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The Battle Over College Speech Will Outlive the Encampments
Early on the afternoon of Nov. 10, Jameel Jaffer, the director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University,…
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Harvard Says It Will No Longer Take Positions on Matters Outside of the University
The policy could ease pressure on the school to issue statements on current events. Officials were criticized for their handling…
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Harvard Should Say Less. Maybe All Schools Should.
Last fall, Harvard University’s leadership found itself at the center of a highly public, highly charged fight about taking an…
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In House Hearing, Republicans Demand Discipline for Student Protesters
Leaders of Northwestern, U.C.L.A. and Rutgers, drawing lessons from prior hearings, sought to avoid enraging either the Republicans on the…
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Graduation’s Pomp Goes On, No Matter the Circumstance
Commencement is the rare American ritual that still has rules. That’s why it’s ripe for disruption.
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Who is Jonathan Holloway?
When Jonathan Holloway, a scholar of African American history, was appointed as the 21st president of Rutgers in 2020, he…
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U.C.L.A. Removes Police Chief in the Wake of a Protest Melee
University of California, Los Angeles officials have been widely criticized for their failure to stop attacks on pro-Palestinian protesters at…
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Anyone Want to Be a College President? There Are (Many) Openings
The job is not what it used to be. There are openings at U.C.L.A., Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Penn … and…
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Protesters Take Over the Institute of Politics at University of Chicago
They confronted the institute’s director, the former senator Heidi Heitkamp. At the University of Pennsylvania, demonstrators also tried to occupy…
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Protesters Agreed to Leave. This Is What Some Colleges Promised in Return.
Several universities struck agreements with pro-Palestinian demonstrators to end disruptive encampments on their campuses. But some of those agreements are…