Harvard University struck a respectful but firm tone in a letter to the Trump administration on Monday, arguing that the university and the administration shared […]
Tag: Colleges and Universities
A Professor’s Final Gift to Her Students: Her Life Savings
In August 2021, a mysterious package from Sarasota, Fla., showed up in Nicole Archer’s mailbox in Manhattan. Dr. Archer hurried upstairs to her cramped Chelsea […]
Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning?
What happened to learning as a national priority? For decades, both Republicans and Democrats strove to be seen as champions of student achievement. Politicians believed […]
Opinion | Did One of My Students Hate Me Enough to Lie to Get Me in Trouble?
In the three years since Ron DeSantis set out to rid Florida’s universities of woke ideology, my campus changed significantly. Professors suddenly worried about what […]
Tufts Student Arrested by ICE Is Released From Detention
Ms. Ozturk testified that she had been confined with 23 other women in a space intended for 14 people. Stress and the smells of cleaning […]
Harvard Leaders See Only Bad Outcomes Ahead as They Battle Trump
Harvard University became the leader of academia’s resistance to the Trump administration — and soaked in acclaim from the White House’s critics — when it […]
Trump Administration Demands Records From Penn on Foreign Ties
The Trump administration on Thursday accused the University of Pennsylvania of submitting incomplete, inaccurate financial disclosures about its foreign ties and ordered the Ivy League […]
Congress Grills College Presidents With an Old Script and New Threats
Three college presidents apologized for not acting more aggressively to curb antisemitism on their campuses during a House committee hearing on Wednesday, in what Republicans […]
Detained Tufts Student Must Be Moved to Vermont, Court Rules
A Tufts University doctoral student who was arrested by masked federal agents in March must be returned to Vermont from a detention facility in Louisiana, […]
Was First Amendment Violated in Student Arrests? Trump Lawyer Won’t Say.
During a Tuesday hearing on the fate of two international students facing deportation, an appeals court judge asked a key question of the Trump administration. […]