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The UNC System has turned against diversity, equity & inclusion programs, and affirmative action in admissions is banned. Will either effect HBCUs?

Police crackdowns on nonviolent campus protests have raised questions about student rights and administrators’ biases.

Videos have gone viral of faculty members being taken to the ground, zip-tied, and led away by police. Amid recent crackdowns on pro-Palestinian encampments by campus police and outside law enforcement agencies, a new spectacle went viral online: faculty members being zip-tied and arrested.

The small, private institution in New York will shut down at the end of the semester. It’s the latest blow to the Empire State’s higher education landscape. After 156 years, Wells College in New York will close next month. In announcing the closure Monday, college officials echoed the decision made by other struggling institutions across the nation, citing insufficient revenues for supporting “long-term financial stability” at Wells.

Shortly after pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up an encampment on Deering Meadow Thursday morning, Northwestern enacted an interim addendum to its demonstration policy. In an email, University President Michael Schill told the NU community the addendum’s goal was to “balance the right to peacefully demonstrate with our goal to protect our community,” adding “temporary changes” to...

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Columbia’s university senate planned to vote Friday to express their displeasure with how the school’s president has handled the protests.

A new wave of campus protests has hit institutions from California to Massachusetts, many emboldened by arrests at Columbia University. Since Columbia University shut down an encampment last week where pro-Palestinian protesters were demonstrating for divestment from companies with ties to Israel, students on other campuses have set up their own encampments, making similar demands.

With the federal financial aid process in disorder following a revamp late last year, schools are already way behind in formulating financial aid offers to students, and many students have

Name: Gianni Quattrocchi Major/Degree/College: BA, political science, College of Liberal Arts Hometown: Bristol Borough, Pa. The vibrant dialogue of engaged students echoing through corridors during a campus tour caught Gianni Quattrocchi’s attention, ultimately leading him to choose Temple University over other notable competitors like Penn State, Northeastern, Drexel and