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Rutgers President Stepping Down After Tumultuous Tenure
From a historic strike to pro-Palestine protests and an athletic director’s resignation, the first African American president of one the nation’s largest universities faced controversy atop controversy over the past two years.
Cornell Professor ‘Exhilarated’ by Hamas Attack Is Back Teaching
The Cornell University faculty member who said, roughly a week after Oct. 7, that Hamas’s attack “exhilarated” him is back...
Affirmative Action Gets Another Day in Court
Students for Fair Admissions sued the Naval Academy over its ongoing consideration of race in admissions, which the Supreme Court allowed in an exemption. The outcome could have broad implications.
Harvard Reports Drop in Black Student Enrollment
Fourteen percent of Harvard University’s Class of 2028 identify as Black or African American, a drop of four percentage points...
Harvard Makes Meager Progress in Slavery Reparation Efforts
Harvard University has made little progress on addressing its historical ties to slavery, despite committing $100 million to the cause...
Harvard Professors Protest Restrictions on Protests—With Chalk
Five Harvard University professors wielded chalk on campus Tuesday in protest of the institution’s new policy banning chalking and other...
An Early Look at Diversity Post–Affirmative Action
Colleges are slowly releasing demographic data for the Class of 2028, giving a glimpse of the Supreme Court ruling’s impact on racial diversity. The results are decidedly mixed.
Opinion
Making Sense of MIT’s Diversity Decline
Jim Jump considers the drop in underrepresented racial and ethnic minority students in MIT’s new entering class.