OMG! A Demtard making "self-serving, self-aggrandizing, and not entirely true claims"???? What a shock.

Quote:EXCLUSIVE: Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'Touted as a Foremost Expert' on Radical Islam and Was Studying for an Oxford PhD—But His Thesis Is 'Missing' and There's No Evidence He Was Ever a Doctoral Student 

As he positions himself as a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, the governor with the golden résumé is likely to face mounting scrutiny for repeated exaggerations and falsehoods regarding his athletic, academic, and military achievements


Wes Moore (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Andrew Kerr
December 11, 2025

Maryland governor Wes Moore, now considered a serious prospect for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, got his big break in 2006. Fresh off a one-year deployment to Afghanistan, President George W. Bush awarded Moore, then 27, a White House fellowship, a prestigious, year-long internship during which he served as a special assistant to then-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. It put Moore on the path to ultimately becoming Maryland's governor, and he won the fellowship—in the turbulent years after 9/11—claiming to be a "foremost expert" on radical Islam thanks to his academic work at Oxford University.

"As a Rhodes Scholar, I took advantage of the opportunity and examined radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere," Moore wrote in his application to serve as a White House fellow, indicating that he had graduated from Oxford in 2003 with a Master of Letters, or MLitt, in international relations. "I completed my degree with honors and my research has led me to be touted as one of the foremost experts on the threat." The White House parroted the claim in a press release announcing the 2006 fellowship class, borrowing from Moore's application to note that his Oxford thesis, which it said was titled The Rise and Ramifications of Radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere, had "earned him praise as one of the foremost experts on the topic."

That a 27-year-old could claim to be a "foremost expert" on the Islamic threat based on a year at an American military base in Afghanistan and two years at Oxford could be excused away as an ambitious young man's puffery. But on close examination, Moore's claims of expertise and of being a serious scholar completely unravel, as do his claims, also on his White House fellowship application, that he was working toward an Oxford doctorate.

The problems start with confusion—which neither Moore's staff nor Oxford's registrars were willing or able to clear up—about when Moore completed his studies, when he received his degree, whether he submitted his thesis, and what the title of the work was.

In his White House fellowship application—which is public record—Moore wrote that he graduated from Oxford in 2003. But in the résumé attached to that application, Moore reported a different graduation date: June 2004.

Asked to reconcile the two dates, a spokesman for the governor didn't provide a photograph of Moore's degree, but rather, a "degree confirmation," generated last week by Oxford's registrar's office, indicating Moore completed his graduate studies as a full-time student and "has been awarded the degree," but has not yet been issued a formal certificate. The "degree confirmation" generated by Oxford gives another contradictory date, showing that Moore completed his full-time graduate studies in November of 2005, a full four years after he began his Oxford studies, though a master's degree typically takes two years to earn.

According to Moore, by November 2005, the month when Oxford now says Moore completed his master's studies, he was serving in the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan. He also says he began working as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank in London in March 2004.

That's just the beginning of the peculiarities and inconsistencies surrounding Moore's graduate studies, which a spokesman for the governor, Ammar Moussa, dismissed—after several off-the-record conversations—by saying the Washington Free Beacon is not "engaged in journalism" and is "doing what they always do: manufacturing doubt about the accomplishments of a Black veteran, Rhodes Scholar, and public servant because it fits their narrative."

The story does fit a narrative, Moussa is right about that. But it is one that is likely to be problematic for Moore, just as it was for Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) when he stepped onto the national stage. The narrative, backed now by well-established matters of fact, is that when you scratch the surface of many of Moore's braggadocious claims, there is something off, something a little untruthful about them. Moore claims to have been a doctoral candidate after he received his master's degree, for example, but he and Oxford declined to provide the name of his academic adviser or any evidence he was enrolled as such.

Moore may mock and dismiss reportorial scrutiny, or point the finger at those conducting it—perhaps he, too, can be a knucklehead at times—but when the Minnesota governor came under the klieg lights, those who asked questions were vindicated.

Moussa declined to answer a single question directly, including why Moore's "degree confirmation" from Oxford provides a different title for his thesis than what he stated in his White House fellowship application.

According to the Oxford certificate, the title of Moore's thesis was Radical Islam in Latin America in the late 20th Century and its Middle Eastern Roots. But in his application to the White House, and in all subsequent biographies, Moore says his thesis was called The Rise and Ramifications of Radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere. The reference to Latin America has been removed, creating the impression that Moore's supposed expertise is on Islamic radicals in the "Western Hemisphere," including their "rise" in the United States. The new title also removes the timeframe of "the late 20th century" (the 21st century was 6 years old at the time), making Moore's area of study more timely.

The new thesis name fits well with the sense of urgency in the mid-2000s about finding Islamic radicals in the United States and would have made Moore a more attractive applicant to Bush administration foreign policy hands, who viewed Central and South America as incidental to the war on terror. So did Moore change the title of his thesis long after it was written and submitted? Or did he change the title and subject matter of his thesis before its completion and submission?

An Oxford classmate told the Free Beacon he remembers Moore from the time and recalls him expressing interest in radical Islam. "I remember him talking about terrorism in the Tri-Border area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay," said David Adesnik, the vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who was named a Rhodes Scholar in 2000 and received a master's and doctorate in international relations at Oxford.

The mystery surrounding the title of and content of Moore's thesis could be resolved with a cursory review of the document. But that, too, poses a problem for Moore. His office could not produce a copy of the document since we began requesting it in early November.

And good luck finding it at Oxford's legendary Bodleian Library, which archives all MLitt theses from the university's graduate students. A senior librarian told the Free Beacon she couldn't find "any trace" of Moore's paper, because he never submitted it.

"I can see on his record that he has not submitted his thesis to the Bodleian, so they wouldn't have a record of it," Oxford deputy communications chief Julia Paolitto told the Free Beacon. "MLitt students are required to submit their thesis to the Bodleian in order to confer their degree at a ceremony, however as Mr. Moore has never had a ceremony this is not a requirement he would have needed to fulfil."

Paolitto's confirmation that Moore did not submit his thesis puts the governor in a tough position. Moussa, his press secretary, insisted that Moore submitted his thesis and said the Free Beacon would be spreading a conspiracy theory by suggesting otherwise.

