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American University is investigating eight law students for criticizing, in a private group chat, the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. FIRE called it an “absolute abomination.”
Today, PEN America and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) sent a joint letter to the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Education Board of Trustees (IHL) opposing recent changes to the tenure award process for faculty at the eight Mississippi public universities.
The college said the backlash was not a factor in its decision to remove Edmund Santurri as director of the Institute for Freedom and Community.
Pomona College. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. In a statement released Tuesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) condemned a BDS bill passed by Pomona College’s student government that seeks to defund student clubs that do not endorse the boycott — which could put campus organizations such as Hillel and Chabad at risk if they fail to divest from a United Nations Human Rights Council-drafted blacklist of major Israeli and American businesses. “We urge Pomona’s student government to reject calls to mandate support of a boycott,” FIRE’s letter stated, arguing tha...
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