Bradley, who describes himself as a libertarian, philosophically speaking, argued that “the whole point of life is to be open,” and “It’s OK to be a religious person. It’s OK not to be a religious person.”
Batshit crazy Universities
Defunding police, segregation, and speech crackdowns: 2020’s craziest campus stories
2020 was the year that unleashed COVID-19, the “defund the police” and Black Lives Matter movements, and an intense presidential election.
The year was no less chaotic on college campuses, despite most in-person courses shifting to online-only classes.
Campus Reform compiled a list of the craziest campus stories of 2020.
Those were the days… Pic – Delta Delta Delta, Texas University of Texas, Austin 1944
At last! First signs arrive that shortage of students is causing tuition cuts at brand-name private colleges
The prestige sector of higher education – private colleges and universities reject a large portion of applicants – has resembled a cartel for decades. Since the late 1950s, every year has the tuition charged by competitive colleges rise by 5 to 10 percent, with most such schools’ tuition staying within a few hundred dollars of each other. A financial aid nonprofit estimates average tuition hikes are about 8% per year, at which pace the cost of college doubles every 9 years.
Cornell offers ‘person of color’ exemption for flu vaccine requirement
Students at Cornell University can use their status as a “person of color” to be exempt from the university’s flu vaccine requirement.
“Students who identify as Black, Indigenous, or as a Person of Color (BIPOC) may have personal concerns about fulfilling the Compact requirements based on historical injustices and current events,” explains Cornell Health’s vaccine requirement FAQ.
Bribed: Subverting American Universities
A recent governmental report exposes the “purchased” influence foreign nations have on America’s most prestigious universities and, as a result, on what America’s current and upcoming generations of analysts and policymakers will think and believe.
More than one-third of the nearly $20 billion in foreign donations and contracts made to American universities between just 2014 and 2020 were never disclosed as required by federal law, according to “Institutional Compliance with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965,” a Department of Education report released on October 20, 2020.
Among those “gifts” were more than $3 billion from the Muslim Brotherhood’s number one state backer, Qatar; more than $1.1 billion from the chief disseminator of “radical” Islamic ideology, Saudi Arabia; and nearly $1.5 billion from China.