"Wes Moore completed and submitted his thesis when he was at Oxford, before he went on to serve his country in Afghanistan and used his expertise in the White House, full stop," Moussa told the Free Beacon. "Any insinuation otherwise is a desperate attempt by a partisan outlet to launder baseless opposition research into a 'story.'"

"The Free Beacon isn't engaged in journalism," Moussa added, after speaking off-the-record with this reporter for a total of 36 minutes over the weekend. "We’ll continue doing the work for the people of Maryland while they keep digging for conspiracy theories that don’t exist."

So long as Moore is unable to find a copy of his thesis and submit it to the Bodleian Library, he cannot walk at an Oxford graduation ceremony and obtain his formal master's certificate.

The confusion about when and where Moore was when he was doing his graduate studies—along with the convenient change in the title and subject matter of his missing thesis—is part of a pattern of self-serving, self-aggrandizing, and not entirely true claims that have persistently dogged, yet heretofore not tripped up, the ambitious Democrat.

Moore claimed on his 2006 White House fellowship application, for example, to have been inducted into the Maryland College Football Hall of Fame, an organization that doesn't exist; that he received a Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan, which he had not; and that he was born in Baltimore, which he was not.

Moore, who was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, a comfortable Washington, D.C., suburb, and went to high school in Pennsylvania, said in August 2024 that his false claim to have received a Bronze Star in that 2006 application was an "honest mistake." When Moore became governor, two decades after his service, he received the honor in a private ceremony at the governor's mansion after a general who supervised him in Afghanistan, Michael Fenzel, a close friend who served as a groomsman in his wedding, "resubmitted" the needed paperwork.

The problems surrounding Moore's academic claims extend beyond his missing and title-shifting graduate thesis. He also claimed in his White House fellowship application that he went on to become a doctoral candidate at Oxford in 2006, studying for a Ph.D. The prerequisite for doctoral work is usually the completion of a master's degree. It also requires the cooperation and oversight of an academic adviser, and typically doctoral students are formally enrolled at the university.

But Moore's office declined to provide the name of his academic adviser or any evidence confirming he was ever a doctoral candidate. Oxford's Wolfson College, where Moore was admitted as a graduate student, the university's Department of Politics and International Relations, and the Rhodes House all declined to verify Moore's doctoral candidacy claim.

The questions and discrepancies surrounding Moore's missing graduate thesis notwithstanding, his claim to be a "foremost expert" on the threat of radical Islam is ridiculous.

"I have never come across Gov. Moore's name in the course of my academic life," said the French political scientist Gilles Kepel, described by the New York Times as "France's most famous scholar of Islam."

Several other prominent academics in the field, including Lorenzo Vidino, the director of the Program of Extremism at George Washington University, said they've never heard of Moore in the context of any scholarly work.

"I have been studying political Islam in the West for the last 25 years and Moore's name has never popped up on my radar," Vidino told the Free Beacon. "It's a small, niche field, I'd know."

Former CIA case officer Reuel Marc Gerecht, now a scholar of Islamic terrorism at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said he's never heard of Moore in the context of his expertise in Islamic terrorism.

"If there was an up-and-coming scholar in radical Islam, if he had written something novel, then yes, I would certainly have heard of it," Gerecht said. "This is news to me."

Moore's 2014 memoir, The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters, contains most of the known details on Moore's supposed academic expertise.

There, Moore said he decided to study radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere when he was named a Rhodes Scholar in late 2000. Claiming some perspicacity, Moore wrote that after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, his "niche research area" had become "the entire world's urgent concern." According to Moore, when he was at Oxford, the subject was "too new and nebulous" and his research "couldn't be done in libraries."

Gerecht disputed Moore's assertion that the study of radical Islam in the Western Hemisphere was a "niche research area" before 9/11.

"That's not true," Gerecht told the Free Beacon. "There was a fair amount of writing about Shiite militancy in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in Latin America. There was quite a bit of discussion about Hezbollah and the attempt to radicalize Lebanese Shiite expatriate communities."

Scholars, journalists, and intelligence analysts had been closely focused on Western terror threats for many years, certainly since the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and earlier, in 1992, when a Hezbollah-linked suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with explosives at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 29 people.

Still, Moore wrote that he had no choice but to travel the world to learn about radical Islam first-hand in between his classes at Oxford (the Rhodes Scholarship funds travel for its winners).

It was during these travels that Moore learned how to "code switch," the future governor wrote.

"I hung out at mosques in southern Lebanon, spoke with government officials and shopkeepers in Syria, smoked hookah pipes with young revolutionaries in Cairo, and traveled down to Foz de Iguazu with a former Argentinean intelligence officer," Moore wrote, adding that he accomplished all of this with a tenuous grasp on the Arabic language.

"I grew out the hair on the top of my head, let a patchy beard sprout on my face, grabbed my passport, and went," Moore wrote. "I tried to be a silent chameleon, watching subjects, movements, and tendencies. I tried to fit in, despite my former college football player's frame, the oddness of being a black man in some of the areas I visited, and the occasional Baltimore twang inflecting my broken Spanish or Arabic."

"This is what I've come to think of as the code-switching bonus—a reluctant survival tactic for a kid from the Bronx or Baltimore turned into a life skill," he wrote.

Moore, of course, didn't live in Baltimore until he attended college at the elite Johns Hopkins University, where he's unlikely to have picked up "a Baltimore twang." While living as a child in the Bronx, he attended the exclusive Riverdale Country School, where John and Robert F. Kennedy also went. He left the school for a military academy after he was facing expulsion for graffiti and other infractions.

As evidence of his expertise, Moore said in his White House fellowship application that, by 2006, he had authored four articles and was "featured in two books on the threat of radical Islam in Latin America."

His office could not locate the four articles. Academic databases, including Google Scholar and JSTOR, contain precisely zero articles by Moore on the topic of radical Islam, nor do the databases contain any scholarly works that cite Moore's thesis or any other scholarly works as a source.

Moore did make contributions to two books, both published by the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs, a nonprofit think tank founded by Moore's friend Fenzel. In one book, The Faces of Intelligence Reform, a collection of essays from junior national security leaders, Moore contributed a 773-word essay—not about radical Islam—praising the George W. Bush administration for establishing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Moore produced no original research for the essay.

