The agreement, if approved by a federal judge, could deliver the final hammer blow to the amateur model of college athletics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/ncaa-house-settlement-filed.html
A donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies will provide free tuition for Johns Hopkins medical students, if their families make less than $300,000 a year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/us/bloomberg-donation-free-tuition-johns-hopkins.html
In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/us/politics/yale-maurie-mcinnis-police-protest-stony-brook.html
The lawsuit was filed a year after the Supreme Court struck down the use of racial and gender preferences in college admissions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/us/affirmative-action-lawsuit.html
The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said the Bible was a “necessary historical document.” The mandate comes as part of a conservative movement to infuse Christian values in public schools...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/us/oklahoma-public-schools-bible.html
Groups investigating antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias cited instances of discrimination against pro-Israel students and “a pervasive climate of intolerance” against pro-Palestinian students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/harvard-antisemitism-muslim-bias.html
Federal pandemic aid helped keep school districts afloat, but that money is coming to an end.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/schools-budget-cuts-pandemic-aid.html
Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/pandemic-aid-recovery-schools.html
Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a statewide ban as states and large school districts have pursued similar prohibitions to prevent disruption and cyberbullying.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/california-newsom-smartphone-ban.html
Parents, desperate for help, are turning to private schools with a half-dozen or so students. And they are getting a financial boost from taxpayers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/us/public-schools-education-voucher-microschools.html
“Just because you have the right to say something doesn’t mean it’s right to say,” said Carol Christ, who is retiring as chancellor at the end of this month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/us/berkeley-carol-christ-protest-free-speech.html
The new rules, which would also significantly rein in demonstrations at the university in other ways, come on the heels of a nationwide wave of student activism against Israel’s actions in Gaza...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/us/penn-ban-encampments-campus-protests-gaza.html
Harvard and M.I.T. no longer require applicants for teaching jobs to explain how they would serve underrepresented groups. Other schools may follow.
At pro-Palestinian demonstrations, students have broken codes of conduct and, sometimes, the law. But the question of whether and how to discipline them is vexing universities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/us/college-protests-charges-students.html
Maurie D. McInnis, a cultural historian, will be the first woman to serve as the school’s permanent president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/us/new-yale-president-maurie-mcinnis.html
The policy could ease pressure on the school to issue statements on current events. Officials were criticized for their handling of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/harvard-university-statements-empathy.html
Byron Donalds is best known as a Trump defender and potential vice-presidential pick. But in Florida, the congressman and his wife made a name — and a business — in the charter school movemen...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/us/politics/trump-campaign-byron-donalds-florida.html
Edan On, an 18-year-old, was charged with assault. The police said he beat pro-Palestinian protesters with a wooden pole.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/us/ucla-protest-arrest-edan-on.html
Leaders of Northwestern, U.C.L.A. and Rutgers, drawing lessons from prior hearings, sought to avoid enraging either the Republicans on the committee or members of their own institutions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/us/house-hearing-republicans-campus-antisemitism.html
The job is not what it used to be. There are openings at U.C.L.A., Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Penn … and many, many others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/college-campus-president-antisemitism.html
Heidi Heitkamp was in her office at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics when protesters occupied the building.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/us/uchicago-protests-politics-institute.html
Students active in campus protests value Al Jazeera’s on-the-ground coverage and its perspective on the Israel-Hamas war. They draw distinctions between it and major American outlets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/business/media/al-jazeera-college-protests-gaza.html
Local law enforcement went in just a couple of hours after a protest encampment went up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/dartmouth-campus-protests-police-beilock.html
Columbia University has faced enormous public pressure over protests. But emails and interviews also show some of the private demands on the Ivy League school.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/us/columbia-university-donor-angelica-berrie.html
Invitations to Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield were withdrawn by Xavier University and the University of Vermont because of student objections to American support for Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/us/xavier-vermont-cancel-linda-thomas-greenfield.html
A Netflix star will not speak at a ceremony. Security is high. And some professors are pushing for the valedictorian, whose speech was canceled, to give an address.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/usc-graduation-protests.html
The university cited security concerns at the graduation. But the student, who is Muslim, said the school was “succumbing to a campaign of hate meant to silence my voice.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/usc-valedictorian-speech-gaza-war.html
Encampments? Occupying buildings? Demonstrators cite their right to free expression, but the issues are thorny.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/us/free-speech-campus-protests.html
In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and the impact of climate change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/us/pro-palestinian-college-protests.html
Representative Virginia Foxx is a blunt partisan. But her life in rural North Carolina informs her attacks against these schools, starting with whether Harvard is truly “elite.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/virginia-foxx-harvard-antisemitism.html
Pro-Palestinian supporters disrupted a dinner for law students. There was a tussle over the microphone and conflicting claims of harm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/uc-berkeley-palestinian-protest-free-speech.html
Welcome to the new “Office of Access and Engagement.” Schools are renaming departments and job titles to try to preserve diversity programs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/diversity-ban-dei-college.html
The universities are the latest highly selective schools to end their policies that made submitting SAT or ACT scores optional.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/harvard-test-scores-admissions.html
