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Speaker Johnson and crowd at Columbia

A President Battered but Not Broken

On a visit to the Columbia campus, House Speaker Mike Johnson added to the mounting criticism of Minouche Shafik as pro-Palestinian protests rage on.

Opinion

For Pell Grants to Help Incarcerated Learners, Credits Must Transfer

Transfer advocates will be essential to improving credit mobility of higher education in prison programming.

An analog clock sits nestled in between bound stacks of hundred dollar bills

Biden Administration Finalizes Overtime Rule

The updated regulation will require colleges and universities across the country to either raise staff salaries to $58,656 or grant them overtime pay by Jan. 1, 2025.

New York Will Require Students to Complete FAFSA or Opt Out

New York State will require public school districts to certify that every high school senior completes the Free Application for...
Representative Mike Lawler stands before a microphone at a press conference outside Columbia University.

U.S. Lawmakers Take Aim at Another University President

As Columbia’s Minouche Shafik works to calm tensions on her campus, House Republicans representing New York and others say she needs to go.

A student in a red sweater takes a podium at a Title IX protest in December

New Title IX Rules Are Out. Here’s What You Need to Know.

Designed to protect college and university students and employees from sex-based harassment and sexual violence, the regulations will overhaul how institutions respond to reports of sexual misconduct, among other changes.

A photograph of Minouche Shafik looking serious and concerned.

Columbia President Accused of Dishonest Testimony, Throwing Professors ‘Under the Bus’

Minouche Shafik denounced antisemitism more forcefully than past Ivy League presidents in Wednesday's hearing, but Republicans who questioned her still aren’t satisfied. And some faculty members are alarmed.

Columbia President Minouche Shafik speaks before a House committee

Columbia President Weathers Grilling Over Campus Antisemitism

Wednesday’s heavily hyped hearing didn’t deliver a raft of damaging viral moments. But Columbia professors came under withering scrutiny that’s likely just begun.