An example. One of many.

“Some 400 Pennsylvania State University professors have signed a letter backing antiracism teaching and administrative practices currently being targeted by a former colleague's lawsuit against the college.

The 'Letter in Support of Antiracist Faculty at Penn State' criticizes Zack De Piero, 40, a former English professor at the college's Abington campus, as well as a lawsuit he filed claiming he and other white staff were racially discriminated against.

The 36-page lawsuit from De Piero, who served as an assistant professor of English and Composition at the campus, claims he was forced to teach that the 'English language is racist and embodies white supremacy.'

He also alleges he was forced to grade 'Hispanic and Black' students differently and was subject to exercises centered on critical race theory where white staff were made to feel 'terrible.'

The letter criticizing De Piero and his lawsuit, which was filed in June at the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, says it is just another example of 'attacks from reactionaries who claim that curricula, programs, and initiatives aimed at promoting inclusivity and equity are racist and divisive.' …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/12299011

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says it is just another example of 'attacks from reactionaries who claim that curricula, programs, and initiatives aimed at promoting inclusivity and equity are racist and divisive.'

Ah the Woke defense strategy, attack the attacker with claims of extremism in the name of your latest agenda....

Being against racial segregation is racist these days.

That's the problem, living in the academic's bubble.

You don't really have to produce any sort of results like others in the outside world. You just don't rock the boat and get to keep your job forever.
The way to stand out, in a way that is seen as good, is to go more radical. If you fail in some way, whatever that means in that environment, they blame it on being ahead of you time and cheer that on as some sort of virtue.

I always thought Pen State was a conservative college, WTH!

You don’t say

It was already a cesspool of communist/leftist filth when I went to college in the early 90s. I’d never make it in today’s environment.

Whaaaaaat? I'm shocked at this revelation.

Dennis Prager has been espousing this for YEARS. He’s waiting for his alma mater, Columbia, to change its name, as it heralds that extremist racist [gasp!] Christopher Columbus.

In other news, water is wet.

Although, the extent of this problem is surprising, and they never seem to run out of new absurdities.

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Originally posted by TBH:
I always thought Pen State was a conservative college, WTH!

No, they’ve all been infiltrated by the communists.

I’d say the only true conservative colleges left off the top of my head are Hillsdale and Grove City.

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American universities have been taken over by woke leftists

Started ~65 years ago in the 60's.

It's shocking that only whitey is racist, isn't it?

It's funny that a bunch of kids with no life experience or real responsibility, get to decide what is or isn't racist and the schools then bow down to them.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
In other news, water is wet.

My first thought upon reading the thread title.
Beat me to it.

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Originally posted by PASig:
No, they’ve all been infiltrated by the communists.
I’d say the only true conservative colleges left off the top of my head are Hillsdale and Grove City.

There are a few more. The University of Dallas is another.
But they are small, private institutions.

Billions in Foreign Aid to Colleges and Universities Goes Undetected

https://www.usnews.com/news/ed...ties-goes-undetected

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations described foreign spending on U.S. schools as a ‘black hole’ and has raised concerns about the potential strings attached.

By Lauren Camera
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Oct. 20, 2020, at 5:46 p.m.

U.S. News & World Report

Billions in Foreign Aid to Colleges Unreported


Large donations from foreign countries to American schools often go undisclosed, a new report finds.

Colleges and universities failed to disclose more than $6.5 billion in funding from foreign countries, including China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, a new federal report shows.

"The threat of improper foreign influence in higher education is real," Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said, describing a scenario in which department officials are playing catch-up on four decades of pervasive noncompliance by colleges and universities.


"Transparency in foreign funding of higher education is not just something I think is a good thing; it's the law," she said. "For too long, enforcement of that law was lax, but not anymore."

Section 117 of the Higher Education Act requires institutions of higher education to report foreign gifts and contracts.

Earlier this year, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations described foreign spending on U.S. schools as "a black hole" due to colleges and universities "routinely" failing to comply with the law, and it raised concerns about the potential strings attached to foreign money that might compromise the institutions.

The Education Department established an online portal in June to make it easier for schools to report foreign gifts and contracts valued at more than $250,000.

The portal has recorded more than 7,000 transactions totaling roughly $3.8 billion in the four months since it's been available. According to department officials, about 60 of the colleges and universities that filed through the portal had not submitted any reports between 1986 and June 2020. Their disclosures alone totaled more than $350 million during the July reporting period.


Among some of the report's most concerning revelations is that every school investigated has received funds from Huawei, the Chinese technology giant. The company had targeted the majority of its higher education funding on issues important to national security, according to the report, including nuclear science, robotics and online cloud services.

Another example that concerned department officials: Two Chinese companies are working with one university on a research project involving crowd surveillance and predictive behavior technology.

In addition, the report concluded that a large donation by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal to Georgetown University empowered the Saudis to "push a particular ideologically-driven narrative through the teaching and learning done on specific topics relevant to the Middle East."

Also suspect, the report surfaced a $25,000 sponsorship to one university from Kaspersky Government Security Solutions, a cybersecurity company with suspected ties to the Russian government, to host a cybersecurity conference.