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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...