The issue has pervaded campus discourse since the start of the current pro-Palestinian protest movement over a year ago, with some harshly condemning phrases like âFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be freeâ as a call to eradicate Israel and its people, while others argue itâs simply a cry for peace and Palestinian self-determination.
Craig Lindwarm, senior vice president for governmental affairs at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, added that itâs âoverly simplisticâ to view the sole function of state funding as keeping tuition prices low.
Drexel officials told the Inquirer in a statementthat the reduction in head count is part of the universityâs âplan for resolving an approximate 10 [percent] imbalance in its operating budget in order to ensure resilience amid financial headwinds facing the higher-education sector.â
Occidental College has settled with two nonprofit organizations focused on combating antisemitism over a federal Office for Civil Rights complaint that the campus was a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students in the weeks and months following Hamasâs Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
To her supporters, she is a capable corporate executive who helped lead WWE from a burgeoning regional business when her husband, Vince McMahon, purchased it from his father in 1982 for an estimated $1 million, to a global phenomenon that monopolized and reshaped the wrestling industry, which was valued at $9.3 billion last year.
âThese sorts of activities allow institutions to gain experience working in India and build their local reputation, which will be helpful should they decide to move forward with establishing a full-fledged branch campus,â said Lane.
Auditors told the Board of Trustees last week that the historically Black land-grant university would have a $46 million deficit by the end of the year without financial help, NewsChannel5 reported.
âThereâs just a lot of sub-baccalaureate and sub-associate degree credentials out thereâ of different lengths and costs, called by a variety of names and offered by different kinds of providers, making it âhard to decipher any sort of outcomes or similarities,â she said.
Working the controls that way is fairly intuitive, and you can do things such as zoom in on specific people in a large panel when the automatic functions of the camera would not know which presenter was the most important one to focus on at the time.
Then-President Donald Trump greets Linda McMahon, head of the Small Business Administration at the time, during an event celebrating Women's History Month, at the White House on March 29, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Mark Wilson via Getty Images
When these tools are paired with advanced machine learning algorithms and behavioral analytics, âuniversities can continuously monitor network traffic for anomalies, isolate compromised systems in real time and automatically apply patches to vulnerable endpoints.â
âThe cost of expanding Pell Grant eligibilityâabout $1,800 per student in this studyâshould be considered against the evidence on the economic benefits of short and very short-term programs.â
The University of San Diego, a private, Catholic institution in California, also received the largest pledge in its history last weekend: $75 million from Darlene Marcos Shiley, a philanthropist and chair emerita of USDâs Board of Trustees.
The Tuesday court order follows another issued in July requiring state officials to take a temporary step back from rolling out the law in preparation for its Jan. 1, 2025, implementation date.
As experts on graduate career counseling, weâve been offering advice on the tandem job search â applying for both faculty and industry openings â because itâs increasingly the norm.
The Modern Language Associationâs refusal to allow a boycott, divest, and sanctions resolution to be debated by its members has caused a stir within the group â and demonstrated the chilling influence of anti-BDS laws nationwide.
From a scathing new report lambasting colleges for their response to campus protests related to the Israel-Hamas war to one institution eliminating its military base locations, here are the top-line figures from some of our biggest stories of the week.