Rick Crosslin, a science teacher in Indianapolis, paired up with school maintenance employees to build a giant model of the eclipse.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/08/science/total-solar-eclipse/solar-eclipse-science-teachers
Dr. Levin faces the challenge of guiding the university through politically fraught times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/us/stanford-president-jonathan-levin.html
The parents were worried about crime, but the university said that the move raised concerns about training and experience, and that security was better left to its own police force.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/us/uc-berkeley-private-security.html
After decades of financial mismanagement, the nearly 170-year-old private liberal arts school is set to close at the end of May.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/birmingham-southern-college-closing.html
After decades of financial mismanagement, the nearly 170-year-old private liberal arts school is set to close at the end of May.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/birmingham-southern-college-closing.html
In government and as an outsider, Kenneth Marcus has tried to douse what he says is rising bias against Jews. Some see a crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/us/politics/kenneth-marcus-college-antisemitism-complaints.html
The university said SAT and ACT scores help it place students in programs that fit them best.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/ut-austin-standardized-test-admission.html
The new format cuts nearly an hour out of the exam and has shorter reading passages.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us/sat-online-digital-test-college.html
Harvard said it has been acting in good faith and submitted thousands of pages of new material.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/harvard-subpoena-antisemitism.html
On Tuesday, the historic 13-2 vote by the men’s basketball team to unionize took a significant step toward classifying student-athletes as employees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/dartmouth-basketball-union-athletes-employees.html
The school joins Yale, Dartmouth and M.I.T. in backtracking on “test optional” policies adopted during the pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/brown-university-admission-test-optional.html
The penalty is the largest ever imposed by the Education Department, which found that the school had punished sexual assault victims but not their assailants and created a “culture of silence.�...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/politics/liberty-university-fine-crime-sexual-assaults.html
Ahead of an expected drop in enrollment, the institution is looking to buy the University of Phoenix, a for-profit school with a checkered past. Is it worth $550 million?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/us/politics/idaho-university-phoenix-deal.html
The meeting was abruptly adjourned about 10 minutes in after a demonstration by pro-Palestinian students protesting the university’s ties with Israel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/us/upenn-student-protest-gaza.html
At a discussion led by a House panel, students criticized their universities for not cracking down on antisemitism. An antiwar group pointed out that Muslim and Arab students are facing harassmen...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/us/antisemitism-campus-jewish-students.html
Professor Raffaella Sadun’s departure from the task force is a setback for a group set up to propose ways for Harvard to address antisemitism on campus.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/us/raffaella-sadunco-harvard-antisemitism.html
At a summit of university presidents, the talk was about Harvard and its plummeting reputation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/us/harvard-antisemitism.html
The Oklahoma school superintendent, Ryan Walters, said “radical leftists” had created a narrative about the death of 16-year-old Nex Benedict that “hasn’t been true.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/us/oklahoma-nonbinary-student-superintendent.html
The state’s high school students will be required to take the subject, but some object to how the discipline addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/us/california-ethnic-studies-israel-gaza-war.html
The candidates had promised to challenge the university’s leadership, but failed to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot for the board.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/us/harvard-board-overseers-zuckerberg-ackman.html
A lawsuit accused the state of failing to provide an equal education to lower-income, Black and Hispanic students during the pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/us/california-remote-school-settlement-pandemic.html
Coleman Hughes wants a colorblind society. In his new book, he recounts how schools emphasized his racial identity — and other students’ white privilege.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/us/coleman-hughes-black-conservative-colorblind.html
Conservatives say diversity and equity programs are more divisive than unifying.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/us/states-anti-dei-laws-utah.html
The state legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that ends preferences for children of alumni. The governor appears poised to sign it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/us/virginia-legacy-college-admissions.html
Professors at the University of Pennsylvania have begun to organize, fearing what they view as a plan by the billionaire Marc Rowan to upend academic freedom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/university-of-pennsylvania-marc-rowan-magill.html
Black students were the most frequent reported victims, followed by L.G.B.T.Q. and Jewish students, according to F.B.I. statistics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/hate-crimes-schools-universities.html
In December, Florida’s education commissioner wrote that “sociology has been hijacked by left-wing activists.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/us/florida-universities-sociology.html
Five universities have agreed to pay $104.5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of violating an agreement to be “need-blind” when admitting students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/us/yale-columbia-price-fixing-settlement.html
Bill Ackman and Lawrence Summers decried the choice of Derek J. Penslar, a professor of Jewish history, who had signed a letter describing Israel as an apartheid regime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/us/harvard-antisemitism-larry-summers.html
The Supreme Court’s ruling intended to remove the consideration of race during the admissions process. So students used their essays to highlight their racial background.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/us/affirmative-action-ban-college-essays.html
The university released its most detailed account of its handling of plagiarism accusations against Claudine Gay, who resigned earlier this month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/us/harvard-report-plagiarism-house-committee-claudine-gay.html
Cases involving Stanford, Harvard and M.I.T. are fueling skepticism over the thoroughness of research — even from the academic world’s biggest stars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/us/plagiarism-harvard-claudine-gay-neri-oxman.html