Author: Tate Miller | The Center Square contributor

(The Center Square) – New Jersey may soon follow California’s lead in a reinterpretation of its ABC test that would force as many as 1.7 million independent contractors to lose their self-employed status while increasing the amount of workers that can be “unionized.” Director of Independent Women’s Center for Economic Opportunity Patrice Onwuka told The…

(The Center Square) – Shenandoah University is to hold a post-Valentine’s Day “Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Table” intended to spread information on those who identify as having little to no romantic feelings as a part of the school’s diversity center’s Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week. On Feb. 25, students are invited to come to the table “to…

(The Center Square) – After a lawsuit, the University of Washington renamed its racially-segregated “BIPOC Physicians Directory” to “MD Connections Directory” and opened the resource to all races. “The University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) has removed race-based restrictions from a physician networking directory after Do No Harm sued the program for racial discrimination,”…

(The Center Square) – While some schools across the nation hosted meagerly-attended “Transgivings” around Thanksgiving time, students at Hillsdale College wrote over 4,000 thank-you cards on the school’s annual “Day of Thanks.” Throughout the day on Nov. 21, participating Hillsdale students wrote the thousands of grateful notes to “donors, family members, professors, friends, and others…

(The Center Square) – The University of Utah is currently offering a course entitled “Feminist Cannabis Studies” through its Gender Studies program. The “upper division course explores feminist cannabis studies as a field and subject of study” that asks people to evaluate their “understandings and assumptions around cannabis,” according to the course description. The course…

(The Center Square) –Washington State University says it will not take sides in political or social issues in accordance with its new “Institutional Neutrality” policy. “The university will maintain a practice of neutrality and will not take a position on contentious political or social issues, except in rare circumstances,” WSU’s Office of the President announced…

(The Center Square) – The University of California Berkeley is expanding its antisemitism education in the 2024-25 school year as well as banning encampments and prohibiting masking to conceal one’s identity. Former Chancellor Carol Christ announced “new campus programs to provide antisemitism education to larger numbers of students, staff, and faculty,” in a letter to…