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A new wave of campus protests has hit institutions from California to Massachusetts, many emboldened by arrests at Columbia University.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
While seven of the nine universities originally invited to join the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” have formally rejected the agreement, Valley Forge Military College wants to sign on to the proposal, as first reported by Fox News.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Columbia University handed down sanction decisions for student protesters who occupied Hamilton Hall in April of last year, the university announced in a statement Thursday.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The Trump administration announced Friday that a federal task force will visit 10 university campuses to investigate antisemitic incidents that have been reported since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks set off a wave of college protests against Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The department says fewer than 10 employers will be affected a year, but advocates fear the rule could set “a troubling precedent.”| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Minouche Shafik denounced antisemitism more forcefully than past Ivy League presidents in Wednesday's hearing, but Republicans who questioned her still aren’t satisfied. And some faculty members are alarmed.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Complaining about professors from China, Europe and “supposed Palestine,” the Republican governor called for his state’s public universities to end the use of the visa program. A union leader called his comments a “xenophobic and nativist diatribe.”| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The challenge is far greater if we pay attention to college-readiness data.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Multiple programs had their grants terminated for saying they hoped to enroll roughly equal numbers of male and female students, leaving high schoolers without college-access resources at the start of the admissions cycle.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The Education Department warned 60 colleges and universities that they could face “potential enforcement actions” if they don’t comply with federal civil rights law that protects students from discrimination based on race or nationality, which includes antisemitism.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs