Police officers swept onto the ordinarily serene campus of Emory University in Atlanta on Thursday, using what their department later described as “chemical irritants” to help subdue demonstrators. It was one of the latest clashes between police forces and a pro-Palestinian protest movement that has cascaded across American campuses. More than 400 protesters have been…
Depending on whom you ask, the University of Idaho’s plan to take over the University of Phoenix, a for-profit online school, is either a sweet deal or a potential disaster. C. Scott Green, the president of University of Idaho, said he viewed the agreement with a price tag of $550 million as a hedge against…
A Michigan man was arrested on Monday on murder charges related to the fatal shooting of two people in a dormitory at the University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs, the police said. Nicholas Jordan, 25, of Detroit, who was enrolled at the university, was arrested in Colorado Springs on first degree murder charges in…
Behind the Lawsuit Diversity statements — also known as diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I., statements — ask candidates seeking a faculty job or promotion to describe how they would contribute to campus diversity. In his lawsuit, John Haltigan, who has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology, said he would have applied to a position at…
The chancellor of a state university in Wisconsin was fired this week after posting pornographic videos with his wife online. The University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents unanimously decided to dismiss the chancellor, Joe Gow, who had led the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse since 2007 and was its longest-tenured leader since the 1960s. Carmen…
Since the Hamas attack in Israel, prominent Jewish alumni have increased pressure on university officials to speak out on the war. Tempers have been particularly high at the University of Pennsylvania, where the campus was already up in arms over a recent Palestinian literary conference. This week, influential alumni, angry over the university’s response to…
Multiple people were shot on the Morgan State University campus in Baltimore on Tuesday night, prompting a shelter-in-place order. The Baltimore Police Department later said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the incident was no longer considered an active shooter situation while continuing to ask people to shelter in place. A…
The president of Temple University in Philadelphia resigned on Tuesday after a brief and tumultuous tenure plagued by worsening crime around campus, a strike by graduate students and a loss of confidence in his leadership among some faculty. Jason Wingard, who became the university’s first Black president in 2021, sent a statement to the campus…
The violence at Michigan State University on Monday was the latest episode in a string of mass shootings on college campuses in the United States over the past few decades. Here are some of them: November 2022: Charlottesville, Va. Three University of Virginia students, who all played on the football team, were killed when a…
MOSCOW, Idaho — In the early morning hours when four students died in a brutal stabbing near the University of Idaho, several unanswered phone calls were made from one of the victim’s phones to her longtime boyfriend, deepening the mystery of their deaths nearly a week after the killings. The coroner who conducted autopsies on…