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Horrible! Two-Thirds of Colleges Require DEI Courses to Graduate

A shocking new report from Campus Reform found that 67% of colleges and universities across America require Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion courses for students to graduate.

The report, originally conducted by Speech First, “took a look at general education requirements at 248 colleges and found that 165 of them require students to take a DEI course to graduate.”

A tiny 33 percent of so-called institutes of higher learning didn’t offer DEI courses, according to the surveys.

This violates federal executive orders that sought to expunge DEI and Wokeness from schools.

Sadly, “additionally, the report found that ”students are subjected to courses advocating far-left ideological perspectives and pushing far-left political advocacy.”

“59% of the universities surveyed that have DEI course requirements are public, while 41% are private.”

This is pure leftist indoctrination, and sadly, it has not gone away despite the public having rejected Woke and DEI ideology at the polls by electing President Trump.

“Speech First Executive Director Cherise Trump told FOX Business that her organization began digging after conversations with students in college.

”We had heard about some of the trainings through freshman orientations and some of the online modules,” said Trump. “But we had not heard that you have to take full semester-long courses in order to graduate, so we wanted to look more into this, and that’s when we started digging.”

In a shocking example, Loyola Marymount University, a private Jesuit institution, offered a course titled “Bad Catholics.”

This woke garbage is in opposition to the will of the American public and is offensive to many patriots.

The content of this course is just as bad as one would expect from the title ”The goal of this course is to explore contemporary voices of loyal dissent in the catholic church,” the course description states. “The course will begin by exploring questions of teaching and authority, belief and dissent, and belonging and ”cancel culture” from theological and philosophical perspectives. We will then explore voices of dissent from Feminist theologians, Black and Latinx liberation theologians, Queer theologians, and Eco-theologians. These four areas of dissent demonstrate the plurality of discourse among contemporary Catholic theologians and the struggle over orthodox belief and right practice that takes place under asymmetrical power relations.”

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Stanford Graduation Descends Into Chaos as Students Stage Mass Walkout on Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech

More than 100 Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony on Sunday to protest Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Videos posted on social media showed students leaving their seats at Stanford Stadium while chanting “Free, free Palestine.”

Others booed and shouted “shame on you” as Pichai addressed the crowd.

The protest was organized by groups including Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid.

Pichai, a Stanford alumnus who earned a master’s degree in materials science and engineering in 1995, was selected earlier this year to deliver the keynote address at the university’s 135th commencement ceremony.

Many of the protesting graduates carried Palestinian flags as they exited the stadium, turning what is traditionally one of the university’s most celebratory events into a political demonstration.

The protest centered on Google’s involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing and artificial intelligence contract jointly held with Amazon that provides services to the Israeli government.

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Outrageous: Rice University Offers Course on Taylor Swift Analyzing “Whiteness” and “Nationalism”

In the latest in waste of money on courses at American schools according to Campus Reform, “Rice University, a private research university in Houston, Texas, is offering multiple courses centered on pop star Taylor Swift, including one class examining far-left themes such as “American nationalism and whiteness” through Swift’s lyrics and public image.”

“Rice will offer “COLL 118 Mastermind: The Taylor Swift Eras” this fall, in which students will analyze Swift’s albums as “primary texts” and examine “how a single artist can shape global culture and shift industry standards.”

If you find this absurd you are not alone. Yet again the universities are offering woke courses lacking academic rigor.

The class is focused on Swifts musical trends genres as well as her ownership dispute over her master recordings.

If this wasn’t irrelevant enough “Rice is also listing a second Swift-focused course in its 2026-27 catalog titled “COLL 167 Miss Americana: The Evolution and Lyrics of Taylor Swift.” This seminar course will focus on Swift’s songwriting alongside discussions about “femininity and gender,” “politics and social impact,” and “American nationalism and whiteness.”

University courses wouldn’t be complete without an attack on traditional gender roles and “Whiteness.”

“Students in the class will examine all 10 of Swift’s albums and complete written responses, participate in classroom discussions, and write a final essay analyzing one of her songs.”

In other words no academic rigor and waste of time.

“While it is listed in the 2026-27 course catalog, Rice has not specified whether the “Miss Americana” course will be offered during the fall or spring semester. The university previously offered the same course in fall 2023.”

The fact that this is being offered in Texas shows wokeness has infultrated schools in almost every region and state.

“The university’s undergraduate tuition cost for the 2026-27 academic year exceeds $70,000. The university estimates the total cost of attendance to be $97,000 after fees, housing, meals, books, and personal expenses are included.”

