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The state of Tennessee and the group that successfully sued Harvard to stop race-conscious college admissions is challenging a federal program that provides tens of millions of dollars a year to colleges that serve Hispanic students. The lawsuit, brought by Students for Fair Admissions, targets a program to support so-called Hispanic Serving Institutions, which include … Read more

Inspired by the civil rights movement, Gus Trowbridge, who had grown up on Philadelphia’s Main Line, and his wife, Marty, conceived the school in the image of the institutions they had attended and admired. The Trowbridges had both come of age at Putney, a back-to-the-land boarding school in Vermont, before going to Brown University. Moving … Read more

Florida officials on Tuesday rejected the candidacy of Santa Ono to lead the University of Florida, after he had been accused of leniency toward pro-Palestinian protesters while serving as president of the University of Michigan. The University of Florida’s board unanimously approved Dr. Ono last week, but the state’s Board of Governors, which oversees the … Read more

China was already scoring wins in its rivalry with the United States for scientific talent. It had drawn some of the world’s best researchers to its campuses, people decorated with Nobel Prizes, MacArthur “Genius” grants and seemingly every other academic laurel on offer. Now the Trump administration’s policies might soon bolster China’s efforts. Under President … Read more

Thousands of administrative employees at Brown University woke up this spring to an email with pointed Elon Musk-like questions about their job responsibilities. Please describe your role, it asked. What tasks have you performed in the past week? How would Brown students be affected if your job didn’t exist? The March 18 email was from … Read more

President Trump said on Wednesday that he would prevent Harvard University’s international students from entering the country, an aggressive move the school called “illegal.” Mr. Trump, in the same proclamation, also urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to consider revoking current visas for Harvard students. The extraordinary action marks the first time Mr. Trump has … Read more

For more than 60 years, my family owned a small paint factory in Long Island City, Queens, in the shadow of the neon Pepsi-Cola sign just across the East River from Manhattan. That factory and the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant are long gone — two of the hundreds of industrial facilities that once existed throughout the … Read more