Aaron Sibarium

2 days ago | freebeacon.com | Aaron Sibarium |Eliana Johnson

Former Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong will return to her role as CEO of Columbia’s medical center in June, according to people familiar with the matter, just a month after going on sabbatical "to spend time with her family" in the wake of a disastrous deposition in which she said she could not recall in detail a single anti-Semitic incident on campus.

5 days ago | freebeacon.com | Aaron Sibarium

Former vice president Mike Pence offered a qualified defense on Thursday of the Trump administration’s assault on Harvard University, endorsing the decision to freeze federal aid but warning that revoking the school’s tax-exempt status could be a "slippery slope."In an interview with Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson, Pence said it was legitimate for the government to cut funds to universities that do not take steps to confront anti-Semitism.

6 days ago | freebeacon.com | Aaron Sibarium

UCLA medical school was sued for race discrimination on Thursday after whistleblowers alleged that the school holds black and Latino applicants to a lower standard than their white and Asian counterparts, the latest challenge for a beleaguered university already in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. The complaint is based on multiple Washington Free Beacon reports about the extent of racial preferences at the medical school.

1 week ago | freebeacon.com | Aaron Sibarium

The Department of Health and Human Services launched a civil rights investigation in March into the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. The probe, HHS said in a press release, would investigate whether the school’s admissions office discriminates based on race. Less than two weeks later, UCLA instructed admissions officers to do exactly that.

1 week ago | freebeacon.com | Aaron Sibarium

The Trump administration announced on Monday that it was investigating the Harvard Law Review over allegations of race discrimination.