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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.” Welcome to the new “Office of Access and Engagement.” Schools are renaming departments and job titles to try to preserve diversity programs. 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.” Pro-Palestinian supporters disrupted a dinner for law students. There was a tussle over the microphone and conflicting claims of harm. The universities are the latest highly selective schools to end their policies that made submitting SAT or ACT scores optional. Dr. Levin faces the challenge of guiding the university through politically fraught times. Rick Crosslin, a science teacher in Indianapolis, paired up with school maintenance employees to build a giant model of the eclipse. 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. After decades of financial mismanagement, the nearly 170-year-old private liberal arts school is set to close at the end of May. 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. After decades of financial mismanagement, the nearly 170-year-old private liberal arts school is set to close at the end of May. The new format cuts nearly an hour out of the exam and has shorter reading passages. The university said SAT and ACT scores help it place students in programs that fit them best. 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. 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 said it has been acting in good faith and submitted thousands of pages of new material. The school joins Yale, Dartmouth and M.I.T. in backtracking on “test optional” policies adopted during the pandemic. 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? 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.” 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. 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. 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. The meeting was abruptly adjourned about 10 minutes in after a demonstration by pro-Palestinian students protesting the university’s ties with Israel. At a summit of university presidents, the talk was about Harvard and its plummeting reputation. Coleman Hughes wants a colorblind society. In his new book, he recounts how schools emphasized his racial identity — and other students’ white privilege. The candidates had promised to challenge the university’s leadership, but failed to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot for the board. A lawsuit accused the state of failing to provide an equal education to lower-income, Black and Hispanic students during the pandemic. Conservatives say diversity and equity programs are more divisive than unifying. The state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that ends preferences for children of alumni. The governor appears poised to sign it. 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. Black students were the most frequent reported victims, followed by L.G.B.T.Q. and Jewish students, according to F.B.I. statistics. In December, Florida’s education commissioner wrote that “sociology has been hijacked by left-wing activists.” 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. 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. 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. The university released its most detailed account of its handling of plagiarism accusations against Claudine Gay, who resigned earlier this month. Cases involving Stanford, Harvard and M.I.T. are fueling skepticism over the thoroughness of research — even from the academic world’s biggest stars. There have been student protests and arrests, as well as controversy over the school’s decision to cancel the speech of its valedictorian. More than 400 demonstrators across the country have been taken into police custody since arrests at Columbia University in New York set off a wave of student activism nationwide. The Cumberland Valley School Board reversed its decision to cancel Maulik Pancholy’s speech at a middle school next month. “I cannot wait to meet all of you in person,” he said. There were more than 120 new arrests as universities moved to prevent pro-Palestinian encampments from taking hold as they have at Columbia University. |
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