This is insulting to those paying tuition at these schools.

The cost of tuition is getting higher while the courses become more anti American and less academic.

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Higher Education Must Not Become a Research Arm of Militarized Power

hat happens to higher education when institutions dedicated to critical thought increasingly align themselves with the logics of war, surveillance, and national security? Unless we mount an organized resistance, we may viscerally experience the answer to this question all too soon.

We are already watching this transformation play out in both the U.S. and Canada as universities face growing pressure to align their missions, research agendas, and pedagogical practices with the values, priorities, and imperatives of a society increasingly organized around the logic of war.

Militarized policies, values, identities, and modes of governance no longer merely creep into U.S. society. Under the Trump administration, they increasingly define it. Militarization now extends far beyond the battlefield, reshaping everyday life, public institutions, and the very meaning of citizenship. War is celebrated as a moral imperative, often wrapped in the language of religious righteousness and white Christian nationalism. Due process gives way to abductions and arbitrary detention, dissent is met with threats and repression, soldiers occupy U.S. cities, and political violence is normalized through a steady stream of incendiary rhetoric and state-sponsored spectacles that glorify force, exclusion, and domination. Democratic ideals are displaced by a culture of fear, manufactured insecurity, and the belief that the nation is besieged by enemies both within and beyond its borders — largely immigrants and people of color.

In this militarized landscape, critical thought is derided, informed judgment is replaced by ideological conformity, and institutions charged with nurturing democratic agency increasingly come under attack. This fusion of militarism, toxic masculinity, religious fundamentalism, and white nationalist politics functions as a powerful form of public pedagogy, producing the authoritarian values, identities, and modes of agency that have historically provided the cultural foundations for fascist politics.

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Insanity! Boston University Advertises DEI and Black Power Courses

In yet another example of wasted money going to colleges Campus Reform is reporting “Boston University, a private Massachusetts-based research institution, appears to intertwine progressive ideology in its history department.”

In addition, instead of preparing students for the workforce “It seems to not just celebrate diversity in terms of job opportunities, however, as it includes a “Statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” on its webpage.”

This was banned throughout American schools as part of an executive order after President Trump was reelected President in some part because people wanted wokeness and DEI purged from academia.

The statement of DEI they have on the website reads like a BLM statement “The Boston University History Department recognizes and mourns the long history of racial injustice that has left deep scars on our society and which continues to manifest in horrific incidents of racial violence, including the very recent murders of Black men and women at the hands of police,”

The anti American bias of these courses is blatent.

The contrast in how they describe racial extremism couldn’t be stronger.

“The first, entitled “White Supremacist Thought: Self, Culture and Society since the 18th Century,” examines the “the simultaneous, mutualistically symbiotic emergence and sustained codependent development of autonomous individuality and white supremacy in western Europe and the United States from the 18th century to the present day.”

Black Supremacy is described very differently Black Power in the Classroom: The History of Black Studies,” which aims to center “Black experiences, cultures, knowledge production and identity formation in the United States and in the African Diaspora across time and space.”

In other words according to these racist leftists Black Power is good but White Power bad.  Of course Americans favor neither yet its worth pointing out the disparity in how these ideologies are framed.

“The word “supremacy” is not used in reference to any other race in the other courses’ descriptions.”

An earlier course offered a few years ago represented this ethno supremicist sentiment.

A “Topics in History” class offered in the summer of 2020 explored the theme of “Race, Gender, and Representation.”

“Through abolitionism, women’s suffrage, workers’ rights, AIDS activism, the Movement for Black Lives, and anti-prison organizing, we explore the relationship between visual culture and representation in U.S. history, and examine marginalized and minoritized peoples’ mobilization of visual and print media to clapback and correct pervasive stereotypes and misrepresentations in popular culture,” the course description states.

One associate professor was the co-editor of Radical Teacher’s special issue on “Teaching #BlackLives Matter” and a contributing author to “Colonize This! Young women of color on today’s feminism.”

Gender and racial ideology should be relegated to the ashbin of history.

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Citizen Sues Virginia Military Institute And Its Board, Alleging Secret “Group Text” Meetings, Withheld And Altered Public Records

A new lawsuit accuses the governing board of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) — one of the nation’s last state military colleges and a primary commissioning source for the armed forces — of conducting the public’s business in the shadows.

