How Does It Feel to Be an International Student in the U.S. Now?
The New York Times is looking to hear from international students in the United States about how the Trump administration’s immigration policies have affected them. We want to hear your thoughts about the policies, any challenges you have encountered and how you have adapted to the changes. We will read every submission and reach out if we’re More...
In Oklahoma, Counting Migrant Students May Have Gone Too Far
Oklahoma’s conservative Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, and its conservative Republican schools superintendent have appeared to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the years of Donald J. Trump, with the former More...
Will Religion’s Remarkable Winning Streak at the Supreme Court Continue?
It has been almost three years since the Supreme Court last heard arguments in a case that turned on one of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, a curious lull in what had been a signature project for More...
Leaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern Studies Center Will Leave
Two of the leaders of Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the director and associate director, will be leaving their positions, according to two professors with direct knowledge of the More...
How Colleges Are Surveilling Students Now
At the University of Pennsylvania last fall, someone splattered red paint on a statue honoring Benjamin Franklin, the school’s founder. Within hours, campus workers washed it off. But the university was eager More...
Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers
On March 9, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, sent an anxious text message to Najiba Akbar, the university’s former Muslim chaplain, with whom she had become close. “I recently More...
Columbia University’s President, Katrina Armstrong, Resigns
The interim president of Columbia University abruptly left her post Friday evening as the school confronted the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding and the Trump administration’s mounting More...
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 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...
