Those of us who seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
A university senate review concludes that some demonstrators who occupied Hamilton Hall were willing to leave voluntarily.
California Democrats rejected two Republican bills that would have banned transgender athletes from female sports. In a rare turn, Republicans tried to use the Democratic governor’s own words to challenge Democrats.
We’re really still doing this?
Civil rights advocates say Canary Mission is doxxing critics of Israel and providing a possible road map for immigration agents as they sweep up students in a campus crackdown.
Readers discuss how universities should respond to the administration’s demands and threats to cut off funding.
The Trump administration has sought to punish universities financially, saying they have not done enough to combat antisemitism or comply with other administration priorities.
El fármaco se ha convertido en una especie de símbolo de resistencia a lo que algunos en el movimiento MAGA describen como una élite corrupta.
A crackdown targeting foreign students protesting Israel’s treatment of Palestinians conflicts with free-speech protections that lawmakers added in 1990.
The Fisher Center at Bard has announced a wave of works by artists including Suzan-Lori Parks, Courtney Bryan, Barrie Kosky and Lisa Kron.
Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. student who had been suspended by the university after participating in pro-Palestinian protests, said he “took the decision to leave the United States.”
As Bertolt Brecht wrote, it is an unhappy land that needs heroes.
Harvard, the wealthiest school in the world, sought compromise amid pressure to do more to combat antisemitism. The Trump administration is examining its funding anyway.
A judge cleared David Piegaro of wrongdoing after he was charged with assaulting a police officer while recording pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations last year.
Elise Stefanik, a prominent Republican, questioned Claire Shipman’s commitment to protecting Jewish students. Ms. Shipman pledged “to build on the significant progress we’ve made.”
Lawyers and experts say the arrest last week of a University of Minnesota graduate student may signal a new front in the Trump administration’s approach to immigration.
The move follows the cancellation of roughly $400 million in funding for Columbia and the suspension of $175 million for the University of Pennsylvania.
Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
Suddenly Liz Moore blazed, comet-like, onto small screens and best-seller lists. But her writing career has been a slow burn.
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown at universities has targeted pro-Palestinian students who have been in the United States legally.
Higher education cannot cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.
The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.
One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.
His wide-ranging work drew on field research in his native Sri Lanka as well as his extensive study of English literature and Christian mysticism.
Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men, whose enrollment levels at four-year colleges have plummeted across the board.
Leaders at top-flight law firms, Columbia University and inside City Hall are weighing decisions that pit the fates of their institutions against their own reputations.
Students at the American University of Afghanistan in Qatar fear having to return to their Taliban-ruled homeland after aid and visa cutoffs by the Trump administration.
The former television journalist and co-chair of the university’s board of trustees takes the helm at a time of significant peril for the institution.
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
The Trump administration said she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” Her friends and lawyers say all she did was co-author an essay critical of the war in Gaza.
The Trump administration is trying to deport pro-Palestinian students who are legally in the United States, citing national security. First Amendment experts say that violates free speech protections. Anemona Hartocollis, a national reporter for T...
To rebuild trust and resist interference, universities must look within.
Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Experts say it’s a new frontier in campus security that could threaten civil liberties.
La Casa Blanca afirma que estas medidas, muchas de las cuales afectan a migrantes con visados y tarjetas de residencia, son necesarias porque las personas detenidas representan una amenaza para la seguridad nacional.
The justice made remarks at once cautious and forceful at Georgetown University Law Center, which has called attacks by the Trump administration a threat to academic freedom.
University officials said they had not been informed of the federal agents’ plans and called the situation “deeply concerning.”
Harvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism.
Katrina Armstrong is leaving the post a week after the university agreed to a list of demands from the White House.
Momodou Taal is from a political family and found his muse in Malcolm X. He joined a pro-Palestinian movement that led to his suspension. Now, he is fighting to stay in the United States.
The government wants the detainee’s case heard in Louisiana, where an appellate judge may be friendlier. At a hearing in Newark, one of his lawyers called the situation “Kafkaesque.”
The University of Maryland says it is honoring Jim Henson, an alumnus, with its choice of commencement speaker. Some students think it is avoiding “real issues.”
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents.
Los casos de trisomía 18 pueden aumentar a medida que muchos estados restringen el aborto. Pero algunas mujeres deciden tener a los bebés, amarlos con ternura y cuidarlos con devoción.
Unos biólogos de Nueva Zelanda grabaron lo que creen que es el primer caso de un tiburón que hace ruido activamente.
Severe storms dumped about half a year’s rainfall in two days, leading to flash floods across both sides of the border.
Protests are raging in Turkey after the arrest of the country’s most prominent opposition politician.
The Trump administration is looking to deport pro-Palestinian students who are legally in the United States, citing national security. Critics say that violates free speech protections.
