New York lawmakers are considering a measure that would dramatically weaken their oversight over religious schools, potentially a major victory for the state’s Hasidic Jewish community. The proposal, which could…
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Trump Resistance? It’s Not a Full Movement, but It’s Growing.
When President Trump swept back into office, his dejected opponents watched as his return was greeted not with mass resistance but with a sense of resignation. Protesters stayed home. Corporations…
Mohsen Mahdawi, Columbia Student Detained by Trump Administration, is Freed
Mohsen Mahdawi, an organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement at Columbia University, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday, more than two weeks after immigration officials detained him and sought to…
Trump Threatens Chicago School Funding Over Black Student Success Plan
The Trump administration threatened on Tuesday to withhold federal funds from Chicago’s publicschools over a program designed to help Black students do better academically, furthering the White House’s assault on…
Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research
On April 1, the Trump administration’s effort to slash government funding arrived in Morgantown, W.Va., where federal scientists spent their days studying health and safety threats to American workers. That…
Feeling Political Heat From Trump, Colleges Pump Up Their Lobbying
Top colleges in the cross hairs of President Trump have sharply increased their spending on lobbying, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Ten universities that have been…
International Students Worry Even as Trump Temporarily Restores Some Legal Statuses
When Karl Molden, a sophomore at Harvard University from Vienna, learned that the Trump administration had abruptly restored thousands of international students’ ability to legally study in the United States,…
Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump
The Trump administration’s swift initial rollout of orders seeking more control over universities left schools thunderstruck. Fearing retribution from a president known to retaliate against his enemies, most leaders in…
Who’s Speaking at College Graduations Across the U.S.?
The federal government has investigated prominent universities, paused grant funding and revoked student visas. And still, it is graduation season on American campuses, where thousands of young adults will soon…
Can Harvard’s Endowment Help It Fight Trump?
Does the world’s richest university have enough money to survive a battle with the most powerful man in the world? Alan Blinder, a national correspondent for The New York Times…