The verified petition, filed June 1, 2026 in York County Circuit Court (Morris v. Virginia Military Institute, No. CL26005973-00), alleges that some members of VMI’s Board of Visitors held unnoticed “meetings” by reply-all email and other means about official board business — including the day after their own FOIA officer warned them in writing that doing so was illegal, and despite repeated formal training telling them not to “Reply All.”

It further alleges that VMI withheld, redacted, and even altered public records to obscure how a prominent donor and board member was pushed off the board and the board president was forced to step down.

The specifics are striking. According to the petition, board member Donald Hall publicly admitted he was “the principal negotiator” working with the Virginia General Assembly and said former Governor Ralph Northam “was more involved than anyone in this room knows other than me.”

Yet the suit alleges VMI produced no records at all from Hall, none from the former governor, withheld voicemails and call logs, and redacted the identities of email correspondents.

The petition also alleges that VMI’s FOIA officer altered an online records-portal entry to erase his own name —replacing it with the anonymous label “Staff” — and that a process server hired to deliver public comments on important issues intended for the Board to be informed on was turned away from public open committee meetings.

The filing seeks a ruling that the secret meetings and other actions were unlawful, an order forcing board business onto official accounts and devices, and personal civil penalties of $500–$5,000 per violation against the FOIA officer, a board administrator, and six sitting board members — penalties payable to Virginia’s State Literary Fund, not to the petitioner.

The case carries a question of national resonance: how much should politicians control the governance — and the independence — of public universities, and how much of that maneuvering happens off the public record?

What are the implications of these actions on commissioning sources and military readiness?

It also invites an uncomfortable comparison. In the same period, Gov. Abigail Spanberger removed John Rocovich as rector of Virginia Tech’s Board of Visitors — a move he has publicly contested — while the VMI BOV and FOIA staff accused of operating in secret remain in place and operating.

Were the standards applied consistently, and who is really steering Virginia’s military college?

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Radical Professor at NYC’s New School Calls to Dismantle America ‘By Any Means Necessary’ While Defending Iran’s Terror Regime

In a chilling display of ideological derangement, a political science professor at The New School in New York City took to the podium at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting to champion the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and declare her desire to see the United States brought low.

Corinna Mullin’s “Islamic Revolution Teach-in” wasn’t an academic exercise in nuance—it was a brazen endorsement of America’s enemies wrapped in the language of class struggle and anticolonialism.

This isn’t the isolated rant of a fringe activist. It’s a window into the moral inversion that has captured significant portions of American higher education, where terrorist organizations are recast as defenders of the working class and the world’s most powerful republic is painted as the ultimate oppressor. Mullin, who previously led destructive anti-Israel protests at CUNY that caused millions in damage, now teaches at The New School after her reinstatement following termination.

During the hour-and-a-half session, Mullin praised Iran’s military for depleting U.S. weapons stockpiles and claimed the regime had achieved “phenomenal results” through its indigenous industry.

“We need to bring the empire down by any means necessary,” she declared, framing Iran’s actions as a blow against American power. She went further, defending the IRGC—a U.S.-designated terrorist organization responsible for the deaths of countless innocents, including Americans—as a protector of workers and the embodiment of resistance.

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Female player promised full ride to San Jose State for volleyball stuck with full-year tuition bills after trans player takes her spot

Former San Jose State volleyball player Elle Patterson was promised a full athletic scholarship that was not fully honored to her, as her transgender-identifying biological male teammate continued to receive his scholarship.

Patterson was originally committed to Fairfield University on a full athletic scholarship before following her recruiting coach, Todd Kress, to San Jose State. She said she was told she would again receive a full scholarship offer.

“I had a phone call with Todd and he said, ‘yes, it will be a full ride again,'” Patterson explained to Fox News. “I was an out-of-state kid, so I didn’t want to have to be paying a lot for my school when I went somewhere to get it paid for. So he confirmed that to me verbally.”

Patterson, however, never actually saw that money from the scholarship. Her family was forced to pay out-of-pocket for her freshman year as she played back-up for a transgender-identifying teammate. Her family wasn’t prepared for the financial burden, but they made it work with the belief that the scholarship would take effect next year. Patterson said Kress told her, “We will not be covering your first year. But we will be covering your last three.”

But when the first year ended, she never received the scholarship. Patterson then claimed that as she continued to play, she realized Kress wasn’t who she thought he was.

“He didn’t seem like the type of coach and the person who recruited me when he was actually coaching at San Jose,” Patterson said. “The way in which he went about certain situations and just playing was more along the lines of just completely tearing you down as a person and not building you back up. But it definitely felt like he had certain people, one being the man on our team, that he would have done anything for… but it didn’t feel like he had the support and belief in some of the other girls on our team.”

