https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/us/politics/anti-israel-bias-higher-education.html U.S. Orders Duke and U.N.C. to Recast Tone in Mideast Studies WASHINGTON — The Education Department has ordered Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to remake the Middle East studies program run jointly by the two schools after concluding that it was offering students a biased curriculum that, among other complaints, did not present enough “positive” imagery of Judaism and Christianity in the region. In a rare instance of federal intervention in college course content, the department asserted that the universities’ Middle East program violated the standards of a federal program that awards funding to international studies and foreign language programs. The inquiry was part of a far-reaching investigation into the program by the department, which under Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, has become increasingly aggressive in going after perceived anti-Israel bias in higher education. In this case, the department homed in on what officials saw as a program that focused on the region’s Muslim population at the expense of its religious minorities. In the North Carolina program’s outreach to elementary and secondary school students, the department said, there was “a considerable emphasis placed on the understanding the positive aspects of Islam, while there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity, Judaism or any other religion or belief system in the Middle East.” “They really want to send the message that if you want to criticize Israel, then the federal government is going to look very closely at your entire program and micromanage it to death,” said Zoha Khalili, a staff lawyer at Palestine Legal, one such group. The department’s intervention, she added, “sends a message to Middle Eastern studies programs that their continued existence depends on their willingness to toe the government line on Israel.” The administration ordered the consortium to submit a revised schedule of events it planned to support and a full list of the courses it offers and the professors working in its Middle East studies program. The department also directed the consortium to demonstrate that it had “effective institutional controls” to stay compliant with the administration’s interpretation of the Higher Education Act. The universities were given until Sept. 22, only days before the department is scheduled to approve funding on Sept. 30.
They should just condense all religious studies into one class titled, they're all nuts. That said, if you're going to suck on the government tit, the government will have some say as to how much milk you get and when you get it.
%% Good news; + let Saudi Arabia pay for that in Saudi Arabia . NYT + Washington comPost are such God haters + Gunhaters/Republican+Israel Haters. I could get real surprised if NYT /Washington comPost ever told much truth.LOL Like the WSJ full page ad says ; Wage War on Waste -Cut 10%
Separation just isn't realistic when money is involved. The religious community has had far too much influence in politics for far too long in my not so humble opinion. If it were up to me they'd be paying taxes to express that opinion. On the educational front, especially at the post secondary level, there is a left leaning political bias which has them pushing the positives of Islam while pointing out the many negatives of the other organized religions, especially those of the west. I don't really care what crazy shit they teach at that level of the educational system unless my tax dollars are used to teach it. Then it becomes my business. Don't want my input,then get your hand out of my wallet and they can teach whatever nutty belief system they want. I'm much more concerned with what they're teaching to, aka indoctrinating, young children, very young children. We're grooming an entire generation of mental and sexual misfits.
I won't pretend to know one way or the other, but I find that hard to believe. Unless there may have been an attempt to balance a disproportionately negative bias. But they're all the same and well past their best-before date. But don't take my word for it:
My problem is for years the Christians were pushing their morality and views into the educational system for a long time too and indoctrinating children. Now they are swinging the other way and both suck. Religion should be kept out entirely except maybe in history class because that is not teaching theology. If you want religion in your classroom send your kid to a Catholic, Jewish or Islam school. If you choose public, keep your religion in your pants.
There is no government "tit." It's your "tit" and mine. And no, the "government" should not have a say in these matters. If you want to get the Christian point of view go to Liberty University. You want the Jewish point of view, then go to Yeshiva. In both democracies and dictatorships there are multiple points of view. Only in democracies, however, are you free to express virtually any point of view. Are we on our way to becoming a dictatorship?