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Many Students Are Facing Campus Discipline for Protesting. What Could That Mean?
By Sonel Cutler and Alecia Taylor Activists who have been punished for putting up encampments face the possibility of formal warnings, eviction from campus housing, interim suspension, or expulsion.
The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses – podcast
Police have arrested dozens of students across US universities this week after a crackdown on pro-Palestine protests on campuses. Erum Salam and Margaret Sullivan report from New YorkAs the Israel-Gaza war grinds on amid a worsening humanitarian crisis, the world’s attention this week was captured by a battle on the campuses of elite US universities. Pro-Palestine student protesters were arrested en masse by New York City police at the prestigious
Here’s What Student ‘Boycott, Divest, and Sanction’ Activists Are Demanding
By Maggie Hicks Katie McTiernan, Anadolu, Getty ImagesA protest Wednesday at the U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor Financially and academically untangling colleges from Israel is not as easy as it looks. Protesters vow they won't let up.
Foreign states targeting sensitive research at UK universities, MI5 warns
Ministers considering more funding to protect important research sites, with China seen as a particular concernMI5 has warned universities that hostile foreign states are targeting sensitive research, as ministers consider measures to bolster protections.Vice-chancellors from 24 leading institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London, were briefed on the threat by the domestic security service’s director general, Ken McCallum, and National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) chief, Felicity Oswald. Continue reading...
At Emory, Protesters Face Gas and Police Force After Setting Up Encampment
By Nell Gluckman The university initially said the demonstrators were “not members of our community.” After evidence appeared to contradict that claim, it walked back its original assertion.
Supporting Student-Athletes
In the dynamic world of higher education, the multi-faceted experience of the student-athlete population in today’s landscape cannot be ignored: academics, athletics, and perspective on critical issues. As a first-generation college graduate and a postgraduate student in higher education and student affairs, I reflect on how the landscape of intercollegiate athletics has changed even in my five years as a collegiate softball player. However, there is one thing that remained
Georgians arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books
Suspects alleged to have posed as academics to access books and replace them with copies, says EuropolEurope live – latest updatesPolice have arrested nine Georgians suspected of running a sophisticated criminal operation stealing valuable antique books – including an original Alexander Pushkin manuscript – from national libraries across Europe.Shelves of 19th-century Russian-language literature had been ransacked over two years across several countries and replaced by fakes, Europol, the EU police
LYDIA SERMONS
Lydia SermonsLydia Sermons has been named vice president and chief communications officer at Howard University. She served as vice president of strategic communications and marketing at Spelman College. Sermons holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Temple University and a master’s in broadcast journalism and public affairs from American University.
Transfer Students Need Support from Both Two and Four Year Institutions
Two new reports and an online dashboard from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, are part of an ambitious effort to tell the story of transfer students. These resources break down how many students are able to successfully transfer from a two-year institution to a four-year institution, with or without an associate degree or certificate, and how many of those transferred students are able to
Police Crackdown on Nationwide Protests
Over the past few weeks, higher education has seen students vehemently express opposition to Israel’s ongoing military operations in Palestine, transforming campuses to protest zones. Protests have been met with police force, including widespread arrests. “Protests can be very effective at getting an issue into national media,” said Dr. Omar Wasow, an assistant professor of political science at University of California Berkeley who studies civil rights-era protests of the 1960s. “Student
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