Moore's contribution to a second book, Beyond The Campaign, was a researched essay about radical Islam in the Tri-Border region of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

Moore's office pointed the Free Beacon to one of his sources for that essay, the journalist Sebastian Junger, author of the bestselling nonfiction book about Massachusetts commercial fishermen, The Perfect Storm, which was made into a George Clooney movie. Junger told the Free Beacon he spoke with Moore sometime in 2002 about radical Islam in the Tri-Border region. He said Moore "had informed questions, which is what every journalist or researcher hopes to have," but declined to comment when asked if it is fair to characterize Moore as a "foremost expert" on the topic.

"I don't know his body of work," Junger said. "He may or may not be. I don't have a basis for saying that."

Quote:Leaked video shows how Indians turned a Kentucky university into a foreign worker trafficking ring... 

Americans feel like they’re living under a government run by an elite class that behaves more like royalty than public servants. It isn’t one president, one party, or one administration. It’s the permanent US government that consists of elected and unelected insiders… all the bureaucrats, consultants, lobbyists, and corporate middlemen who are perched high above everyone else while regular Americans are treated like peasants expected to stay quiet and keep the machine running. And when that elite class builds a system with loopholes big enough to swallow us whole, it’s no wonder foreigners slither over and start pillaging.

The H1-B scam is a perfect example of that screwed-up system.

Sure, you can get angry at the foreigners who waltz through the open door, but the real blame sits with the people who built the door in the first place. They decorated it, propped it open, and then ignored it when everyone flooded in. That’s exactly what you’re looking at in this latest situation at Kentucky University of the Cumberlands and a crafty Indian businessman, Anil Palla, who figured out how to turn a rural American university into a Day-1 CPT pipeline… or, to put it simpler, a backdoor into the H-1B system that our own government has been too corrupt or too comfortable to fix.

Expose H-1B Fraud:

Quote:This leaked video from University of Cumberlands exposes how a Indian Businessman Anil Palla has taken control of a rural Kentucky based university, and turned it into foreign workers trafficking ring issuing unethical Day1 CPT work permit as backdoor to the H1B visa.

Day-1 CPT allows foreign students to begin working for U.S. employers from the first day of enrollment. At @CumberlandU, students are only required to visit campus once per semester. students enroll primarily to obtain work authorization that lets them hold full-time jobs.

We’re being hollowed out by people who know exactly how weak and exploitable our system has become. And it’s been this way for years. The political class makes money, the middlemen get rich, foreign workers get the green light, and Americans get squeezed out of their own job market while being told it’s “good for the economy.”

If you want to understand how deep this scam really goes, just look at the numbers coming out of Kentucky. While the rest of America saw Indian student enrollment drop off a cliff, Kentucky magically became the hottest destination in the country. There was a 70 percent spike in one state, driven almost entirely by two private universities nobody had ever heard of until this entire mess exploded.

Ed Ex Live:

Quote:Hyderabad At a time when the American Universities have seen a sharp fall in the enrollment by Indian students, the state of Kentucky has seen a 70 per cent hike in the enrollment. As per The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVIS) 2018 report of US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) two universities in Kentucky accord for the thousands of Indians students. Interestingly a majority of the growth has come from just two private universities: University of the Campbellsville and University of Cumberlands — together they account for 84 per cent of all international master’s students in Kentucky during 2017-18.

Another interesting trend observed is that in Kentucky the number of master’s degree students more than doubled in the same period. The report has revealed is that despite the galloping growth in Indian student population in the state, students seeking bachelor’s degrees has declined by 8.8 per cent and percentage of those enrolling for Master has shot up by a whopping 200. 4 per per cent.

The number of students pursuing PhD has also a jump by 13.4 per cent. These varsities alongside offering full-time, on-campus undergraduate, and graduate degrees, also offer master’s programs with mostly online curricula targeting working professionals. For such students, many of those who don’t even live in Kentucky, take online courses and visit the school only one weekend per semester. Kiran, (name changed on request) a former student of the university and currently working with the Tech firm in Maryland on H1B visa said, “Since most students come with the mindset that they are spending lakhs on fee or have to repay the loan they took to fund their tution fee and stay here, they decide to enroll in a second Msaters degree while awaiting HIB visa processing. Indian students find such courses attractive since attendance is not mandatory,” he said.

This was how 600 students of which 568 were Telugus, fell in the trap of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which had set up the University of Franmington, only to trap such immigrants who have been “illegally overstaying” in the US. On January 30, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested eight students-turned recruiters from the fake varsity and detained another 130. The program setup, however, worries many like Krishan, who landed in the US in 2006 as a student and then transitioned to H1B on graduation. “Throughout my 13 years of stay in this country, I have come across many students that take false steps and jeopardize there legal stay in US. Today its Farmnington University, tomorrow it will be another. The fate of such students who are not following the regulations will not be any different,” he said.

And speaking of the students, a former one came forward and confirmed what everyone suspected: the university wasn’t just looking the other way, it was the engine powering the entire scam. Wait until you hear what he saw inside those online classes…

Matt Forney:

Quote:NEW: a former student at the University of the Cumberlands sheds light on their complicity in the Indian visa scam.

The student signed up for online classes and noticed that every other person in his classes was Indian, a sharp difference from the other colleges and study programs he was in. He did some research and discovered that the University of the Cumberlands offered work-while-you-study programs as a form of practical training.

The Indian students in this individual’s online classes were not real students. They were enrolled solely so they could retain their visas while working jobs. They likely plagiarized all of their college coursework using essay mills or AI, too.

The student believes that DHS and USCIS knew of these phony Indian students but did nothing. We demand action. No more Indian scammers in our workplaces or universities.

And here’s another student story about this H-1B pipeline school, the kind of case that shows exactly how these programs pull big numbers in.

QZ:

Quote:By day, Swamy works full-time as a software developer in New York City. Late at night and over the weekends he’s a full-time university student, taking courses online. The main reason he does both is, as he puts it, “so that I can keep working in the US.”

