The House Just Voted to Bankrupt Graduate Students The House Just Voted to Bankrupt Graduate Students:- Republicans in the House of Representatives have just passed a tax bill that would devastate graduate research in the United States. Hidden in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a repeal of Section […]
Colleges and Universities
After Charlottesville Violence, Colleges Brace for More Clashes After Charlottesville Violence, Colleges Brace for More Clashes:- After a planned speech in February by the right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos attracted demonstrators who started fires and shattered windows, the University of California, Berkeley realized it had a major hole in its event […]
Officials Decline to Call Fatal Stabbing of Black Student a Hate Crime Officials Decline to Call Fatal Stabbing of Black Student a Hate Crime:- The police found the white man, a student at the University of Maryland, at around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, sitting on a campus bench a few feet […]
Trump Walks Back Threat to Defund Black Colleges When President Trump signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill on Friday, he zeroed in on a tiny sliver of it, suggesting that he might disregard $20 million in funding for loan subsidies and other aid to historically black universities. Two nights later, […]
Mixed Picture for a For-Profit College Mixed Picture for a For-Profit College : Berkeley College, whose Manhattan campus has a men’s basketball team with a 50-game winning streak, is one of four for-profit schools placed under investigation in 2015 by New York City’s Department of Consumer Affairs over concerns about […]
