University of Delaware

By peter@thefire.org (Peter Bonilla) In addition to media interest in Temple and Michigan State Universities for their continuing failure to respect their students' First Amendment rights, FIRE this week is in the pages of the Los Angeles Times which, as I wrote yesterday, looks at Los Angeles City College's crusade to c...

The University of Delaware football team placed 12 players on the Colonial Athletic Association All-Academic team.

For the fourth year in a row, the University of Delaware is participating in RecycleMania, a friendly competition among colleges and universities across the United States to collect and recycle the most recyclable materials.

By erica@thefire.org (Erica Goldberg) Indoctrination, which aims to mandate students' views rather than stimulate students to think through those views for themselves, is anathema to a liberal education. Yet, a recently published article by Jan Blits, one of the professors who alerted FIRE to the University of Delaware's...

University of Delaware Police are seeking a suspect in the Jan. 9 theft of a laptop computer from the third floor of the Morris Library. The incident happened at about 1:30 p.m.

By adam@thefire.org (Adam Kissel) FIRE's highly publicized case at the University of Delaware, where Residence Life officials implemented a harrowing ideological re-education program for all 7,000 students in the residence halls, has gotten even more publicity lately in an excellent essay (PDF) by University of De...

Two University of Delaware master of public administration (MPA) students will travel to Beijing for the spring semester to participate in an exchange program with Beijing Normal University (BNU).

Felicia Zhang and Taylor Toth of the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club have been named to the U.S. national team that will compete at the International Skating Union World Junior Championships to be held March 8-14 at The Hague, Netherlands.

The University of Delaware women's indoor track and field team won the 1,600-meter relay at the Great Dane Invitational at the New York City Armory on Friday night.

Madeline Lambrecht, professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Delaware, has been selected to receive the 2010 End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).

Craig Young has been named the Colonial Athletic Association Men's Swimmer of the Week after helping lead the University of Delaware swimming team to a victory over Towson during a conference meet at the Rawstrom Natatorium on Saturday.

By greg@thefire.org (Greg Lukianoff) This video, created by FIRE friend Andrew Marcus, highlights some of the best victories (and worst cases) from FIRE's ten-year history. The reason it ranks first in my list is that it manages to cover famous cases ranging from the University of Delaware case to the IUPUI case in which a stud...

The University of Delaware has been ranked among the top 25 nationally in the Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine list of the 100 best values among high quality public institutions of higher education.

NEWARK -- The University of Delaware women's basketball team had visiting Buffalo just where it ... Delaware Drops BuffaloWBOC TV 16 Delle Donne ties mark, leads Hens past BuffaloExaminer.com all 22 news articles »

Season-ending victories over Liberty and Pittsburgh helped vault the University of Delaware volleyball team into the top 50 in the final Ratings Percentage Index released by the NCAA.

The Web site also outlines the University of Delaware's most crucial areas of support, including the seven colleges, the UD Athletics Fund, the Parent's ...

By adam@thefire.org (Adam Kissel) Diane Macedo at FoxNews.com, quoting FIRE, in an article that was for several days the #4 most e-mailed item at FoxNews.com Steve Jordahl for Focus on the Family's Family News in Focus (the audio is about twice as long as the news piece, including a FIRE interview) Katherine Kersten's two pi...

By luke@thefire.org (Luke Sheahan) Nathaniel Cornelius wrote the winning essay, "Educational Institutions or Reeducation Camps?" He explains how the actions of Valdosta State University and the University of Delaware were antithetical to the purpose of a university by prescribing ideological educational outcome...

The revenue won't be recovered in full because the site was purchased by the University of Delaware, which is tax-exempt. "The city's challenge is that much ... and more »

By robert@thefire.org (Robert Shibley) The debacle at the U of M illustrates the gulf that separates higher-education officials and ordinary citizens on the subject of freedom of speech and thought. University leaders seem clueless about these rights' crucial importance, while average folks grasp intuitively that though...

Fox is a 23-year-old first-year master of public administration student from New York, who as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware was a founding ...

Dimitrios Skordos, a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of Delaware, recently won the Jean Berko-Gleason Award for a paper addressing language development in young children. The award is given annually at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)...

Now, researchers from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the University of Delaware are using them to unlock the river's past 150 years ... and more »

The Princeton Review is seeking input from current University of Delaware undergraduates about daily academic and social life on the campus.

Jefferson responded with a letter of his own, which was recently discovered by a pair of University of Delaware graduate students who were processing ... Jefferson letter found among documentsUPI.com all 3 news articles »

By claire@thefire.org (Claire Jenkins) The program required that students participate in training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their RAs in which they were asked intrusive questions such as, "When did you discover your sexual identity?" One student who responded "None of your damn business" was...

A University of Delaware research team is now at the South Pole helping to build IceCube, the world's largest neutrino telescope over a mile deep in the Antarctic ice, and Delaware K-12 students can join them without even putting on a parka.

By luke@thefire.org (Luke Sheahan) FIRE invites college-bound high school seniors to write an essay explaining why freedom of expression is important to higher education. Applicants will first watch two short FIRE documentaries: FIRE in Action: Valdosta State University and Think What We Think...Or Else: Thought Con...

