Tag: Colleges and Universities

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon speaks during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025, at the White House in Washington.

Patriotism and Unity

Universities should answer Washington with civic covenants of their own

Alejandro J. Ramos · August 7, 2026 11:00 am

FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015, file photo shows Duke Chapel in Durham, N.C. J. Samuel Hammond, a musician who played the bells at Duke University’s iconic chapel at the end of each academic day, marking the end of class for countless students over five decades, died Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, at age 73, the university said. (AP Photo/Jonathan Drew, File)

Duke Law School illegally considered race in admissions, DOJ says

Molly Parks · August 6, 2026 9:23 pm

Tents and pro-Palestinian protesters occupy a quad at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, Tuesday, May 21, 2024.

Beltway Confidential

Convicted for murder, praised terrorists — now teaching at Penn?

Peter Cordi · August 6, 2026 1:22 pm

Torchbearer Jason Arday carries the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg between Sutton and Merton, in London, July 23, 2012.

Youngest Black professor at Cambridge resigns as university investigates allegations of plagiarism

Associated Press · August 6, 2026 7:11 am

Members of the Vermont Geographic Alliance walk across campus at Castleton State College in Castleton, Vermont.

Dramatic decline in visas issued to Chinese and Indian students under Trump

Anna Giaritelli · August 4, 2026 1:29 pm

Nick Saban and other university heads at a congressional hearing.

Fairness and Justice

The Protect College Sports Act: Protecting student-athletes, preserving college sports

Justin Schwartz · August 4, 2026 11:00 am

Brown University President Christina Paxson

Brown president to step down as elite universities grapple with an empowered Trump administration

Max Grinstein · August 3, 2026 4:43 pm

People attend an event to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Cuba's late leader Fidel Castro, at the University of Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Elite US schools cozy with Cuban university linked to ‘intelligence network’

Hudson Crozier · July 31, 2026 5:00 am

Demonstrators march during a May Day rally at Arizona State University.

How universities taught an entire generation to hate the West

William Nye · July 30, 2026 12:00 pm

Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death nearly three years ago. (AP Photo/Kyle Green, Pool)

Bryan Kohberger intends to withdraw guilty plea in Idaho college murders

David Zimmermann · July 27, 2026 3:31 pm

Absent from CNN's roundup, however, was any mention of the murders of 13-year-old American-Israeli Hillel Yaffe Ariel and 48-year-old rabbi Michael "Miki" Mark. (AP Photo)

Hillel retracted its Harvard brief. Now they want to restore the broken trust

Ariella Noveck · July 27, 2026 10:00 am

An officer stands outside a Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the University of Pennsylvania

Trump administration scraps effort to subpoena list of Penn’s Jewish employees

Claire Carter · July 23, 2026 8:46 pm