It has been almost three years since the Supreme Court last heard arguments in a case that turned on one of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, a curious…
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Education
How Colleges Are Surveilling Students Now
At the University of Pennsylvania last fall, someone splattered red paint on a statue honoring Benjamin Franklin, the school’s founder. Within hours, campus workers washed it off. But the university…
Targeting of Tufts Student for Deportation Stuns Friends and Teachers
On March 9, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, sent an anxious text message to Najiba Akbar, the university’s former Muslim chaplain, with whom she had become…
In Oklahoma, Counting Migrant Students May Have Gone Too Far
Oklahoma’s conservative Republican governor, Kevin Stitt, and its conservative Republican schools superintendent have appeared to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the years of Donald J. Trump, with the former sending Oklahoma guardsmen…
University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program
The University of Michigan will eliminate its central diversity, equity and inclusion program, the school announced on Thursday, seeking to overhaul an ambitious and expensive initiative that it had long…
ICE Agents Detain University of Alabama Doctoral Student
A doctoral student at the University of Alabama was detained by federal immigration authorities, the university said in a statement on Wednesday, one of more than half a dozen students…
Tufts Student Detained by ICE
An international student in a graduate program at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, according to the university’s president and an attorney…
Judge Blocks Education Officials From Providing Sensitive Data to Musk’s Team
A federal judge in Maryland granted a preliminary injunction on Monday barring top officials at the Education Department and the Office of Personnel Management from turning over sensitive data to…
As Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat
Just hours after opening its new program for American researchers called Safe Place For Science in reaction to Trump administration policies, Aix Marseille University received its first application. Since then,…
‘It Sounds Strange, Doesn’t It?’ Trump Muses About Gutting the Education Dept.
It seemed as if the president just needed a little reassurance. He was in the East Room of the White House, which was packed with jittery children, conservative activists, influencers…