The Congresswoman Going After Elite Universities on Antisemitism | |
Representative Virginia Foxx is a blunt partisan. But her life in rural North Carolina informs her attacks against these schools, starting with whether Harvard is truly ?elite.? | |
With States Banning DEI, Some Universities Find a Workaround | |
Welcome to the new ?Office of Access and Engagement.? Schools are renaming departments and job titles to try to preserve diversity programs. | |
USC Cancels Valedictorian?s Speech After Claims of Antisemitism | |
The university cited security concerns at the graduation. But the student, who is Muslim, said the school was ?succumbing to a campaign of hate meant to silence my voice.? | |
At UC Berkeley, a Pro-Palestinian Protest Disrupts Dinner at a Dean?s Home | |
Pro-Palestinian supporters disrupted a dinner for law students. There was a tussle over the microphone and conflicting claims of harm. | |
Harvard and Caltech Will Require Test Scores for Admission | |
The universities are the latest highly selective schools to end their policies that made submitting SAT or ACT scores optional. | |
Stanford?s New President Is Jonathan Levin, Dean of Business School | |
Dr. Levin faces the challenge of guiding the university through politically fraught times. | |
Science Teachers Are Having a Moment Thanks to the Solar Eclipse | |
Rick Crosslin, a science teacher in Indianapolis, paired up with school maintenance employees to build a giant model of the eclipse. | |
U.C. Berkeley Parents Hired Private Security to Patrol Near Campus | |
The parents were worried about crime, but the university said that the move raised concerns about training and experience, and that security was better left to its own police force. | |
Birmingham-Southern College to Close After Failing to Secure State Loan | |
After decades of financial mismanagement, the nearly 170-year-old private liberal arts school is set to close at the end of May. | |
The Man Who Helped Redefine Campus Antisemitism | |
In government and as an outsider, Kenneth Marcus has tried to douse what he says is rising bias against Jews. Some see a crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech. | |
Birmingham-Southern College to Close After Failing to Secure State Loan | |
After decades of financial mismanagement, the nearly 170-year-old private liberal arts school is set to close at the end of May. | |
The SAT Is Now Fully Digital for the Remote-Learning Generation | |
The new format cuts nearly an hour out of the exam and has shorter reading passages. | |
U. of Texas at Austin Will Return to Standardized Test Requirement | |
The university said SAT and ACT scores help it place students in programs that fit them best. | |
Dartmouth Players Detail How Union Plan Came Together | |
On Tuesday, the historic 13-2 vote by the men?s basketball team to unionize took a significant step toward classifying student-athletes as employees. | |
Liberty University Fined $14 Million for Mishandling Sex Assaults and Other Crimes | |
The penalty is the largest ever imposed by the Education Department, which found that the school had punished sexual assault victims but not their assailants and created a ?culture of silence.? | |
Harvard?s Response to Subpoenas Is Called ?Useless? by House Committee | |
Harvard said it has been acting in good faith and submitted thousands of pages of new material. | |
Brown University Will Reinstate Standardized Tests for Admission | |
The school joins Yale, Dartmouth and M.I.T. in backtracking on ?test optional? policies adopted during the pandemic. | |
University of Idaho Needs More Students. Should It Buy an Online School? | |
Ahead of an expected drop in enrollment, the institution is looking to buy the University of Phoenix, a for-profit school with a checkered past. Is it worth $550 million? | |
After Nex Benedict?s Death, Oklahoma Schools Chief Defends Strict Gender Policies | |
The Oklahoma school superintendent, Ryan Walters, said ?radical leftists? had created a narrative about the death of 16-year-old Nex Benedict that ?hasn?t been true.? | |
Co-Chair of Harvard Antisemitism Task Force Resigns | |
Professor Raffaella Sadun?s departure from the task force is a setback for a group set up to propose ways for Harvard to address antisemitism on campus. | |
Jewish Students Describe Facing Antisemitism on Campus to Members of Congress | |
At a discussion led by a House panel, students criticized their universities for not cracking down on antisemitism. An antiwar group pointed out that Muslim and Arab students are facing harassment, too. | |
