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 moves. The department had been under criticism from alumni that it had an anti-Israel bias, and the university more broadly has been under 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...
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...
