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As Harvard and Trump Head to Court, the Government Piles on the Pressure

President Trump suggested a deal was coming, but officials are still demanding more from Harvard, including extensive information about international students, staff payroll and protests.

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Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration will meet for a significant court hearing on Monday.

As Harvard and Trump Head to Court, the Government Piles on the Pressure

President Trump suggested a deal was coming, but officials are still demanding more from Harvard, including extensive information about international students, staff payroll and protests.

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Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration will meet for a significant court hearing on Monday.

Marine General to Lead Naval Academy, a First

Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte, an aviator who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, will relieve Vice Adm. Yvette M. Davids, the academy’s first female superintendent.

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Underclass midshipmen during the Oath of Office ceremony at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., last month.

Man Who Sent ‘I Raped You’ Message Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault

Ian Cleary, 32, attacked a fellow Gettysburg College student in her dorm room more than a decade ago. A series of Facebook messages helped lead to his arrest.

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Ian Clearly leaving a court hearing in Gettysburg, Pa., in May. He pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in 2013, when they were both students at Gettysburg College.

5 Charged in U.C. Berkeley Professor’s Killing in Greece, Including His Ex-Wife

Przemyslaw Jeziorski, who taught quantitative marketing at the Haas School of Business, was shot several times on July 4 outside Athens, the authorities said.

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An image from video showing police officers arresting five people over the killing of a University of California, Berkeley, professor in a suburb of Athens.

Fired D.E.I. Administrator Rachel Dawson Sues the University of Michigan

In her lawsuit, Rachel Dawson denies making antisemitic remarks and accuses the school of racial bias in its investigation and decision-making.

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The University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor was the scene of strife over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2024.

Here’s the latest.

Leaders from Georgetown, the City University of New York and the University of California, Berkeley, are the latest to testify about accusations of campus antisemitism.

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The hearing will take place before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

University Leaders Reject Republican Attacks on Campus Antisemitism

Leaders from Georgetown, the City University of New York and the University of California, Berkeley, said they are working to protect Jewish students but also free speech on their campuses.

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The hearing will take place before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

What to Know About Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department

Cuts have hit most of the department’s main functions, which include investigating civil rights complaints, providing financial aid, researching what works in education, testing students and disbursing federal funding.

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The Department of Education in Washington, D.C.

Inside the Conservative Campaign That Took Down a University President

The Jefferson Council had called for eliminating D.E.I., without much success. But a new lawyer with ties to the group took on the cause for the Trump administration.

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For years, the Jefferson Council had criticized the university’s president, James E. Ryan, for his support of D.E.I.

Chinese University Expels Woman for ‘Improper Contact’ With a Foreigner

The university published the student’s full name and said her behavior had “damaged national dignity.” The move prompted an online debate and accusations of sexism.

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Danylo Teslenko, who goes by the nickname Zeus, at a gaming event in Poland in 2019. Mr. Teslenko had shared videos of himself with a Chinese woman that led to her expulsion from university.

Inside the Conservative Campaign That Took Down the U.Va. President

The Jefferson Council had called for eliminating D.E.I., without much success. But a new lawyer with ties to the group took on the cause for the Trump administration.

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For years, the Jefferson Council had criticized the university’s president, James E. Ryan, for his support of D.E.I.

Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural, White Americans, Too

The N.I.H. has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump.

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Lucas Dillard at Johns Hopkins.

Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists

A senior Homeland Security official testified in court on Wednesday that his department had relied in part on an anonymously compiled list to identify foreign academics for investigation.

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Peter Hatch, the assistant director of the Homeland Security Investigations department within ICE, testified that a team he oversaw had been directed to pore over the thousands of individuals profiled by the Canary Mission, an anonymous group that has been accused of doxxing individuals engaged in anti-Israeli activism.

Trump Administration Renews Attacks On Harvard With Negotiations Uncertain

The Department of Homeland Security issued administrative subpoenas seeking data about the university’s international students, while two federal agencies challenged Harvard’s accreditation.

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The Department of Homeland Security issued administrative subpoenas seeking data about Harvard University’s international students.

Caltech Settles Case Accusing It of Misleading Students

A student who paid thousands for a tech boot camp said it was “a Caltech program in name only.”

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The California Institute of Technology campus in Pasadena.

Trial Over Free Speech on Campus, and Trump’s Student Crackdown, Begins

The case challenges the Trump administration’s targeting of noncitizen student activists for arrest and deportation on First Amendment grounds.

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Demonstrators outside Columbia University demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and former Columbia student, in March.

How Harvard’s Ties to China Helped Make It a White House Target

Harvard turned to international donors, including China, as one way to help save it from financial troubles. That money is dwindling, but Republicans are questioning the relationship.

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Harvard cultivated ties with China as a way to partly help bolster its finances.

What Trump’s Big Bill Means for Colleges, Student Loans and Grants

Social work majors might struggle to get student loans. University endowments would be more heavily taxed. But students in some training programs would become eligible for Pell Grants.

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The campus of Princeton University in New Jersey. The bill would expand the tax on university endowments.

America’s Trump-Fueled Brain Drain Benefits Canada

The University of Toronto has attracted several U.S. professors amid turmoil between American higher-education institutions and the Trump administration.

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Brian Rathbun and Nina Srinivasan Rathbun are international relations professors at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Before moving to Toronto last year, they worked at the University of Southern California.
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