California?s Push for Ethnic Studies Runs Into the Israel-Hamas War | |
The state?s high school students will be required to take the subject, but some object to how the discipline addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. | |
UPenn Trustees Meeting Cut Short by Student Protest Over Israel-Hamas War | |
The meeting was abruptly adjourned about 10 minutes in after a demonstration by pro-Palestinian students protesting the university?s ties with Israel. | |
At Harvard, Some Wonder What It Will Take to Stop the Spiral | |
At a summit of university presidents, the talk was about Harvard and its plummeting reputation. | |
Coleman Hughes, the Young Black Conservative Who Grew Up With, and Rejects, D.E.I. | |
Coleman Hughes wants a colorblind society. In his new book, he recounts how schools emphasized his racial identity ? and other students? white privilege. | |
Bill Ackman and Mark Zuckerberg Fail to Land Candidates on Harvard?s Board of Overseers | |
The candidates had promised to challenge the university?s leadership, but failed to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot for the board. | |
California Aims $2 Billion to Help Students Catch Up From the Pandemic | |
A lawsuit accused the state of failing to provide an equal education to lower-income, Black and Hispanic students during the pandemic. | |
Utah Bans D.E.I. Programs, Joining Other States | |
Conservatives say diversity and equity programs are more divisive than unifying. | |
Virginia Moves to End Legacy Admissions at Its Public Universities | |
The state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that ends preferences for children of alumni. The governor appears poised to sign it. | |
At Penn, Tensions May Only Be Growing After Magill?s Resignation | |
Professors at the University of Pennsylvania have begun to organize, fearing what they view as a plan by the billionaire Marc Rowan to upend academic freedom. | |
Hate Crimes Reported in Schools Nearly Doubled Between 2018 and 2022 | |
Black students were the most frequent reported victims, followed by L.G.B.T.Q. and Jewish students, according to F.B.I. statistics. | |
Florida Eliminates Sociology as a Core Course at Its Universities | |
In December, Florida?s education commissioner wrote that ?sociology has been hijacked by left-wing activists.? | |
Yale, Duke and Columbia Among Elite Schools to Settle in Price-Fixing Case | |
Five universities have agreed to pay $104.5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of violating an agreement to be ?need-blind? when admitting students. | |
Critics Protest Harvard?s Choice to Lead Antisemitism Task Force | |
Bill Ackman and Lawrence Summers decried the choice of Derek J. Penslar, a professor of Jewish history, who had signed a letter describing Israel as an apartheid regime. | |
After Affirmative Action Ban, Students Use Essays to Highlight Race | |
The Supreme Court?s ruling intended to remove the consideration of race during the admissions process. So students used their essays to highlight their racial background. | |
Harvard Defends Its Plagiarism Investigation of Its Former President | |
The university released its most detailed account of its handling of plagiarism accusations against Claudine Gay, who resigned earlier this month. | |
The Next Battle in Higher Ed May Strike at Its Soul: Scholarship | |
Cases involving Stanford, Harvard and M.I.T. are fueling skepticism over the thoroughness of research ? even from the academic world?s biggest stars. | |
How to Reboot Free Speech on Campus | |
How do we find our way to a campus culture in which everyone can be heard? | |
More Than 200 Protesters Arrested at 4 U.S. Campuses | |
The police made arrests at Washington University in St. Louis, Northeastern, Arizona State and Indiana, as more schools move in on encampments. | |
What Students Read Before They Protest | |
How Israel became the focus of so much of contemporary protest politics. | |
?Decisions Under Fire?: Campuses Try a Mix of Tactics as Protests Grow | |
Some colleges that initiated police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests have since taken a different tack. Others have defended the move. Hundreds have been arrested. | |
Children?s Museum Programming Is on the Rise | |
Many museums around the country have had children?s programs for years ? but they are on the rise now more than ever. | |
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