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.
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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.
Georgetown University announced it will divest from fossil fuels in the next five to ten years after pressure from climate change activists.
University of California-Berkeley was under fire for publishing a social media post about the coronavirus, which said that it was “normal” to have a xenophobic reaction to coronavirus news.
George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist of progressive causes, announced he is creating a higher education network on a global scale and that he is investing $1 billion in his new network “Open Society University Network.”
A liberal professor from New York City-based The New School told her fellow MSNBC panelists that the Trump impeachment trial made the Constitution a victim.
Google recently launched a second IT certificate, which circumvents four-year colleges and could save potential students thousands of dollars.
California passed a bill that would expand student loan eligibility to Dreamers, or DACA recipients, but it was not clear how much it would cost the state.
A progressive online website published a video of George Washington University students who strongly disagreed with President Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism. One of the students made a statement which apparently denied that the Holocaust happened.
Outrage ensued at San Diego State University when a suggested speakers’ list included a Nation of Islam leader, after which, the university removed the leader’s name from the list.
Hillsdale College and the University of Missouri agreed to disagree on a donor’s bequest and settled a lawsuit surrounding the hiring of free-market economic professors.