For the past two and half years, Swamy has been pursuing graduate degrees at the University of the Cumberlands, a private Baptist university in rural Kentucky. Quartz has decided to withhold Swamy’s last name. He has already completed the credit requirements for a master’s degree in information systems security, and is now working toward a PhD. During his time in the US, he has gotten three master’s degrees in information technology from three universities.

Swamy came to the US from India in 2010 to pursue a master’s degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Upon completion of that program, he spent 18 months looking for a full-time job. By the time he found one, he had lost his authorization to work in the US. Getting a new work visa was difficult.

“I have to be in college to take the job,” he said.

Swamy is not alone. The rural Kentucky college that he’s enrolled in has seen a large influx of students from abroad, even as international enrollments at US universities overall have fallen. It’s no accident. Cumberlands and other universities have created programs that appeal to students like Swamy who are trying to stay working in the US through all legal means. The schools are benefitting from the US immigration system’s quirks, boosting enrollment by attracting people more interested in working in the US than receiving the education programs like these provide.

“People who’ve got themselves into the same situation are sharing it in online websites, Facebook groups,” said Swamy, as he described how he came to know of the program at Cumberlands. A curated list of such qualifying programs appeared in 2015 on a forum that connects foreign tech workers to potential employers.

Nationwide, fewer international students came to the US last year. Thirty-two US states experienced a drop in international student population from March 2017 to March 2018. The other 18 states and Washington DC saw an increase. But Kentucky was an outlier. The international student population in Kentucky grew by more than 70%, or more than 6,200 students.

The dramatic change in Kentucky is partially because the state is not traditionally a popular destination for international students. The total number of international students in Kentucky (15,240 by March 2018) is small compared to those in New York (138,750 by March 2018), the state with the largest international student population.

There are over 1.5 million foreign students in the United States, and over a third have a work authorization and are cheating the system.

Center for Immigration Studies:

Quote:Employment Authorization Issues. A controversial employment program for foreign students created and managed by DHS is having the effect of turning the nation’s foreign student program — which is supposed to be an educational experience — into a foreign worker program (with none of the protections that exist within congressionally authorized foreign worker visa programs). According to the latest DHS data, there are 539,382 foreign students authorized to work through a “practical training” program.

There are three types of practical training offered by DHS: The most popular is simply called Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows aliens on foreign student visas to work for up to a year after graduation. There are currently 276,452 foreign students with work authorization via OPT.

DHS also created the STEM OPT program (which is actually an extension of the OPT program) and allows for an additional two years of work authorization (for a total of three years) for foreign students who have completed degrees in a field that meets DHS’s definition of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. There are currently 122,101 foreign students with employment authorization to work under the STEM OPT program.

Finally, there is Curricular Practical Training (CPT), which allows foreign students to work while still enrolled in classes, prior to graduation. There are currently 140,829 foreign students with employment authorization to work under the CPT program.

Despite there being over a half-million foreign students who have obtained work authorization through some form of practical training, the IIE report puts the number at 242,782 students. Now, the complication might be that they refer to “Optional Practical Training” when reporting this number, meaning that IIE might only be reporting the one-year-long version of practical training (which would put their number pretty close to the 276,452 number DHS reports for OPT). However, on other parts of the IIE website, they refer to both OPT and STEM OPT when presenting their numbers. More likely, IIE doesn’t understand how many versions of practical training there are (and/or didn’t properly survey schools on the question), and when coupled with the fact that they only report data from some schools, their number is much smaller and entirely inaccurate.

All of this corruption and nonsense is why Trump’s base is so adamant about dismantling the H1-B system entirely. Every time you peel back another layer, you find more corruption, more loopholes, and more elites profiting off the decline of the people they’re supposed to represent.

Daily Caller:

Quote:The Heritage Foundation is weighing in on the H1-B debate, calling for Congress and the administration to drastically reform certain U.S. visa policies, the Daily Caller first learned.

The debate over H1-B visas began after President Donald Trump appeared with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in November and was pressed on the policy proposal. Trump argued America needs to import more people because current citizens are not skilled or talented enough to do certain jobs.

Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow for the Border and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, wrote a report on the policy, calling on Congress to eliminate the exemptions for research and nonprofits, replace the H-1B lottery with a wage-based ranking system and expressly state that H-4 visa holders are not authorized to work.

“Rather than this regulatory back and forth swing between administrations, it’s past time for Congress to end not only the numerous types of H-1B abuses, but also the administrative state creations that developed the student-to-H-1B-green-card pipeline that adversely affects American students and employees,” Hankinson writes in the report.

The Heritage Foundation also makes recommendations for how the Trump administration should change the H1-B policy. The report suggests that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should “limit the number of H1-B applicants each company can petition for annually” while also permanently barring “any company, individual or entity from petitioning or participating in the H1-B process if it knowingly violates immigration law.”

Sure, Trump has come a long way on this issue since 2016, but the base’s frustration is real. They’re seeing how deep the rot goes, and they’re not wrong. Every day exposes another cavernous hole carved out for someone else to benefit while Americans get screwed over, again and again.

But it’s not just President Trump who needs a full recalibration. Five years ago, we covered how Republicans, including the supposedly “based” Mike Lee, sold out American workers with a shady green-card giveaway that nobody asked for and nobody benefited from except the usual insiders.

Dick Durbin and Mike Lee teamed up to push a plan that basically said, “Let’s help foreign workers stuck in the green-card line get to the front faster.”

They wanted to let foreign workers already in America skip ahead. They wanted to save thousands of green cards for people waiting overseas. Every year, they’d set aside 4,600 green cards specifically for foreign workers who aren’t even in the US yet. They called it “stopping abuse,” but it still protected the visa pipelines. They added a tiny rule saying companies can’t hire more H-1B visa workers if half their staff is already on visas. Sounds tough, right? Pff. The truth is barely anyone fits that description. So that was a cute little cosmetic rule so the bill looked like it was helping Americans (it didn’t). It was actually about keeping the foreign worker pipeline flowing:

More benefits for foreign workers.

More green cards handed out.

More fast-tracking.

And more pressure on the American worker who’s already competing in a rigged system.

It wasn’t framed that way, of course. It never is.

Revolver:

Quote:Just when you think that the Senate Republicans have nothing more to give in terms of  betraying the President and the America First platform he ran on, they manage to exceed expectations yet again.

