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UC Berkeley task force targets ‘anti-Fatness,’ links it to 'anti-Black racism'
UC Berkeley health officials are promoting a 'Body Diversity and Weight Inclusion' effort tied to 'anti-Black raci…
By Brendan  McDonald '25
Dec 2, 2025
DOJ targets California law that gives illegal aliens lower tuition rates than American students
For over two decades, the California Dream Act has required public colleges and universities to offer in-state tuit…
By Emily Sturge  
Dec 2, 2025
Department of Education investigating UC Berkeley over potential Clery Act violation
The Clery Act gives the Department of Education broad authority to review universities that receive federal funding…
By Jared Harris 
Nov 26, 2025
Cal State system mandates DEI graduation courses including ‘Queer Crip Lit’ and ‘Chican@/Latinx Lives’
A new report shows nearly every Cal State university still requires DEI-focused classes for graduation, even as fed…
By Brendan  McDonald '25
Nov 25, 2025
California sees record exodus of college-bound students
This net loss has nearly quadrupled in the past two decades. In 2002, just 8.5% of California high school graduates…
By Jared Harris 
Nov 22, 2025
New report says CAIR provided $1k checks, other aid to pro-Palestine campus protesters
A new report alleges the Council on American-Islamic Relations’s California organization (CAIR-California) has funn…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Nov 21, 2025
DOJ sues California for giving illegal immigrants better college benefits than U.S. citizens
The Department of Justice has filed a third lawsuit in one week against California Governor Gavin Newsom, this time…
By Jared Harris 
Nov 21, 2025
Christian university denies application to start TPUSA chapter a third time, students start off-campus group
Point Loma Nazarene University’s student government recently voted to deny an official charter to a TPUSA chapter f…
By Austin Browne  '24
Nov 19, 2025
Faith and Freedom Night canceled at Stanford amid threats and high security costs
The Stanford America Club says thousands in projected security fees made the event financially impossible.
By Sophia Chavarria '27
Nov 19, 2025
US Assistant Attorney General visits Berkeley following unrest, school agrees to cooperate with investigation
The US assistant AG visited UC Berkeley and met with the TPUSA chapter president to discuss a DOJ investigation int…
By Austin Browne  '24
Nov 18, 2025
Lawsuit claims Chapman University ignored anti-Jewish discrimination and death threats
A new lawsuit alleges that Chapman University allowed discriminatory treatment of Jewish students, including blocki…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Nov 17, 2025
UC Berkeley protesters harass TPUSA attendees, DOJ investigates
The final 'This is the Turning Point' tour event was held at the University of California, Berkeley as large, aggre…
By Tybee Sikes '26
Nov 15, 2025
DOJ investigation into violent UC Berkeley protests must examine who is behind them
The Department of Justice announced it will investigate violent protests that erupted ahead of a Turning Point USA …
By Jared Harris 
Nov 14, 2025
UCLA accused of offering race- and sex-based scholarships in new civil rights complaint
The Equal Protection Project filed a civil rights complaint against UCLA, alleging that multiple scholarships unlaw…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Nov 13, 2025
Fresno State pledges ICE warnings under new California law
California State University, Fresno, announced it will send campus-wide notifications if federal immigration agents…
By CJ Womack '25
Nov 12, 2025
University of California can hire undocumented students as California court declines to intervene
The California Supreme Court declined to review a lower court decision that found UC's policy barring undocumented …
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Nov 7, 2025
UC System requires students to pass training affirming transgender policies or face class registration holds
The University of California System’s SHAPE program is a state-mandated sexual harassment training for students.
By Michael Duke '26
Nov 6, 2025
Lily Kate to speak at CSU-Fresno on “Reclaiming Femininity” and choosing tradition over modern feminism
Event hosted by Network of enlightened Women and the Leadership Institute encourages students to embrace authentic,…
By Jared Harris 
Nov 2, 2025
Stanford University shutting down 'Diversifying Academia' fellowship program
The university is phasing out a flagship diversity program amid new federal rules and shrinking budgets.
By Jared Harris 
Oct 31, 2025
New reports finds DEI presence at three technical universities
The reports from the National Association of Scholars detail the expansion of DEI at MIT, Caltech, and Georgia Tech…
By Brendan  McDonald '25
Oct 29, 2025
UC Berkeley course promotes ‘Abolish ICE’ movement, calls agency a ‘racist deportation force’
Course readings, such as “It’s Time to Abolish ICE” and “Trump Wants to Take Away Your Citizenship,” refer to Immig…
By Emily Sturge  
Oct 27, 2025
Pomona College to discipline masked agitators who stormed Hamas victim memorial
Pomona College in Claremont, California has vowed to discipline pro-Hamas activists who disrupted a campus memorial…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Oct 23, 2025
San Diego race-based scholarship fund rebrands after legal challenge
The recently concluded suit alleged that the university violated the Ku Klux Klan Act.
By Lewis  Thune  '26
Oct 22, 2025
Student activists are planning to carry on protesting against Israel despite recent peace deal 
Anti-Israel campus protests won’t be ending anytime soon despite the recent peace deal that brought a ceasefire to …
By Austin Browne  '24
Oct 20, 2025
UC Davis offers 'weight stigma' guide so students can 'create fatphobia-free spaces'
‘Weight stigma’ guide tells smaller people to '[r]efrain from giving unsolicited diet or fitness advice.'
