The Man Who Helped Redefine Campus Antisemitism
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.
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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.
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After decades of financial mismanagement, the nearly 170-year-old private liberal arts school is set to close at the end of May.
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Students will take a new SAT on Saturday. It’s all digital, and the reading and writing sections do away with page-long reading excerpts with eight to 11 questions.
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The new format cuts nearly an hour out of the exam and has shorter reading passages.
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U. of Texas at Austin Will Return to Standardized Test Requirement
The university said SAT and ACT scores help it place students in programs that fit them best.
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‘Scary and Daunting’: Dartmouth Players Detail How Union Plan Came Together
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.
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Liberty University Fined $14 Million for Mishandling Sex Assaults and Other Crimes
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.”
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Harvard’s Response to Subpoenas Is Called ‘Useless’ by House Committee
Harvard said it has been acting in good faith and submitted thousands of pages of new material.
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Brown University Will Reinstate Standardized Tests for Admission
The school joins Yale, Dartmouth and M.I.T. in backtracking on “test optional” policies adopted during the pandemic.
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University of Idaho Needs More Students. Should It Buy an Online School?
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?
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After Nonbinary Student’s Death, Schools Chief Defends Restrictive Gender Policies
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.”
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Co-Chair of Harvard Antisemitism Task Force Resigns
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.
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Jewish Students Describe Facing Antisemitism on Campus to Members of Congress
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 harassment, too.
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California’s Push for Ethnic Studies Runs Into the Israel-Hamas War
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.
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Back to School and Back to Normal. Or at Least Close Enough.
As school began this year, we sent reporters to find out how much — or how little — has changed since the pandemic changed everything.
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At the Edge of a Cliff, Some Colleges Are Teaming Up to Survive
Faced with declining enrollment, smaller schools are harnessing innovative ideas — like course sharing — to attract otherwise reluctant students.
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Community Schools Offer More Than Just Teaching
The concept has been around for a while, but the pandemic reinforced the importance of providing support to families and students to enhance learning.
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Could Tutoring Be the Best Tool for Fighting Learning Loss?
In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
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Meeting the Mental Health Challenge in School and at Home
From kindergarten through college, educators are experimenting with ways to ease the stress students are facing — not only from the pandemic, but from life itself.
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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.
By Lola Fadulu
The national debate about so-called woke campuses does not reflect what most college students care about.
By Tressie McMillan Cottom
Faculty members in public universities could be disciplined or fired, even those with tenure, if they are found to fall short of the new requirements.
By Campbell Robertson and Anna Betts
Supporters of the little-known college on Friday celebrated its moment of fame after a shocking first-round win.
By Anna Betts and Ryan Patrick Hooper
Both the Columbia and N.Y.U. women’s teams made it to postseason tournaments.
By James Barron
China has produced a huge number of top A.I. engineers in recent years. New research shows that, by some measures, it has already eclipsed the United States.
By Paul Mozur and Cade Metz
Attendees of the rowdy ’80s and ’90s-era spring festival in Atlanta are wondering whether — and how — they might show up in a new documentary about it.
By Rick Rojas
With anger rising over pro-Palestinian protests, the university’s regents are set to vote on a proposal that would draw tighter boundaries around speech.
By Vimal Patel
The measure would not only cut funding to diversity programs at public colleges, but also limit the teaching of “divisive concepts” surrounding race and gender.
By Emily Cochrane
A Missouri high school program teaches students to take freshly killed animals from the field to the classroom and into the kitchen.
By Katie Currid and Mark Josephson
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