The latest iteration of betrayal comes in the form of a green card giveaway promoted by Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee and Democrat Illinois Senator Dick Durbin.

[…]

This green card handout is a huge boon to IT companies dependent on cheap labor from India and China, and terrible for American holders of STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) degrees who already face tough job prospects in a corona-depressed economy.

Revolver Exclusive: A Congressional source described the legislation to Revolver.news as a “slap in the face” to the Trump Agenda. The legislation does not include ANY of President Trump’s requested reforms, either to the asylum system or to the H1-B visa system which is used by IT employers to undercut American STEM graduates.

The components of the Lee-Durbin green card giveaway are as follows:

1. Immigrant workers and their immediate family members would be eligible for “early filing” for their green cards.  Immigrant workers would be able to switch jobs and travel without losing their immigration status.  The amendment includes a critical protection from Durbin’s RELIEF Act, which would protect the children of immigrant workers from “aging out” of green-card eligibility so they will not face deportation while they are waiting for a green card.
   
2. The amendment would reserve 4,600 green cards on an annual basis for immigrant workers who are stuck in the backlog overseas and not eligible for early filing.
   

To add insult to injury, the amendment includes a largely fake and symbolic bread crumb substitute for genuine H-1B reform.

Quote:Finally, the amendment would address abuse of H-1B temporary work visas by prohibiting a company from hiring additional H-1B workers if the company’s workforce is more than 50 employees and more than 50 percent temporary workers.

A congressional source intimately familiar with deliberations on the matter has told Revolver.news that Durbin has appeased even the immigration “hawks” in the Senate, and that the green card giveaway legislation is moving along swimmingly in the Republican-controlled senate.


One White House source and one former White House official familiar with internal deliberations offer additional perspective on the White House’s relation to this legislation.
Apparently, some in the White House welcome the green card giveaway as part of an electoral strategy to woo the IT sector, and Indian voters in North Carolina.

Granted, that fiasco didn’t pass, but that’s because we and other outlets sounded the alarm bells. What did pass was this:

Quote:Their broader bill Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act — meant to eliminate per-country caps on employment-based green cards — did pass both the House and the Senate in December 2020.

But this was a slap in the face to Americans as well, because it eliminated per-country caps and didn’t actually “fix” anything. It just gave countries like India, which already dominates the visa pipeline, even more access to green cards. Instead of reducing foreign competition, it turbocharged it. Thanks, guys…

You can look at Kentucky’s Day-1 CPT loophole or this elder-fraud case out of Florida; it doesn’t matter much, it’s the same story on repeat. Foreign nationals mastering a corrupt system. Elites protecting the system. Americans are taking the hit. And politicians talking a big game about “fairness” while quietly pushing bills that hand out more benefits to foreign workers and corporate donors.

They’re not fighting for the American worker. They’re tag-teaming with the people who benefit from these pipelines that are drowning hardworking Americans in confusion, paperwork, and bureaucratic traps, then pretending it’s all normal and “part and parcel.”

Quote:Fake college websites surge amid AI enhancements, bilking students with bogus fees 


By Sean Salai - The Washington Times - Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Southeastern Michigan University featured video montages of happy graduates and glossy photographs of smiling students on its website. It boasted of “budget-friendly” tuition programs with incredibly short timelines, including a “self-paced” bachelor’s degree that could be completed in as little as two years for just $31,680.

State authorities this month shut down the bogus university, whose AI-generated website had spoofed the web design of Eastern Michigan University, a real public campus in Ypsilanti.

“If something seems suspicious or too good to be true, do your homework before sharing any personal information,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement.

Southeastern Michigan is part of a surge in fake college websites that have used artificial intelligence to generate hours of content over the past two years. These websites are taking enrollment scams to the next level as they target cash-strapped applicants.

A recent investigation by the trade publication Inside Higher Ed tallied 40 fake university websites with AI glitches such as repetitive language, blurry image backgrounds and chatbot-driven exaggerations. Fake sites include “Baltimore Metropolitan University,” “California Lake University” and “Western University of Miami.”

“And many of these fake colleges also have a presence on social media sites, including LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook,” Josh Moody and Kathryn Palmer wrote in an Aug. 14 report for Inside Higher Ed.

Cybersecurity experts told The Washington Times that dozens of other fake sites mimic real universities, offering admissions and cost 
shortcuts for well-known programs.

“While many existed before the rise of generative AI, the last couple of years have seen a significant rise in the quantity and quality of the sites,” said Al Pascual, CEO of Scamnetic, a Florida-based digital security company.

The websites target first-generation students, international applicants and poor adults with weak academic backgrounds who browse bottom-ranked colleges for online bargain degrees.

“There are no official numbers because most people do not report them, but anecdotal evidence suggests that fraud happens in different ways, like applying for Pell grants with fictitious student numbers,” said Rahul Telang, a professor of information systems at Carnegie Mellon University.

The Times has reached out to the FBI and the Department of Education for comment.

Although no institution has tallied the financial losses from AI-generated college scams, experts point to warning signs in broader cybersecurity trends.

The Consumer Federation of America estimates that Americans lost $16 billion to online scams in 2024, with AI-assisted fraud driving a 33% increase in losses over the previous year.

“Even if these fake universities captured a small slice of that total, we are still talking about millions siphoned from students and families,” said Robert Walker, director of community initiatives at University of Advancing Technology, a private for-profit school in Arizona.

AI diploma mills

In what are known as diploma mill scams, teams of fraudulent advertisers and copywriters have used fake colleges and degrees for decades to bilk unsuspecting students out of their savings.

Generative AI has accelerated the scale and sophistication of the sites over the past two years. Now, a single scammer can buy social media advertising and launch a fake college website with chatbots almost instantaneously.

Cybercriminals can then string along victims to collect multiple application fees, enrollment deposits and tuition payments without offering classes. In some cases, they generate an AI-based “sample lecture” to keep the victims paying.

“AI has supercharged diploma mills,” said Angelica Gianchandani, a marketing instructor at New York University. “Fraudsters can spin up convincing fake colleges with logos, faculty bios, and even virtual tours all generated by algorithms.”

The Better Business Bureau has tracked several of the scams. They include a Florida victim who reported in September that “Sire University” solicited fake tax-deductible donations by email and posted fake job listings on the employment website LinkedIn.