By adam@thefire.org (Adam Kissel) So long as students know that they can opt out, most of the problems with this program—from a rights perspective—have been solved. It is now up to the faculty to determine if they want a program with such a strongly held ideology to be the official University of Delaware statement on what stu...

By adam@thefire.org (Adam Kissel) According to the faculty member, both mistakes will be remedied at the Faculty Senate's meeting in October. FIRE will be paying attention to ensure that the rights of University of Delaware students in the residence halls are protected.  

By none (Mark Bauerlein) The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has a video here recounting the now notorious residence life program at University of Delaware. About two and a half minutes into the story, a young man recounts one of the activities students in the program underwent.

By peter@thefire.org (Peter Bonilla) This weekend Adam Kissel, Director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Defense Program, will be honored in Washington, D.C. at the Education Writers Association’s National Seminar. As we proudly announced earlier this spring, Adam won a First Prize award in the Magazines category of the EWA’s 2...

By Tresolini(noreply@blogger.com) Spring University of Delaware football scrimmages, such as Saturday's in damp, chilly Delaware Stadium, leave many yearning for the closer-to-the-real-thing versions of August preseason camp, when the weather is hot and so is the competition for playing time with games approachin...

 DE 4:05 pm, March 12, 2009----The fourth annual BusinessWeek review of the "Best Undergraduate B-Schools" ranked the University of Delaware's Lerner College of Business and Economics 26th among the nation's top 59 public university programs and 58th among ...

By adam@thefire.org (Adam Kissel) About 51 percent of the 6,769 residence hall students responded to survey questions sent out in December 2008, Robinson said. If you are one of the 100 students or 83 students who believe that the University of Delaware is still violating students' rights, please let us know.

 DE - Further evidence of the value of a UD education is found in two recent publications. Today The Princeton Review named the University of Delaware one of the ... Faith in today's world WDEL 1150AM all 2 news articles

The University of Delaware is one of the nation's 50 "best value" public colleges and universities according to The Princeton Review, one of America's most widely known education services companies.

By Sara Lipka Among the other institutions sending marching bands or other groups to the inaugural parade are Delaware State University, Florida A&M University, Grambling State University, Hampton University, Howard University, Ohio State University, United Tribes Technical College, t...

PHILADELPHIA, December 30, 2008—While restrictions on freedom of speech and other First Amendment rights once again abounded on America's campuses in 2008, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) enlisted more students and faculty members than ever in its fight ag...

By brandon@thefire.org (Brandon Stewart) Chiego then transitions into a discussion of the residential life reeducation program at the University of Delaware (UD), which FIRE helped to expose and end last year. "As unusual as our University's Department of Housing may seem," he cautions, "we still have nothing on the Universit...

By none (Bob Unruh) Leaders for The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education say they are continuing to monitor the University of Delaware, which last year was imposing mandatory "all whites are racist" indoctrination on students in residential halls, because there have been multiple attempts to...

By adam@thefire.org (Adam Kissel) FIRE representatives continue to be asked to speak about the University of Delaware case. I spoke about it at conferences in St. Louis and Los Angeles, and the NAS will be hosting a panel on these topics in January 2009. UD became a case study for students in Chicago. Journalists continue to wri...

By none (Anthony Paletta) The Foundation For Individual Rights in Education is set to release (mid-day Friday) a compendious report by Adam Kissel on the Delaware Residential Life Program. If you haven't followed this rank system of indoctrination (now happily suspended) the FIRE report is a comprehensive and...

By Tresolini(noreply@blogger.com) Discussing the University of Delaware quarterback situation this morning on our web show, "Keeler Blue Hen Live," football coach K.C. Keeler said that "Everything is under evaluation," including the QB spot after Saturday's 17-7 loss at Massachusetts in the Blue Hens' Colonial Athlet...

By none (Joe Backer) A group of University of Delaware students have been cleared to distribute a locally produced, conservative newspaper, The Lamplighter, on the Newark campus. The University already has a sanctioned student newspaper, The Review, which has been on campus for more than 50 years.

PHILADELPHIA, September 16, 2008—After unconstitutionally denying students the right to pass out a student newspaper without prior approval, the University of Delaware (UD) has changed course and restored the rights of free expression and freedom of the press on its campus. The poli...

The University of Delaware is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review.

By Mike Millikin Combined with the demonstrated efficiency performance of the very high efficiency solar cells’ spectral splitting optics, which is more than 93%, these recent results put the pieces in place for a solar cell module with a net efficiency 30% greater than any previous module efficiency...

By Steve Bainbridge As if it wasn’t already influential enough, the Delaware state legislature recently amended its constitution to allow the SEC to ask the Delaware Supreme Court to answer questions of Delaware law. Here is a page-one story from Saturday’s Wilmington’s News Journal on the news (HT: Pileg...

By Mike Millikin The University of Delaware hydrogen fuel cell hybrid bus. Initially, the bus will operate on the University campus. Subsequently, UD will collaborate with Delaware Transit Corp. to perform demonstrations to the general public outside of the University.