Striking graduate student workers forced the University of California-Santa Cruz to close classes for at least a day.
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Striking graduate student workers forced the University of California-Santa Cruz to close classes for at least a day.
The ongoing coronavirus will affect U.S. colleges and universities student enrollment and their budgets, according to a survey of U.S. higher education institutions.
Tulane University removed its Victory Bell after administrators discovered the bell was used on a plantation to direct slaves.
The University of California-Santa Cruz fired some of its graduate students after they refused to post grades, which was a part of a labor strike to receive higher cost-of-living adjustments in their stipends.
A Georgetown University official told the student newspaper that she felt illegal immigrants students are “freedom fighters.”
The University of Kansas announced an art contest meant for students to vent their frustrations about having a Chick-fil-A location on their campus.
A professor at the University of Oklahoma was barred from teaching a journalism course after comparing the n-word to the phrase “Ok boomer.”
Some students at the University of Louisville pressured administrators to bar a fellow student from passing out allegedly anti-LGBTQ pamphlets to their LGBTQ Studies class.
Student protesters disrupted an Iowa Board of Regents meeting, demanding for tuition freezes and increased university funding, which forced board members to adjourn early due to the disruptive protests.
Harvard University faculty in the arts and sciences departments voted in favor of divesting university resources from fossil fuel companies, which the administration said it preferred not to use endowments for social change.