The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.| www.nytimes.com
Those who raise their voices—whether for equality, democracy or reproductive freedom—are facing escalating threats. Online harassment spills into real-world violence, antiabortion attacks continue, and even professors, journalists and entertainers are being punished for speaking too boldly. Powerful institutions and individuals are working to chill movements for justice. But history reminds us that these attacks are not signs of our weakness—they are signs of our progress. The louder th...| Ms. Magazine
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.| www.nytimes.com
Answers to your questions about one of the biggest challenges facing students.| www.nytimes.com
Education systems shape careers and societies. Here’s what living 20 years overseas taught me about Brazil, China, Germany, and creativity in learning.| { design@tive } information design
Doing so might help them survive an era of school closures, but at what cost to the mission they profess?| Christianity Today
Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.| www.nytimes.com
A letter sent to Harvard on Friday by the Trump administration demanded that the university make a series of policy changes in order to continue to receive federal funding.| www.nytimes.com
The backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign.| www.nytimes.com
“If we just focus on this generation’s political style,” says political theorist Wendy Brown, “we ignore their rage at the world they’ve inherited.”| www.nytimes.com
The Justice Department went to the U.S. Supreme Court this week in defense of the Biden administration’s new Title IX sex discrimination rule that includes transgender protections—arguing strongly that the| Ms. Magazine
This year marks the 52nd anniversary of Title IX, a landmark civil rights law that has transformed the landscape of U.S. education. The Biden-Harris administration's new Title IX regulations, set| Ms. Magazine
Student journalists at campuses across the country are getting a pressure-filled, and dangerous, lesson in their chosen profession during a chaotic springtime of protests.| AP News
An agreement between anti-war protesters and Northwestern University has largely ended demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on the suburban Chicago campus.| AP News
The passing of Daniel P. Jordan, the long-time head of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and runs Monticello, is a good opportunity to reflect on the changes that have come to Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop home and plantation, as well as the field of public history at large. Jane Kamensky, the current president of the foundation, called Jordan “the most consequential president on the Mountaintop since Jefferson himself.” Jordan received his PhD in history from the Unive...| Encyclopedia Virginia