In Antisemitism Hearing, Republicans Demand Discipline for Student Protesters
House Republicans used words like “violence,” “hijacking” and “chaos.” They asked the university leaders why so few protesters had been suspended. They showed videos and wielded a document with a bright red “F” grade. The leaders of Northwestern, Rutgers and the University of California, Los Angeles, responded with phrases like More...
Opinion | In the ‘Demandingly Joyful Company’ of Socrates and Plato
To the Editor: Re “Higher Education Needs More Socrates and Plato,” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Harun Küçük (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, May 19): I applaud Professors Emanuel and Küçük and their More...
Yale Chooses Maurie McInnis as New President
Yale University’s new president will be Maurie D. McInnis, currently the president of Stony Brook University, a New York state public university where she is known for raising the school’s profile, donations More...
In a Texas G.O.P. at War With Itself, the Hard Right Is Gaining
Republican hard-liners in Texas thought this year’s primary elections would be the moment when, after years of trying, they would finally be able to take decisive control of the State Legislature. They fell More...
Marymount Manhattan to Merge With Northeastern
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll look at merger plans for a small college in Manhattan. We’ll also look at whether congestion pricing will mean cleaner air in places where drivers go to avoid the tolls More...
U.C.L.A. Police Make First Arrest in Attack on Protest Encampment
More than three weeks after counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, the university police have made the first arrest related to the attack: an 18-year-old More...
Harvard Says It Will No Longer Take Positions on Matters Outside of the University
Harvard said on Tuesday that it would now avoid taking positions on matters that are not “relevant to the core function of the university,” accepting the recommendations of a faculty committee that urged More...
Trump Elevates a Conservative ‘Warrior’ on Education
In early 2021, Representative Byron Donalds, Republican of Florida, and his wife, Erika, took the stage at an event hosted by the Truth & Liberty Coalition, a group that pushes to inject Christianity into More...
Temporada de graduaciones en EE. UU.: la tradición desafía a las protestas
Togas alquiladas, música de marcha protocolar, plumas de plata de Tiffany… llegó la temporada de graduaciones en Estados Unidos. El mes de mayo nos trae un festival para los jóvenes de todo el país cuyas More...
U.Va. Faculty Calls for Review of Police Response to Protests
Protesters: “Disclose! Divest!” In student-led protests around the country, university faculty have stood in support of demonstrators, risking arrest. “He is a professor. He is a professor.” At the University More...