California banned affirmative action decades ago. The Trump administration says it plans to investigate whether schools there are still considering race.
As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.
Michigan, once at the forefront of school diversity efforts, is rapidly changing course amid campus pushback and broad scrutiny by the Trump administration.
The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the State Department under his direction had revoked the visas of more than 300 people and was continuing to revoke visas daily.
La cámara funeraria probablemente perteneció a un gobernante de una línea de reyes antaño perdida para la historia, dijeron los investigadores.
Students and neighbors are suing the school, magnifying the broader complaint that institutions stifle free expression when they restrict access to public spaces following protests.
Many entertainment industry workers have been jobless for months, leading state officials to consider increasing subsidies to keep film and television production in California.
Vallejo Gantner, a longtime arts administrator in New York City, has taken over as artistic and executive director at PS21 in Chatham, N.Y.
Columbia University’s gates, closed in 2023 in anticipation of demonstrations over the war in Gaza, are at the center of a lawsuit. In an emailed statement, a university spokesperson said the school is “focused on ensuring that all of our students...
A new take on Wynton Marsalis’s “Blues Symphony,” a piano cycle by Gregory Spears and Rosa Feola’s solo debut are among the highlights.
Ro Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, sees the vice president — a likely heir to President Trump’s political movement — as a unique threat to the constitutional order.
Researchers in New Zealand have made what they believe is the first recording of a shark actively making noise.
The burial chamber most likely belonged to a ruler in a line of kings once lost to history, researchers said. “It’s a new chapter in investigating this dynasty,” one noted.
And how universities can fight the president’s “destroying agenda.”
A FEMA funding freeze illustrates the extraordinary power of Elon Musk and DOGE, who have made claims of undue benefits for undocumented immigrants and spurred swift action by federal officials.
A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage.
In some ways, the prodigy now starring for Arkansas in the N.C.A.A. tournament is an urban basketball archetype. But this is not the same old story.
La estudiante fue detenida fuera del campus universitario. El miércoles circuló por las redes sociales un video en el que se veía a una mujer con hiyab, esposada y conducida por agentes.
A spokeswoman for the school said the detainment occurred off campus, but it was not immediately clear why the student had been targeted.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen and a Muslim, was heading out to break her Ramadan fast with friends Tuesday night when she was detained by agents from the Department of Homeland Security.
The world’s most famous green frog will likely give some encouraging words, and possibly a few ribbits, to the class of 2025.
In a show that features an array of disturbing story lines, the actions — and wardrobe — of a character have gone “too far” for the university.
A regulator penalized the school three years after a professor quit in response to what she said was a campaign of harassment over her views on transgender identity.
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who may have contributed to his murals and paintings.
Students sued to stop Columbia from giving their disciplinary records to the federal government, which has demanded that the university rein in demonstrations.
The administration has been seeking to arrest and deport Yunseo Chung, who immigrated from South Korea as a child, after she participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Readers weigh in on the capitulation of the law firm Paul, Weiss to the Trump administration’s demands. Also: Beyond campus stereotypes; analog parenting.
The Trump administration’s cancellation of $400 million in aid violates the Constitution, a teachers’ union and a faculty group argue in a new suit.
The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers.
Plus, why you might develop allergies as an adult.
European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.
Trump says one thing about toxins and does another.
The largest-ever class of high school seniors is about to graduate, just as colleges are facing major upheaval. Here’s what they could face as they head to campus.
Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.
The war in Gaza brought more students into the Hillel fold, but has sown divisions among Jewish students over the group’s mission.
While some professors rallied to criticize the changes, federal officials called the university’s actions a “positive first step” in maintaining a financial relationship.
The suit was filed by a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7 and who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus.
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
As the Trump administration makes cuts and extends hiring freezes, career paths might look different.
The lawsuits accuse the government of dismantling the department without the required approval of Congress.
Richard D. Kahlenberg has long argued for colleges to weigh socioeconomic status to promote diversity. His position is more relevant than ever.
How colleges are responding to pressure from the administration, and what it might mean for the future of America’s university system.
The Netflix co-founder said he wanted his alma mater to become a leader in studying the consequences, and guiding beneficial uses, of artificial intelligence.
Durante cuatro décadas, una emisora de radio financiada por Estados Unidos provocó la ira del gobierno comunista de Cuba. El presidente Trump la desmanteló en cuestión de días.
This is certainly an administration that reminds us why the framers decided on separation of powers.
For four decades, a U.S.-financed broadcaster provoked the ire of the communist government in Cuba. President Trump dismantled it in a matter of days.
The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.
What was next? Launching a plan, surviving the chaos of an apartment hunt, moving to New York, going back to school, and settling in.
The Trump administration is now accusing the Columbia University graduate and protest leader of having withheld information when he applied for permanent residency status.