Patterson said she was then told she wouldn’t receive her scholarship and was told it was due to an injury that required her to miss a few games.

“We go through the entire season. I get to my end-of-the-year meeting with them. And that is when I was sitting in the office with him and the assistant coach at the time and they said that they weren’t going to give me a scholarship anymore,” Patterson said.

“They tried to say that it was because of [my injury]. And because I wasn’t like back to where I had been before.”

However, trans-identifying teammate Blaire Fleming, who was also injured and missed even more games than Paterson, was able to keep his scholarship, according to the Department of Education’s written findings of its Title IX investigation into SJSU in 2025 and 2026.

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Ohio State University Reaches $100 Million Settlement With Nearly 300 Sex Abuse Survivors

Ohio State University has reached a $100 million settlement with nearly 300 former students who had accused the school’s campus doctor of sexually assaulting them decades ago, the school and a lawyer for the victims said on Wednesday.

The settlement with 279 of the 280 former students was ratified by the university’s board on Wednesday. It followed years of litigation over accusations of decades of abuse by Richard Strauss.

The abuse occurred from 1978 to 1998, the year he retired from the faculty.

“The mediation and its confidentiality are continuing as the parties work to finalize the details of the settlements, and additional information will be shared as appropriate,” the school and a lawyer for the victims said in a joint statement.

In February, the university reached eight additional settlements, bringing the total to 304 survivors and more than $60 million.

Strauss, who killed himself in 2005, was employed by Ohio State’s athletic department and medical staff for nearly two decades.

A 2019 report detailing the investigative findings said that Strauss had sexually abused at least 177 men, nearly all of whom were students, and that university staff who knew of the abuse failed to act. The abuse included groping and fondling of the students’ genitals and other acts under the guise of a medical examination.

News of the investigation and its findings prompted more than 500 plaintiffs to sue Ohio State, alleging they had been sexually abused by Strauss and that the school had shown deliberate indifference.

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University Of Oregon Grapples With Budget Crisis After Years Of Woke Excess

It appears that being unrelentingly woke means that you need fewer dormitories. The University of Oregon is facing a major budget crisis and will cut $65 million from its budget and close dorms due to low enrollment. That growing crisis, however, did not stop Oregon from burning almost a million dollars fighting against free speech. It also did not induce its faculty to offer greater intellectual diversity and tolerance to prospective students. Oregon is a cautionary tale for a generation of academic social warriors, but also an opportunity for those who want to restore balance in higher education.

Oregon has long been an example of academic orthodoxy. While most state schools begrudgingly yield to First Amendment demands and offer better free speech alternatives to private universities, Oregon is known as a hardened silo for the far left in teaching.

We previously discussed how Portland State University Professor Bruce Gilley, who was blocked from the Twitter account of the University of Oregon’s Division of Equity and Inclusion after tweeting “All men are created equal.” Oregon spent almost a million dollars fighting to bar such speech.

Such controversies have plagued the university for years, with no sign of self-examination by administrators or academics. The university was criticized for its monitoring of social media to punish errant thoughts or microaggressions. The law school’s law review was accused of anti-Israel discrimination.

The school previously gave special recognition to University of California (Santa Barbara) Professor Mireille Miller-Young, who criminally assaulted pro-life advocates on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara.  At the University of Oregon, she was honored as a featured speaker at the University of Oregon’s  Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.  Part of its “black feminist speaker series,” Miller-Young’s work was highlighted by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English to show “the radical potential of black feminism in the work that we do on campus and in our everyday lives.”

Now, the school is facing declining revenues and enrollments.

President Karl Scholz recently announced that this was due to lower out-of-state first-year enrollment, which means lower tuition revenue, increased costs, and a loss of grant funding.

Strangely, while closing dorms, the school is still building two new dorms.

Putting aside the school’s past budget judgment and discipline, the university’s reputation for intellectual orthodoxy deters many who do not want to pay tuition for their children to be indoctrinated or silenced.  Even with plunging trust in higher education, administrators and faculty cannot resist the temptation to exclude opposing voices.

Oregon is not the only school facing such shortfalls. Some woke institutions have closed entirely. The irony is that faculty would seem to prefer to see their institutions die than restore balance to their departments. However, this may offer a real opportunity for legislators and donors to force real changes in the culture of these schools.

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