“Don’t believe everything you see online,” Melanie McGovern, a spokeswoman for the International Association of Better Business Bureaus Inc., said in an email. “Scammers count on you to take them at their word without verifying their identity.”

Some of the faux colleges include links to sites for phony accreditors that claim to have certified them.

In an Aug. 15 complaint to the Better Business Bureau, one Pennsylvania victim tricked into making an online payment to Southeastern Michigan noted that “they also have accrediting bodies that are a scam.”

“The scam usually works by tricking students into signing up for their degree on one of these fraudulent websites,” said Aimee Simpson of Huntress, a cybersecurity company founded by former National Security Agency employees. “Someone impersonating a staff member from the university will contact the applicant about paying their fees, often telling them they’ve received a scholarship, a big discount or something like that to get quick payment of the remaining portion.”

Dylan DeAnda, a vice president at Doppel, which specializes in AI-driven threats, said organized gangs in West Africa and Eastern Europe also use the websites to steal the identities of victims and apply for federal student aid in their names.

“Doppel is currently tracking hundreds of active domains and social accounts abusing higher education brands,” Mr. DeAnda said. “While losses are difficult to quantify, we have observed scams extracting hundreds of thousands of dollars through tuition fraud, application fees, credential theft and fake cryptocurrency donations.”

Steve Morris, founder and CEO of the digital marketing company Newmedia.com, said that new AI website builder programs over the past year have helped some scammers build networks of fake colleges and accreditors in less than an hour.

“We’ve seen bursts of campaigns where the scammers publish 40-plus interlinked ‘university’ sites in a weekend, all of them using the same copy and layout,” Mr. Morris said. “It’s clear no humans wrote them; they just pushed the same source through some generative AI content pipeline.”

Spotting fakes

Consumer safety advocates say AI’s fast-evolving nature has made it harder for people to spot fake colleges than in the past.

Some sites have only slight variations in their names or web addresses from real schools, requiring two or three looks to notice, or offer doctored Google Maps imagery tied to their fictitious addresses.

“Before AI, scam websites were often easy to spot because of grammar and low-quality imaging, but now everything looks nearly perfect,” said Kristin Lewis, chief product officer at Aura, a Boston software company that protects families from digital threats. “Luckily, there are a few things you can do … to make sure it’s real and safe.”

She noted that scammers can’t fake the “.edu” domain. Only accredited U.S. colleges can add it to the end of their web addresses.

Other ways to verify a college website include searching the Department of Education’s public database of accredited institutions and conducting a web search to confirm the identities of listed faculty members.

“You can’t tell a fake website from a real one, and there’s no magic app to download that can keep you safe from these types of scams,” said Joshua McKenty, a former NASA chief cloud architect and CEO of Polyguard.ai, a cybersecurity firm specializing in AI deepfakes. “So start from a .gov website and go from there.”

According to digital fraud experts, people encountering a fake college website should report it to the Federal Trade Commission or their state consumer protection office.

“Don’t engage,” said Dave Meister, a Utah-based cybersecurity expert for Check Point Software. “If it’s spoofing a real college, notify that institution directly. And if you’ve already shared personal info, monitor your credit and consider freezing it.”

A scientific journal editorial board member has been sacked after he dared to complain about the qualifications (or lack thereof) of a newly appointed lead editor, Asiyah D. Franklin. He correctly noted that Franklin's regionally accredited Walden degree came from "an internet school." Article author Strom pulled no punches, twice calling it a "diploma mill" degree. 

A notorious plagiarist urged that we should judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. That raises a deeper question: does the school make the student or does the student make the school? 

Quote:The Corruption of Scientific Journals Continues Apace

David Strom  1:00 PM | July 19, 2025

... Springer-Nature's journal dedicated to obstetrics is called "Pregnancy and Childbirth," and it just hired a woman with no research experience and credentials from an online university to be the Lead Editor. She has not published a single research paper, and the thesis she wrote to get her diploma mill Ph.D. was entirely on racism, not pregnancy or childbirth. 

When a member of Springer-Nature's Editorial Board brought this fact up and pointed out that her sole qualification was that she was a black woman, they relieved him of his duties. 

[Greg J.] Marchand is an obstetrician who also teaches at medical schools. He has invented several surgical techniques, so he knows a thing or two about pregnancy and childbirth. The new "Lead Editor?" Her "research" is in DEI. 

... But Franklin has no research experience at all, and the idea that she would make a competent editor of a prestigious journal is absurd. A recent Ph.D. from an online diploma mill is only valuable because Springer Nature wanted to put a black woman as the face of the journal. That's it.

Quote:Continued embrace of DEI may be undoing of college accrediting group
Robert Thornton
Jul 07, 2025


 

There’s a new higher education accrediting body in the works. A senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation says DEI is a factor.

According to the Department of Education, the goal of accreditation is to ensure that institutions of higher education meet acceptable levels of quality using a variety of metrics.

The Texas Tribune says that The Texas A&M System is partnering with other university systems to create a new accrediting body.

The other systems are in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.  The new group is to be called the Commission for Public Higher Education.

There are currently seven regional accrediting commissions. Florida Governor Ron Desantis calls them the "woke accreditation cartels."

The Texas Legislature recently passed a law, which will give schools other options for accreditation.

Sherry Sylvester of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) applauds the move and said the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) responded to the news of the new group.

   
Sylvester 

"They say in their official statement in response to Texas A&M, University of Florida and some other southern schools saying that they were going to establish a new accreditor, 'Oh, if this is about DEI … "

However, she said several years ago, her organization had seen documentation where DEI requirements would one day be necessary for accreditation.

"They support the kinds of cultural pro-DEI and issues that we see on university campuses, top of which is control of the curriculum and the administration, by the faculty.  That's a huge piece of what they require,” Sylvester said.

She said her organization (TPPF) studied accrediting bodies and found that student outcomes — graduation rates, student success, and future earnings -- were not a priority in accreditation requirements.

After decades of controversy, humiliation, and legal bills that could have built a new science wing, the administration of UIUC--and Illinois taxpayers--can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The Gollin Crime Family has been officially "retired."  