President Trump and Elon Musk took in the Division I wrestling championship in Philadelphia on Saturday. But some of Mr. Trump’s supporters expressed complicated feelings about his billionaire adviser.
When we let computers write our stories, we lose something essential.
Los científicos están utilizando el aprendizaje automático para encontrar nuevos tratamientos entre miles de medicamentos antiguos.
Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices.
Readers respond to the Trump administration’s punitive cuts at Columbia and other schools and the future of higher education.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on navigating the power dynamics of a life-altering request.
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.
The student, who is from Gambia and was involved in pro-Palestinian activism on campus, was told to report to the immigration agency’s offices.
“A.I. companies are slowly and haltingly learning to speak the language of Donald Trump.”
It is one thing to sacrifice liberty in the face of a real threat. To manufacture threats in order to sacrifice liberty is another matter altogether.
The beloved magazine started by Lewis Lapham, who died last year, is being acquired by Bard College.
President Trump signed an order calling for the agency to close, and has already gutted its staff and programs. Still, students may not see much change, at least at first.
Yeshiva, a Modern Orthodox Jewish school in New York, had refused for years to recognize the club. The resulting legal fight reached the Supreme Court.
The lawsuit says the university did not protect the activists from counterprotesters. Jewish students are also suing the university, saying it did not protect them from pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
Joshua Steven Riibe, el joven, nunca fue nombrado sospechoso de la desaparición de Sudiksha Konanki en Punta Cana. Los padres de Konanki creen que su hija se ahogó.
The man, Joshua Steven Riibe, was never named as a suspect in the disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki in Punta Cana, but he said he had not been allowed to leave the Dominican Republic.
Readers reflect on troubled parent-child relationships. Also: Support for a pro-Palestinian activist; what President Trump means by “great.”
A demand for the university’s administration to place the Middle Eastern studies department under receivership could signal a broader crackdown across the United States.
President Trump and state politicians are pushing new laws and policies that crack down on curriculum, protests and speakers.
The darkly comic Southern novelist kept a quiet practice in the visual arts. For the centenary of her birth, her paintings are finally getting an audience — and updating her legacy.
Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.
Many in higher education worry Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.
The restored building in Bedford-Stuyvesant was once home to the College of St. John the Baptist, which later became St. John’s University.
The statements had risen in popularity as colleges sought to improve campus culture, but they drew criticism from conservatives who argued they were a political test.
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the deportation of Badar Khan Suri, an Indian citizen teaching on an academic visa.
A day after pushing for a partial ban on face coverings, Gov. Kathy Hochul said she favored a less stringent proposal that would target “masked harassment.”
The decision is the latest clash between a university and the administration as it pushes schools to end diversity programming and adopt stricter discipline, among other things.
The Trump administration has sought to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate, though he is a legal permanent resident and has not been charged with a crime.
We need less administrative bloat in science.
Lawyers at NYU Langone Health have identified terms to avoid or scrutinize as the medical center navigates Trump administration executive orders aimed at D.E.I. programs.
Democratic and Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database on thousands of children had been deleted.
In an opinion on Tuesday, a federal judge found that suspension of programs aimed at training and supporting educators would have “grave effect on the public.”
Derided by the MAGA right and yelled at by the far left, the Senate Democratic leader is inhabiting a very Jewish place right now.
How the federal government became “an outdated software system that must be replaced.”
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
Rasha Alawieh fue detenida en Boston y se le denegó la entrada cuando volvía de un viaje a Líbano. El gobierno de EE. UU. afirma que asistió al funeral de un dirigente de Hizbulá.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh was detained in Boston and denied entry when returning from a trip to Lebanon. The government says she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral.
The Trump administration’s effort to have his case heard in Louisiana could let some of America’s most conservative judges set a precedent on deportations.
Las autoridades de inmigración estadounidenses revocaron el visado de estudiante de Ranjani Srinivasan. Ese fue solo el principio de su odisea.
Rasha Alawieh, especialista en trasplantes de riñón y profesora universitaria, tenía una visa válida y fue expulsada en aparente desafío a una orden judicial.
Harvard is the latest elite school to announce that families with incomes of $200,000 and under will not pay tuition as a way to bolster diversity.
The government has demanded drastic changes to the university before it will consider reinstating $400 million. Lee C. Bollinger, the school’s former president, calls it an “existential threat.”
An undrafted, 6-foot-1 point guard with patchy hair, he made an enduring fashion statement and became seen as the ultimate Seattle SuperSonic.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
Mahmoud Khalil never shielded his face with a mask the way some protesters did. That made him a target when President Trump decided to move aggressively against campus activists.
The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil show that the culture war is no longer just a culture war.
The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
What went wrong for higher education?