By Claire  Harrington '25
Oct 18, 2025
Whittier College rebrands DEI office citing Quaker values
College claims name change reflects Quaker values, but timing aligns with Trump’s Executive Order 14151 targeting D…
By CJ Womack '25
Oct 15, 2025
Setback for reparations movement as bill to give college admissions preference is vetoed
California Governor Gavin Newsom argued colleges and universities already have the ability to consider the preferen…
By Jared Harris 
Oct 14, 2025
Activists demand UC Berkeley send archive to Gaza or set it on fire
The University of California, Berkeley’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) called on the school’s …
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Oct 8, 2025
Stanford students face felony charges after violent pro-Palestine protest
Eleven Stanford students were indicted on felony vandalism and trespassing charges for a June 2024 pro-Palestine pr…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Oct 8, 2025
Gavin Newsom threatens to 'instantly' cut funds from schools that sign Trump's compact
The administration of President Donald Trump issued the higher education compact to nine schools initially, althoug…
By Jared Harris 
Oct 3, 2025
San Jose State faces wrongful termination lawsuit from coach who opposed male participation in women’s volleyball
Melissa Batie-Smoose is suing the California State University system, alleging she was wrongfully terminated after …
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Oct 1, 2025
Trump admin opens probe into Cal State University system
The Trump administration's sweeping action will affect campuses across the California State University system
By Jared Harris 
Sep 30, 2025
Princeton Gerrymandering Project gives California’s AB 604 a grade ‘F’ rating
The Princeton Gerrymandering Project warns that the bill dismantles independent map-drawing and locks in partisan a…
By CJ Womack '25
Sep 25, 2025
California passes bill to allow slavery lineage in admissions despite affirmative action bans
The California State Legislature passed Assembly Bill 7, which would allow universities to consider applicants’ lin…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Sep 25, 2025
Four California universities will host LGBTQ programming this fall
LGBTQ resource centers at several University of California campuses are organizing welcome week events centered aro…
By Will Biagini  
Sep 22, 2025
UCLA suspends official who cheered Charlie Kirk’s death, after scrubbing DEI website
Johnathan Perkins, UCLA’s director of race and equity, called Kirk’s death 'chickens coming home to roost' before d…
By CJ Womack '25
Sep 17, 2025
Trump admin's plan for UCLA includes $1B fine, affirmation of two genders, end to trans procedures on minors: REPORT
A 28-page settlement from the Trump administration demands UCLA create a $172M civil rights reparations fund, and p…
By Alessia Degraeve 
Sep 16, 2025
Campus protesters mock Charlie Kirk’s death, echo radical rhetoric from pro-Palestinian encampments
From 'Strike for Gaza' to mocking a conservative leader’s assassination, a troubling overlap emerges on campuses.
By CJ Womack '25
Sep 15, 2025
Anti-Semitic ‘wanted’ posters targeting Jewish regents found at UC Berkeley
Threatening posters targeting Jewish UC Regents were found at UC Berkeley, prompting a campus police investigation.…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Sep 11, 2025
California State University professor indicted for attacking federal agents during marijuana farm raid
A CSU Channel Islands professor, Jonathan Caravello, has been federally indicted for allegedly throwing a tear gas …
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Sep 8, 2025
Berkeley prof says Israel wants to seize Mecca and Medina, accuses Jews of profiting from anti-Semitism
A professor at the University of California, Berkeley is facing scrutiny after promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy th…
By Patrick  McDonald '26
Sep 6, 2025
Teachers union bankrolls Newsom’s redistricting push ahead of 2025 vote
California’s largest teachers union gave $3 million to a campaign backing Gov. Newsom’s redistricting law.
By CJ Womack '25
Aug 27, 2025
UC Berkeley sued for rejecting Israeli professor over national origin
The case comes as Berkeley faces multiple complaints alleging hostile climate for Jewish and Israeli students.
By Benjamin Brown '26
Aug 22, 2025
SFSU program offers courses promoting ‘undocumented studies,’ border resistance
San Francisco State University (SFSU) is offering multiple courses this semester through its Race and Resistance St…
By Claire  Harrington '25
Aug 22, 2025
UC Berkeley ends waiver program that was used as a pipeline to tenure for activists: REPORT
A hiring policy that allegedly funneled political activists into faculty roles has apparently been scrapped by UC B…
By Campus Reform 
Aug 21, 2025
Newsom rejects settlement to restore funding to UCLA, vows to ‘fight like hell’ against Trump admin
Trump administration sought to force UCLA to end race-based scholarships and gender-affirming care in exchange for …
By Benjamin Brown '26
Aug 20, 2025
Syllabus data reveals rise of leftist authors in college, decline of classical authors
A Campus Reform analysis of syllabi data from 2008 to 2019 found a steady decline in classical authors, while lefti…
By Daisy Roser '26
Aug 19, 2025
Man sues Westcliff University after losing women’s volleyball scholarship
Emma Morquecho, a 33-year-old man who identifies as a woman, is suing Westcliff University in Irvine, California af…
By Simon Olech  '28
Aug 18, 2025
UCLA raked in billions from feds while pushing DEI, anti-Israel ideology: REPORT
The recent report notes how UCLA has received more than $4.3 billion in federal grants and contracts in less than f…
By Daisy Roser '26
Aug 18, 2025
County Board of Education bans transgender athletes from girls' sports
The board's resolution affirms its interpretation of Title IX as protecting competitive fairness in women's athleti…
By Campus Reform 
Aug 15, 2025