Senate bill to tighten controls on Confucius Institutes
CNBC 13 March 2021
The United States Senate on Thursday 4 March approved by unanimous consent a bill that would increase oversight on Confucius Institutes, China-funded cultural centres that operate on university campuses. The bill would cut federal funds to universities and colleges that have Confucius Institutes that fail to comply with new oversight rules and regulations, writes Christian Nunley for
CNBC.
According to Human Rights Watch, Confucius Institutes “are Chinese government-funded outposts that offer Chinese language and culture classes”. However, some politicians, particularly Republicans, have accused them of spreading propaganda. “Confucius Institutes are under the control of the Chinese Communist Party in all but name,” said Senator John Kennedy, Republican-Louisiana, who introduced the bill. “This bill would give colleges and universities full control over their resident Confucius Institutes a
Georgetown Law Prof Fired for Telling the Truth
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Georgetown Law Prof Fired for Telling the Truth
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By Hans Bader | March 11, 2021 | 5:19pm EST
Featured is part of Georgetown University s campus. (Photo credit: DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)
A law professor at Georgetown University has been fired for pointing out that black students got lower grades in her classes. This was not due to racism. Black students get lower grades at selective colleges because they are admitted with lower grades and test scores than their non-black classmates, due to racial preferences in admissions at schools like Georgetown.
Recipients of non-racial preferences in admissions also get lower grades at the schools that admit them. I received lower than average grades as a student at Harvard Law School. Why? I was admitted with lower-than average credentials than most of my classmates (because I pledged to go into public-interest law afterwards). So I was less prepared than most of my classmates, and occasionally had to struggle to keep up with my clas