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  1. The #Trump admin has initiated several investigations into #GMU’s #DEI practices, which has led some at the university to worry that Washington could suffer a similar fate to Ryan. At a board meeting early this month, Washington’s supporters worried the school’s governing body — which is made up entirely of appointees by #Republican Gov #GlennYoungkin — could fire the school’s first #Black president. The board instead gave him a state-mandated raise.

    #law #AcademicFreedom #GeorgeMasonUniversity

  2. In a proposed resolution agreement, the #Education dept’s Office of *#CivilRights* asked President Gregory Washington to issue an apology to the #GMU community, conduct trainings to ensure #race is not used in any #university policy & revise policies as necessary.

    In a statement, Acting Asst Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor alleged Washington implemented “unlawful #DEI policies that intentionally *discriminate* on the basis of race.”

    #Trump #law #AcademicFreedom #GeorgeMasonUniversity

  3. #Education Dept finds #GeorgeMasonUniversity violated *civil rights* over #DEI policies

    The #Trump admin launched investigations into #GMU’s DEI practices this summer, an effort some worried could lead to President Gregory Washington’s ousting.

    The Education Dept has concluded George Mason University violated Title VI of the #CivilRights act by using race in hiring & promotion, the dept announced Friday.

    #law #AcademicFreedom
    washingtonpost.com/education/2

  4. and #GeorgeMasonUniversity.

    There’s already evidence that such relationships can sway the direction of academic studies. Reports published in 2009 and 2010 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and #StanfordUniversity — all of which received significant funding from #oilcompanies — were biased in favor of #naturalgas compared to independent research, one study published in the journal #Nature in 2022 found.

  5. 💼 BIC Board Member Sydney Johns, Dir. of Career Services at George Mason University's National Society of Black Engineers.

    ✊🏾GMU NSBE had an introduction to BIC HQ and interview practice!

    #BlacksInCyber #BlacksInCybersecurity #LitLikeBIC #CareerServices #GMU #GeorgeMasonUniversity #2Hype

  6. @JoParkerBear Isn’t #GeorgeMasonUniversity where Charles Koch & James Buchanan hooked up to begin the #RW attack on #civilrights after #BrownvBoardofEducation ? It’s essentially fascist U.

  7. 2008, Koch was included in #Businessweek's list of top 50 American givers. Between 2004 and 2008, #Koch gave $246 million, focusing on "#libertarian causes, giving money for #academic and #publicpolicy #research and #socialwelfare."[Yeah right] [49] Koch was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from #GeorgeMasonUniversity in recognition of his financial support "through scholarships, faculty recruitment, and research grants".[50] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_

  8. Advancing White Supremacy Through Academic Strategy

    ... The report’s chapters describe the interwoven infrastructure of neo-confederate scholars, funded by the Charles Koch Foundation, who are training and recruiting the next generation of anti-civil rights Austrian economists. We explore the dangerous ideologies involved in this network, past and present, including recent influence on the violent Alt-Right and Neo-Nazis.

    Other chapters highlight the Koch family’s involvement in Nazi sympathizing, efforts to oppose the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and the present-day Koch network’s effort to roll-back opposing civil rights.

    We believe that understanding the Charles Koch Foundation’s material support for, and ideological confluence with, a network of Neo-Confederate and white nationalist scholars is integral to understanding the Koch-network’s past and present efforts to resegregate our nation’s schools, dismantle voting rights, and expand the prison industrial complex -- all at the expense of people of color. ...

    unkochmycampus.org/los-preface

    #KochBrothers #CharlesKoch #KochFoundation #KochIndustries #WhiteNationalism #WhiteNationalists #CharlesKochFoundation #NeoConfederatcy #KochNetwork #GeorgeMasonUniversity #MercatusCenter #ALEC #HeritageFoundation #CatoInstitute