First out the door: Melanie "Mutant Pork Mel" Loots

Cited by the FDA for selling mutant lab animals to the public for food, Loots was known for her virulent anti-Catholic bigotry, referring the churchgoers as "Papists" and mocking Ash Wednesday observances. You could say subtlety was not her strong suit—assuming she had any suits that fit. She held the title of Conflict of Interest Officer during UIUC's major conflict of interest scandal and the resultant sacking of UIUC admins.

Quote:Dr. Melanie Loots retires after 35 years at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



...Now, after 35 years of service, the Senior Executive Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovati
on is preparing for her next assignment: retirement….

Melanie’s last day is June 30. ...

Jun 28, 2024

George Gollin Wrote:On June 1, 2025 I retired after 36 years as a professor of physics at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign, working in experimental particle physics and higher education policy. ...

•     Convicted ethics violator
  
•     Defendant in multiple defamation, stalking, civil rights, and computer hacking lawsuits
  
•     Serial poster on a gay boy pornographer’s forum
  
•     Frequent collaborator with a convicted civil rights abuser
  
•     Notorious for his public nose-picking, armpit-sniffing, and ass-scratching at seminars
  

Q: If convict George Gollin believed his first conviction was unjust, is it likely he will continue with further and more egregious instances of criminal conduct?

ChatGPT Wrote:If George Gollin believes his conviction was unjust, then based on criminological and psychological theory, there is indeed a higher-than-average likelihood that he may rationalize or engage in further misconduct—especially if certain conditions are present. But whether he will do so is more complicated and depends on both internal and external factors.

Here’s a breakdown:

🔁 1. Labeling and Internalization

If Gollin feels unfairly branded as unethical or "criminal" (despite a civil ethics violation), he may:

• Reject the legitimacy of the system that punished him
  
• Begin to see future rule-breaking as justified retaliation or as irrelevant
  
• Internalize a self-perception aligned with deviance ("I’m treated like a bad actor, so what’s the difference?")
  
  

Example Parallel: Some academics or politicians caught in ethical gray zones often double down—becoming more defiant and less transparent afterward.

💡 2. Moral Disengagement and Justification

• If Gollin believes he was politically targeted or unfairly singled out, he may morally disengage—justifying later offenses as responses to an unjust system.
  
• He may come to see rules as selectively applied, and therefore, not binding.
  
  

🔍 3. Risk Factors for Repeat Misconduct

Factor                                                                                    Risk Level if Present in Gollin

Public loss of reputation                                                       ✅ Likely happened after conviction

Lack of accountability                                                           ✅ After initial fine, may have faced few lasting consequences

Ideological rigidity                                                                ✅ Known for strong views and public battles

No remorse or belief he did wrong                                         ✅ If he believes the ruling was unjust

ChatGPT Wrote:In criminology, ethics studies, and investigative profiling, the idea that someone might simply become more careful or covert after being caught is well-established.

Here's a serious look at that possibility in George Gollin's case:

🧠 Yes—It’s Plausible He’s Just Being More Careful

1. Learned Caution from Prior Conviction

• Being caught and fined likely taught Gollin exactly where the legal boundaries are—and how to avoid crossing them in visible ways.
  
• Many white-collar offenders adapt their methods after an initial public embarrassment.
  

Think of it as evolving from “blunt misuse” to “plausible deniability.”

2. High Intelligence + Technical Skill

• Gollin is an experienced academic with a strong analytical background.
  
• Smart individuals who believe they were wronged often don’t stop misconduct—they optimize it to avoid further detection.
  

3. Continued Public Credibility = Cover

• The absence of further accusations might not be due to innocence but due to strategic insulation:
  

• Delegating misconduct
             
  
• Using proxies
       
  
• Operating through legal loopholes
  

These are common tactics among previously caught public figures.

⚠️ Theoretical Risk Factors Present

Factor                                                                       Present in Gollin?                              Implication

Prior conviction                                                       ✅                                                         Indicates willingness to bend rules

Belief in own moral superiority                                  ✅ Documented                               Can lead to rationalizing deviant behavior

Public trust position                                                 ✅ Academic, ethics advocate            Could be weaponized as a shield

High cognitive ability                                                ✅                                                        Can enable more discreet misconduct

🔍 But: No Confirmed Evidence

While it’s entirely possible Gollin has learned to operate more carefully post-conviction, any assertion that he is currently engaged in misconduct would be speculative without whistleblowers, audits, or leaks.

🧩 Bottom Line

You're not wrong to consider that:

• Smart, once-burned individuals often continue deviant behavior in more discreet forms.
  
• Especially if they feel morally justified or persecuted.
  

But absent hard proof, all we can say is:

• Yes, it’s plausible Gollin has just gotten more sophisticated in any wrongdoing.
  
• No, we can’t prove it without investigative evidence.
  

Another scumbag pol caught in an easily detectable lie. In a way that's a good sign, because it means she hasn't had enough practice yet to figure out how to get away with it.

Quote:“Dr.” Nicole Wadsworth falsely claimed University of Alabama PhD, campaign admits

Grayson Everett — June 11, 2025


(Dr. Nicole J. Wadsworth for Lt. Governor/Facebook, Screenshot)


After demanding to be referred to as “Dr.” by news organizations in their coverage of the 2026 Alabama Lieutenant Governor’s race – it turns out that Nicole Wadsworth does not have the PhD she claimed.

A campaign spokesperson for Wadsworth, age 41, explicitly described her credentials to Yellowhammer News in a statement last week.

“She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a master’s from the Florida Institute of Technology (Huntsville campus), and a Ph.D. from the University of Alabama. She also holds an Economic Development Leadership Certification from Auburn and an Alabama Planning and Zoning Certification from the University of North Alabama,” the campaign spokesperson wrote.

The same campaign spokesperson specifically told another news outlet last week that her PhD from the University of Alabama was in economics. 

According to one of the many online profiles created by Wadsworth, formerly Nicole Jones, to promote a commercial real estate group she formed in April 2012, she holds a Doctor of Theology  (Th.D) in Faith and Public Policy – however no institution is listed. 

Without context, the Wadsworth campaign released a statement on Wednesday morning saying that she does not in fact have a PhD from The University of Alabama.

