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Cornell University using DEI policy to reject faculty candidates for not 'conforming,' group claims
More than 20% of candidates for a recent professor position in the hard sciences were rejected outright due to their "DEI Statements" explaining how they would advance Diversity Equity and...
President Martha Pollack is quitting but to save Cornell, ditch DEI
Cornell University President Martha Pollack just unexpectedly announced that she’s stepping down at the end of June, after months of campus turmoil.
Cornell president steps down after year of turmoil, threats to Jewish students
Cornell University President Martha Pollack is ending her 7-year tenure as the head of the Ivy League school following months of turmoil including demonstrations and threats to Jewish students.
Cornell prof who called Hamas attack ‘exhilarating’ is back on campus cheering on protests despite being on leave
Russell Rickford, the controversial Cornell professor who described Hamas' Oct. 7 terrorist attack as "exhilarating" and "energizing," has made a return to campus to cheer on anti-Israel protesters despite still...
NY state budget slashes aid to universities, colleges with $750M endowments — including Columbia, NYU and Cornell
A little-known provision in the state budget approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the legislature for the first time slashes direct aid to private universities and colleges that have endowments...
Cornell students to hold 'Jewish Unity' rally to fight rising campus antisemitism
Students and professors at Cornell University are holding a "Jewish Unity" rally on Sunday to counter antisemitism that has infected the leafy upstate Ithaca campus -- including death threats.
Just two US colleges are doing enough to fight antisemitism — while Ivy Leagues fail: report
The nation's leading Jewish civil rights group has issued a report card flunking some of the nation's top elite private and public universities for failing to adequately combat antisemitism on...
Cornell student admits to making antisemitic threats after autism diagnosis, did it to 'garner sympathy' for Jewish people: lawyer
The Cornell University student who was arrested for threatening to kill Jews on campus pleaded guilty Wednesday after his recent autism diagnosis.
Jewish students in NYC area urged not to apply to Cornell University after antisemitic incidents: 'Not a safe place'
Alums for Campus Fairness mailed a brochure to all high schools in the New York City metropolitan region urging them to discourage Jewish students from applying to Cornell University.
Major Cornell donor Jon Lindseth ready for battle against woke mob at alma mater
Cornell donor Jon Lindseth is pulling funding from his alma mater over its DEI policies and the shameful response of President Martha Pollack to Hamas' atrocities. Good, but don't stop...
Major Cornell donor pulls funding over 'toxic' DEI culture, pens letter calling for president's resignation
Lindseth also said that a new campus "bias reporting system" has helped to foster an "Orwellian environment" among classmates, colleagues and neighbors.
Students rejecting early Harvard acceptance as antisemitism stigma plagues Ivy League institution
Students accepted early to Ivy League schools are applying elsewhere as elite universities are dragged for campus antisemitism.
UC Berkeley sued by Jewish students over 'unchecked' antisemitism
The lawsuit claims Jew hatred has "boiled over" following the terrorist group Hamas's sneak attack against Israel on Oct. 7 -- even citing statements in the complaint from Cal-Berkeley's own law...
Columbia, Cooper Union among 7 schools under federal probe for antisemitism, Islamophobia: report
Columbia, Cornell and Cooper Union are among seven schools being investigated by the Department of Education over complaints of alleged incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia, according to a report.
Nearly as many college students back Hamas as Israel: poll
Nearly as many college students support Hamas as they do Israel amid the raging Middle East war, a new survey claims.
US universities including Cornell, Harvard and MIT raked in $13B in 'undocumented contributions' from foreign donors: report
A sizable portion of the funds were said to be donated from authoritarian regimes around the globe including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China and the UAE, the report from the Network...
Cornell student's mom feared for son's mental well-being ahead of alleged antisemitic threats, would bring him home on weekends
Patrick Dai, 21, was nabbed by the feds on Halloween after he threatened to shoot up a dining hall that caters to Jewish students and execute other Jews with an...
Now's our chance to finally rein in America's race-gender hysteria
America today is the closest it’s been in a decade to recovering from its collective bout of racial and sexual hysteria.
Will universities clean house of antisemitic profs? Don't bet on it
Our universities are so far gone and the number of professors deserving of dismissal so large that every school will shrink in terror from the controversies any housecleaning will cause....
Cornell University cancels Friday classes after arrest of student Patrick Dai over antisemitic threats
Cornell University canceled classes on Friday after student Patrick Dai was arrested for making violent antisemitic threats against his Jewish classmates. The upstate New York Ivy League college said that...