For months now, President Trump has been threatening to deport foreign students who took part in last year’s campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. Behind the scenes, his administration got to work. Investigators from a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that typically focuses on human traffickers and drug smugglers scoured the internet for social … Read more
Texas Tech University has shut down its campus and sent students home early for spring break after a series of explosions and manhole fires, the university said in an emergency alert. An explosion at a substation near the school Wednesday evening caused power outages across campus, the university said. Conditions quickly devolved, with the university … Read more
Over the course of 20 days in March 2020, 55 million American children stopped going to school as Covid-19 swept the United States. What was impossible to anticipate then was that millions of those students would not return to classrooms full-time until September 2021, a year and a half later. Those children and teenagers, often … Read more
Deep cuts to staff and funding in the Department of Education will deal a major blow to the public’s understanding of how American students are performing and what schools can do to improve. On Tuesday evening, at least 100 federal workers who focus on education research, student testing and basic data collection were laid off … Read more
Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, began a new job in 2023 as the deputy director of a project at Yale Law School. As an activist who had championed pro-Palestinian causes in both published papers and public appearances, Dr. Doutaghi seemed to fit into the left-leaning mission of the Law and Political Economy Project, … Read more
The Education Department announced on Tuesday that it was firing more than 1,300 workers, effectively gutting the agency that manages federal loans for college, tracks student achievement and enforces civil rights laws in schools. The layoffs mean that the department, which started the year with 4,133 employees, will now have a work force of about … Read more
new video loaded: Protests Break Out Following Arrest of Palestinian Activist transcript Back transcript Protests Break Out Following Arrest of Palestinian Activist People protested the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian student movement at Columbia University and a permanent resident of the U.S. We want justice, you say how? “Free Mahmoud … Read more
3 Charts That Show Students Still Struggle After Covid
Just a few years ago, university statements on the day’s social and political issues abounded. When Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, Harvard’s president at the time called it “senseless” and “deplorable,” and flew the invaded country’s flag in Harvard Yard. After George Floyd died under the knee of a white police officer, Cornell’s president said … Read more
The Trump administration warned 60 universities on Monday that they could face penalties from pending investigations into antisemitism on college campuses, a threat sharpened in recent days by its cancellation of funding to Columbia University and the arrest of a protest leader there. The list of five dozen schools included colleges from both Republican- and … Read more