Micaiah Bilger

United States

Assistant editor @CollegeFix Human rights are for all humans. Pro-life, pro-woman, adoption, foster care, foodie, bookworm

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History professor compares Trump admin’s ‘baby bonus’ proposal to Nazi agenda

6 days ago | thecollegefix.com | Micaiah Bilger

Plan would reduce ‘women to breeders’ and ‘second-class’ citizens, Indiana professor saysA University of Southern Indiana professor compared the Trump administration’s proposed $5,000 “baby bonus” to the Nazi fascist agenda in a recent interview.
Fears dominate report about Chinese spies at Stanford University

1 week ago | thecollegefix.com | Micaiah Bilger

Student newspaper investigates growing concerns about espionage by China’s communist governmentThe Chinese Communist Party has spies at Stanford University – but many people with knowledge of the situation are too afraid to talk, according to a new investigative report by the student newspaper. The Stanford Review based its investigation on more than a dozen interviews with faculty, students, and experts on China, concluding that “there are Chinese spies” at the California university.
As AI replaces learning, concerns grow: ‘You just don’t really have to think’

1 week ago | thecollegefix.com | Micaiah Bilger

Professor laments ‘society-wide failure to value education for its own sake’Perhaps the biggest question puzzling academics today was the subject of a lengthy new article in New York Magazine: How do we handle artificial intelligence in the classroom? “Everyone is cheating their way through college,” the article began, followed by several anecdotes from students who think nothing of having ChatGPT do their assignments for them.
Protesters throw feces, tell people to kill themselves at U. Washington Riley Gaines event

1 week ago | thecollegefix.com | Micaiah Bilger

Campus Turning Point USA chapter hosts event after protesters shut down pro-woman event in JanuaryMasked protesters at the University of Washington reportedly threw “human feces” at conservative students Tuesday during a Turning Point USA event featuring Riley Gaines and Olivia Krolczyk. Videos also show protesters following two older couples as they left the event and urging them to kill themselves.
UCLA medical school allegedly still discriminating based on race: leaked memo

1 week ago | thecollegefix.com | Micaiah Bilger

Admissions committee must ‘ensure representation from those who identify as BIPOC and LGBTQ+,’ memo statesA leaked memo sent to University of California Los Angeles medical students appears to show the institution is still discriminating on the basis of race in its admissions office. The memo, published at the Washington Free Beacon, outlines a list of “Guiding Principles for Student Representation” on the UCLA School of Medicine Admissions Committee.
Swarthmore College clears out anti-Israel encampment, 9 arrested

1 week ago | thecollegefix.com | Micaiah Bilger

Swarthmore College clears out anti-Israel encampment, 9 arrested Campus leaders say they found vandalism ‘celebrating violence and promoting hate’Police arrested nine pro-Palestinian protesters at Swarthmore College and charged them with trespassing over the weekend after they allegedly ignored repeated warnings to leave.
Trump says he’ll follow through on ending Harvard’s tax-exempt status

1 week ago | thecollegefix.com | Micaiah Bilger

Watchdog report: Harvard’s endowment grew $14 billion in past six years, while receiving $4.4 billion in federal tax dollarsPresident Donald Trump warned Harvard University on Friday that its tax-exempt status could soon be gone, as the fight between the Republican administration and the Ivy League school ramps up. “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” the president wrote Friday morning on Truth Social.
Iowa may require professors to publish class materials online for public review

2 weeks ago | thecollegefix.com | Micaiah Bilger

Regents say the change would add greater oversight to public universitiesProfessors at Iowa public universities soon could be required to publish their class syllabi and required reading materials online under a proposed policy. The Iowa Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s three public universities, considered the “Syllabi Posting” policy during its meeting last week, The Gazette first reported.
Harvard ends racially segregated grad ceremonies, renames DEI office amid battle with Trump

2 weeks ago | thecollegefix.com | Micaiah Bilger

Harvard ends racially segregated grad ceremonies, renames DEI office amid battle with Trump Ivy League school had special, separate ceremonies for ‘Arab, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, first-generation, low-income’ students, and more Harvard University is ending its tradition of hosting special, racially segregated graduation ceremonies and is renaming its Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging amid a fierce battle with the Trump administration, with the moves seen by some as a...
U. Michigan blows own deadline for handing over documents on Lori Lightfoot’s teaching gig

2 weeks ago | thecollegefix.com | Micaiah Bilger

ANALYSIS: University public records office says it has an ‘unprecedented backlog,’ and requests have doubled since 2014. The University of Michigan has not produced a syllabus for a class taught by former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in the fall of 2024, more than six months after The College Fix made the request. The public university initially promised a response by Oct. 22 when The Fix first made its request Sept. 30.