![]() | Maurie McInnis, Yale?s New President, Emphasized Policing at Previous Post |
In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom. | |
![]() | Oklahoma?s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible |
The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said the Bible was a ?necessary historical document.? The mandate comes as part of a conservative movement to infuse Christian values in public schools. | |
![]() | Northwestern Law School Accused of Bias Against White Men in Hiring |
The lawsuit was filed a year after the Supreme Court struck down the use of racial and gender preferences in college admissions. | |
![]() | Bloomberg?s $1 Billion Gift of Free Medical School Tuition Only Applies to Some |
A donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies will provide free tuition for Johns Hopkins medical students, if their families make less than $300,000 a year. | |
![]() | Harvard?s Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Forces Find Climate of Bias |
Groups investigating antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias cited instances of discrimination against pro-Israel students and ?a pervasive climate of intolerance? against pro-Palestinian students. | |
![]() | Why U.S. Schools Are Facing Their Biggest Budget Crunch in Years |
Federal pandemic aid helped keep school districts afloat, but that money is coming to an end. | |
![]() | Schools Got a Record $190 Billion in Pandemic Aid. Did It Work? |
Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly. | |
![]() | A School With 7 Students: Inside the ?Microschools? Movement |
Parents, desperate for help, are turning to private schools with a half-dozen or so students. And they are getting a financial boost from taxpayers. | |
![]() | Newsom Calls for Ban on Smartphone Use in California Schools |
Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a statewide ban as states and large school districts have pursued similar prohibitions to prevent disruption and cyberbullying. | |
![]() | Penn Bans Encampments After Wave of Campus Protests Over War in Gaza |
The new rules, which would also significantly rein in demonstrations at the university in other ways, come on the heels of a nationwide wave of student activism against Israel?s actions in Gaza. | |
![]() | Is This the End for Mandatory D.E.I. Statements? |
Harvard and M.I.T. no longer require applicants for teaching jobs to explain how they would serve underrepresented groups. Other schools may follow. | |
![]() | U.C. Berkeley?s Leader, a Free Speech Champion, Has Advice for Today?s Students: Tone It Down |
?Just because you have the right to say something doesn?t mean it?s right to say,? said Carol Christ, who is retiring as chancellor at the end of this month. | |
![]() | Student Protesters Want Charges Dropped as Universities Grapple With Discipline |
At pro-Palestinian demonstrations, students have broken codes of conduct and, sometimes, the law. But the question of whether and how to discipline them is vexing universities. | |
![]() | Yale Chooses Maurie McInnis as New President |
Maurie D. McInnis, a cultural historian, will be the first woman to serve as the school?s permanent president. | |
![]() | Harvard Says It Will No Longer Take Positions on Matters Outside of the University |
The policy could ease pressure on the school to issue statements on current events. Officials were criticized for their handling of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. | |
![]() | Trump Elevates a Conservative ?Warrior? on Education |
Byron Donalds is best known as a Trump defender and potential vice-presidential pick. But in Florida, the congressman and his wife made a name ? and a business ? in the charter school movement. | |
![]() | In Antisemitism Hearing, Republicans Demand Discipline for Student Protesters |
Leaders of Northwestern, U.C.L.A. and Rutgers, drawing lessons from prior hearings, sought to avoid enraging either the Republicans on the committee or members of their own institutions. | |
![]() | Anyone Want to Be a College President? There Are (Many) Openings |
The job is not what it used to be. There are openings at U.C.L.A., Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Penn ? and many, many others. | |
![]() | U.C.L.A. Police Make First Arrest in Attack on Protest Encampment |
Edan On, an 18-year-old, was charged with assault. The police said he beat pro-Palestinian protesters with a wooden pole. | |
![]() | Protesters at University of Chicago Take Over Institute of Politics Building |
Heidi Heitkamp was in her office at the University of Chicago?s Institute of Politics when protesters occupied the building. | |
![]() | Dartmouth?s President, Sian Leah Beilock, Called in Police Quickly. The Fallout Was Just as Swift. |
Local law enforcement went in just a couple of hours after a protest encampment went up. | |
![]() | How Columbia University Lost Support From the Russell Berrie Foundation |
Columbia University has faced enormous public pressure over protests. But emails and interviews also show some of the private demands on the Ivy League school. | |
![]() | U.S.C. Tries to Manage ?Train Wreck? of a Graduation |
A Netflix star will not speak at a ceremony. Security is high. And some professors are pushing for the valedictorian, whose speech was canceled, to give an address. | |
![]() | Why Al Jazeera is the Go To News Source for Student Protesters |
Students active in campus protests value Al Jazeera?s on-the-ground coverage and its perspective on the Israel-Hamas war. They draw distinctions between it and major American outlets. | |
![]() | Two Universities Cancel Speeches by U.N. Ambassador |
Invitations to Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield were withdrawn by Xavier University and the University of Vermont because of student objections to American support for Israel. | |
![]() | It?s Not Just Gaza: Student Protesters See Links to a Global Struggle |
In many students? eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and the impact of climate change. | |
![]() | What the First Amendment Means for Campus Protests |
Encampments? Occupying buildings? Demonstrators cite their right to free expression, but the issues are thorny. | |
![]() | 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. | |
![]() | U.S.C. Cancels Valedictorian?s Speech After Pro-Israel Groups Object |
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. | |
![]() | N.C.A.A. Settlement Agreement Reveals How Colleges Would Pay Athletes |
The agreement, if approved by a federal judge, could deliver the final hammer blow to the amateur model of college athletics. | |
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