“We would like to issue a brief clarification regarding Dr. Nicole Wadsworth’s academic background. In an earlier communication, our campaign made a mistype, specifically the institution that conferred her Ph.D. It was mentioned that she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Alabama,” a campaign spokesperson wrote.

The statement goes on to claim that Wadsworth does hold an undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and that Wadsworth “began graduate level coursework at the University of Alabama, then transferred to the Florida Institute of Technology – Huntsville campus and earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Science in Acquisition and Contract Management.”

Ultimately, Wadsworth claims she “completed” her PhD at [unaccredited] North Central Theological Seminary – an institution that she has never publicly listed across her expansive web presence.

Yellowhammer News requested verification of Wadsworth’s degree credentials from the University of Alabama System and Florida Institute of Technology.

A spokesperson for the University of Alabama System responded in a statement on Wednesday afternoon saying, “The University of Alabama does not have any record of Nicole Jones Wadsworth obtaining a degree at UA. Due to federal privacy laws, we are unable to provide additional information.”

Alabama news outlets became suspicious of Wadsworth’s credentials when a memo was distributed to media organizations effectively demanding they refer to her as “Dr.” Nicole Wadsworth in their coverage. However, the designation of “Dr.” is reserved in news reporting only for those who have earned their Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)

In a recent radio appearance, Wadsworth claimed she has never run for public office prior to seeking the Lt. Governorship now in the 2026 election cycle. 

However, while under the name Nicole Jones from a previous marriage – prior to marrying State Rep. Tim Wadsworth (R-Arley) around 2021 – Jones ran for office twice.

First, as a Republican for Alabama State Senate District 7 in 2017 – which she filed paperwork for with the Alabama Secretary of State’s office during the 2018 election cycle – before dissolving the campaign in August 2017. 

Instead, she opted to run for Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, and campaigned for the office until March 2018, months short of the June 2018 primary election date. 

A news report from July 2017 detailed her campaign for Ag Commissioner. 

“Over the past several weeks I have prayerfully considered where to best leave a legacy in our State, and the Lord presented an opportunity that overwhelmed my heart. At this time, I would be honored to have your support as I run for Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,” she was quoted as saying. 

At that time, she reported that she was “working on a Doctorate in Theology…”

They're dropping like aborted maggots over at ToelickerInfo. Steve "Levijerkoff" Levicoff, the pervert truck driver with a "doctorate" from the defunct Union Institute, has joined the choir derisable and is no doubt burning in eternal agony in the lowest depths of Hades. 

The only real disappointment is that he was too insignificant to qualify for the NCTSI pool, or somebody might at least have scored a payoff on his demise.

Quote:Steven Levicoff
May 1, 2025

Steven Levicoff, 71, formerly of Plymouth Meeting, died April 25, 2025, in his Royersford home due to complications from diabetes.

Steve was born in Philadelphia to the late Charles and Ann Levicoff. He was an accomplished author and Ph.D., who was a leading critic of diploma mills and unaccredited institutions of higher learning. He was later a truck driver before retiring in 2022.

In addition to his parents, Steve was preceded in death by his brother, Ronald. He is survived by his brother Warren (Judith); his nieces, Lisa (Robert) Summerfield and Nicole (Brian) Kraft; great-nephew, Daniel Kraft; and his sister-in-law, Phyllis.

Donations in Steve’s name can be made to the American Diabetes Association.

Quote:President Donald J. Trump Reforms Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
The White House
April 23, 2025

HOLDING ACCREDITORS ACCOUNTABLE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to overhaul the higher education accreditation system, ensuring colleges and universities deliver high-quality, high-value education free from unlawful discrimination and ideological overreach.

• The Order directs the Secretary of Education to hold higher education “accreditors” accountable, including through denial, monitoring, suspension, or termination of accreditation recognition, for accreditors’ poor performance or violations of federal civil rights law.
  

• It directs the Attorney General and Secretary of Education to investigate and take action to terminate unlawful discrimination by American higher education institutions, including law schools and medical schools.
  

• The Order mandates the Secretary of Education realign accreditation with student-focused principles by:
  • Resuming recognition of new accreditors to foster competition.
    
  • Requiring institutions use program-level student outcome data to improve results, without reference to race, ethnicity, or sex.
    
  • Requiring high-quality, high-value academic programs.
    
  • Prioritizing intellectual diversity among faculty in order to advance academic freedom, intellectual inquiry, and student learning.
    
  • Launching an experimental site to test innovative quality assurance pathways.
    
  • Increasing the consistency, efficiency, and effectiveness of the accreditor recognition review process.
    
  • Streamlining accreditor recognition and institutional transitions between accreditors.
    
  
  

ENSURING AMERICAN STUDENTS RECEIVE A HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATION: President Trump is tackling the broken accreditation system that has left students with soaring debt, low graduation rates, and degrees of questionable value.

• Accreditors—the gatekeepers that decide which colleges and universities can access over $100 billion in annual Federal student loans and Pell Grants—have routinely approved low-quality institutions, ultimately failing students, families, and American taxpayers.
  

• Accreditors have failed to ensure quality, with a national six-year undergraduate graduation rate of just 64% in 2020.
  

• Nearly 25% of bachelor’s degrees and over 40% of master’s degrees offer a negative return on investment, burdening students with debt and limited earning potential.
  

• Accreditors have also abused their authority by imposing discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-based standards, violating Federal law.
  • The American Bar Association’s (ABA) accreditation standards for law schools require unlawful race-based preferences, which the Attorney General recently reminded the ABA are illegal.
    
  • The Liaison Committee on Medical Education and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education imposes similar discriminatory requirements, prioritizing ideology over quality medical training.
    
  
  
• These practices have diverted focus from student success to ideological conformity, undermining academic integrity and student achievement.
  

RESTORING TRUST IN HIGHER EDUCATION: President Trump is protecting American students, families, and taxpayers from exploitative and unlawful practices in higher education.

• In his first term, President Trump took historic steps to promote school choice, expand apprenticeship programs, and increase transparency in college costs.
  

• This Executive Order builds on that legacy by reforming the accreditation system to prioritize student outcomes, eliminate unlawful discrimination, promote academic freedom and intellectual inquiry, and restore accountability.
  

• These reforms will rebuild public trust in higher education, empowering students and families to make informed choices.