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News
Why Big Money Can’t Easily Change Campus Politics
The author of this newsletter takes a generally dim view of wealthy donors who give lots of money to America’s…
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World
On the Front Lines, an Israeli University Grieves and Readies for War
There is a rule at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in southern Israel, that a management professor shared this week.…
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World
A U.K. University Will Confer a New Title: A Master’s Degree in the Occult
The postgraduate degree, to be offered at the University of Exeter starting next year, will focus on the history of…
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World
At Harvard, a Battle Over What Should Be Said About the Hamas Attacks
After a student group blamed Israel for the violence, Lawrence Summers, a former university president, condemned the leadership for not…
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US
Texas A&M Agrees to $1 Million Settlement With Journalism Professor
A university report found that fears of a conservative backlash botched the effort to hire a Black professor, Kathleen McElroy,…
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World
At a Manhattan Park With a Troubled History, a Promising Research Site
The artificial pond in Morningside Park, on the site where Columbia University once tried to build a gym, has been…
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Sports
Alabama Basketball Manager Says He, Not Player, Was at Deadly Shooting
A freshman player sued The Times after it placed him at a crime scene. The newspaper will correct its coverage.
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US
Robert J. Zimmer, Who Promoted Free Speech on Campus, Dies at 75
A mathematician, he was for many years the president of the University of Chicago, where he argued that civility was…
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World
Should College Come With Trigger Warnings? At Cornell, It’s a ‘Hard No.’
When the student assembly voted to require faculty to alert students to upsetting educational materials, administrators pushed back.
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US
Columbia Names Nemat Shafik as President, the First Woman to Lead the University
The economist, who runs the London School of Economics, takes over as higher education faces tumult — over free speech,…