a Record Number of Campus Events in 2024

This past year, a record 164 speakers and events were targeted by campaigns to be disrupted or canceled, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a First Amendment group. This is slightly higher than 2023’s 154 deplatforming attempts. More than half of 2024’s attempted cancelations were related to the Israel-Palestine conflict, up from about a third of 2023’s platforming attempts.

In all, 2023 and 2024 saw a significant increase in attempted deplatformings of campus speeches and events from the years prior (though it’s worth noting that FIRE records attempted cancellations of events with multiple speakers as separate attempts). Meanwhile, 2022 and 2021 had just 81 and 56 attempts, respectively. Around half of 2024’s attempts resulted in the event being canceled, the speaker’s invitation being revoked, or the event being substantially disrupted. 

In January, Indiana University canceled an exhibition from a Palestinian-American artist over her pro-Palestentian social media posts. In April, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D–Md.) was shouted down during a physics department lecture at the University of Maryland. In the spring, speakers ranging from United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield to CNN’s Michael Smerconish had their invitations to deliver commencement speeches revoked following student or community outrage. In November, a symposium on the Israel-Palestine conflict including Judith Butler was forced off the campus of the University of Florida after administrators objected to the event.

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Fauci’s Cushy, Paid Role at Georgetown University Scrutinized as Report Reveals He Has Yet to Teach a Single Class

Serial liar Dr. Anthony Fauci joined Georgetown University’s faculty last year as a “distinguished university professor.”

But now, a new report has increased scrutiny of the cushy role after the revelation that Fauci has yet to teach a single course.

In the summer of 2023, Georgetown announced Fauci would serve as “a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.” He also received an appointment at the university’s McCourt School of Public Policy.

The university calls the role its “most significant professional honor” reserved for faculty members “whose extraordinary accomplishment in scholarship, teaching and service have earned them significant recognition in the Academy.”

“We are deeply honored to welcome Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a dedicated public servant, humanitarian and visionary global health leader, to Georgetown,” says Georgetown President John J. DeGioia. “Dr. Fauci has embodied the Jesuit value of being in service to others throughout his career, and we are grateful to have his expertise, strong leadership and commitment to guiding the next generation of leaders to meet the pressing issues of our time.”

According to The College Fix, however, no examples of Fauci actually teaching can be found in the school’s course catalogs since the announcement.

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