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Local universities continue to look at how to improve safety following a shooting at UNLV last year when a gunman killed three professors and wounded another."D
The University announced that students who participated in the encampment and a May 20 attempt to take over an engineering building would face suspension. Stanford will allow the pro-Palestine encampment in White Plaza to remain. Provost Jenny Martinez also announced a 5% increase in undergraduate tuition and 7% increase in room and board.
The ongoing “climate” and “culture” crisis at Gillette College has persisted for over two years. The administration’s focus on “changing the culture” is, at best, insufficient and, at worst, a
"We write as members of the Law School faculty concerning the Faculty Senate’s call, in its May 7 resolution, for 'the University to request that all charges against the demonstrators be dropped' in connection with the May 1 police action on our campus."
On May 6, OU Faculty Senate discussed adopting an Academic Fresh Start policy, allowing past students to re-enroll without the burden of a poor academic record. If adopted, this policy may give past and underrepresented students a new chance at pursuing higher education.