Cornell Student Facing Deportation Felt Drawn to Protest
Momodou Taal, the British-Gambian Ph.D. student who faces possible deportation for his pro-Palestinian activism at Cornell, said he never envisioned becoming embroiled in an American protest movement when he arrived on campus in 2022. He had been mostly content to study, teach and work on his dissertation, a look at sovereignty and political economy More...
What We Know About the Detentions of Student Protesters
The Trump administration is trying to deport pro-Palestinian students and academics who are legally in the United States, a new front in its clash with elite schools over what it says is their failure to combat More...
University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program
The University of Michigan will eliminate its central diversity, equity and inclusion program, the school announced on Thursday, seeking to overhaul an ambitious and expensive initiative that it had long cast More...
Trump Challenges California on Transgender Parental Notification
The Trump administration announced an investigation Thursday into the state of California, saying its new law protecting transgender students from unwanted disclosures to their parents violated federal law. The More...
ICE Agents Detain University of Alabama Doctoral Student
A doctoral student at the University of Alabama was detained by federal immigration authorities, the university said in a statement on Wednesday, one of more than half a dozen students who have been targeted More...
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
An international student in a graduate program at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, according to the university’s president and an attorney More...
How Crises on Colleges Campuses Might Affect Students
Colleges are expecting what could be the largest freshman class ever this fall at a moment of extraordinary turmoil, as campuses face financial pressures from the federal government and political conflict over More...
Trump Administration Is Sued Over Push to Dismantle Education Department
The Trump administration’s campaign to dismantle the Education Department drew a pair of court challenges on Monday, as opponents called the plan an attempt to evade congressional authority. The first lawsuit More...
As Trump Administration Cuts Funding, Researchers Turn to European Universities
Just hours after opening its new program for American researchers called Safe Place for Science in reaction to Trump administration policies, Aix Marseille University received its first application. Since then, More...
Hillel, the Campus Jewish Group, Is Thriving, and Torn by Conflict
It was chicken tenders night at Yale’s chapter of Hillel, the Jewish student group, and the basement dining hall was packed with boisterous, hungry students attracted by overflowing vats of kosher fried chicken More...
