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Students

Universities Tell Judge Travel Ban Hurts Schools, Students

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s travel ban already has harmed some of the nation’s top universities, stranding students, faculty and scholars abroad and making foreign schools more attractive to some of the world’s brightest students, lawyers for the learning institutions told a federal judge. The schools said in papers filed Monday in Brooklyn federal […]

February 14, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Diverse Docket: Judge Throws Out Discrimination Suit Against Spalding U.

A former doctoral student at Spalding University isn’t entitled to readmission or to damages after a federal judge in Kentucky threw out his discrimination suit.

February 13, 2017

Students

Yale Removes Slave Proponent’s Name from Residence Hall

After a wave of student protests, Yale University announced over the weekend that it would remove the name of John C. Calhoun—a Yale alumnus—who was a proponent of slavery, from an undergraduate residence hall.

February 12, 2017

Students

Guillermo: Under Trump, Education Loses Out to Distractions

After just three weeks, you’ve got to hand it to Trump 45. He’s terrorized us all and shaken up politics in America.

February 12, 2017

Students

Forged Racist Emails Cause Stir at University of Michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Someone sent racist and anti-Semitic emails to University of Michigan students and made it look like they were from a computer science professor who pushed for presidential election recounts in several states. About 40 students protested early Wednesday outside the home of the school’s president, Mark Schlissel, about the spoofed emails […]

February 8, 2017

Students

University of Wisconsin Student Abandons Plans for Pro-White Group

MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin student trying to form a pro-White group has abandoned his efforts after intense backlash from other students and university officials. American Freedom Party National Chairman William Johnson confirmed Monday that Daniel Dropik is no longer forming a Madison chapter after an Associated Press reporter noticed the group’s website […]

February 7, 2017

Students

Penn Center Aims to Boost Hispanic Faculty Pipeline

Many colleges and universities across the United States have committed to recruiting more faculty of color. In some cases, they are facing pressure from students to do so. Recent student protests at institutions like the University of Missouri centered around the dearth of faculty of color on campus, among other issues. Yet, despite intentional efforts […]

February 6, 2017

Students

Guillermo: How Far are Colleges, Scholars Ready to Go Against Trump?

As the legal back and forth on the Trump executive order is creating a public mini-course on constitutional law and presidential power, it’s clear higher ed has an opinion about closing of borders to immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries.

February 5, 2017

Students

ACLU: Time Not Right for National Student ID

The ACLU told the Education Writers Association that a national student ID that would help track outcomes would be subject to misuse as a result of the Trump administration’s “outward hostility” to immigrants and Muslims.

February 5, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Brown University President Reappointed for 2nd 5-year Term

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The president of Brown University has been reappointed, extending her tenure into 2022. The Corporation of Brown University appointed Christina Paxson to a second five-year term. Chancellor Samuel Mencoff says the group is confident in Paxson’s “steady hand, clear vision, energetic leadership and boundless passion for Brown.” He notes that the reappointment […]

February 5, 2017

Faculty & Staff

‘You are not American’: ODU Professor Apologizes for Email

NORFOLK, Va. — An Old Dominion University statistics professor has apologized for telling a group of faculty, administrators and graduate students in an email that they “are not American” if they didn’t attend any of a series of upcoming events centered around diversity. The Virginian-Pilot reports that associate professor Norou Diawara sent the email Monday […]

February 2, 2017

International

Iranian Researcher Blocked from Entering U.S. Sues Trump

BOSTON — An Iranian scientist heading to Boston to take a job at a Harvard Medical School lab has sued President Donald Trump after she was denied entry into the U.S. Samira Asgari says in her lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court that she was denied entry to the U.S. even though she had […]

February 2, 2017