(Andri Tambunan/The New York Times) California Governor Gavin Newsom has never been known to temper his words, but his latest salvo against America’s most prestigious universities, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania, has triggered a fierce debate over whether the Ivy League and its peers are quietly sacrificing principle for survival.In an era…
Barnard College has joined a growing group of institutions embedding artificial intelligence directly into student life. Beginning August 1, students can access Google’s Gemini and NotebookLM through their Barnard email accounts, following a July 29 announcement. The rollout is part of an expanded agreement with Google and was framed as a step toward giving every…
The promise of a fair shot at higher education has long been a cornerstone of the American academic ideal. Yet a new lawsuit contends that some of America’s most revered universities have been quietly undermining that principle, not through admissions quotas or test score thresholds, but by using the very mechanism designed to give students…
Image caption: www.pacific..edu Across the United States, colleges and universities are grappling with a deepening funding crisis. Shrinking federal and state budgets, rising operational costs, and the expiration of pandemic-era relief funds have left many institutions slashing programs, cutting staff, and tightening financial aid. Elite institutions like Harvard face potential losses nearing $1 billion annually…
For all its chest-thumping about “protecting meritocracy,” the Trump administration has quietly engineered something far more consequential than a policy shift: A looming federal admissions surveillance regime—and it has bought the keys to elite university gates with hard cash. Columbia and Brown, two of America’s most storied universities, have just paid their way out of…
Columbia University and Brown University are set to disclose detailed admissions data, including standardised test scores, grade-point averages, and racial demographics of applicants, as part of recent settlements with the Trump administration. The move, which departs from typical university-government data sharing practices, is being viewed as a significant development in the national conversation around race-conscious…
Ohio State University President Ted Carter said that Ivy League schools are currently in “survival mode” following Columbia University’s $221 million settlement with the Trump administration. (Getty Images) Ohio State University President Ted Carter said that Ivy League schools are currently in “survival mode” following Columbia University’s $221 million settlement with the Trump administration over…
Harvard faces greater pressure than Columbia in ongoing US funding negotiations The US President Donald Trump is pressing Harvard University to agree to a larger financial settlement than the $221 million deal struck with Columbia University, according to sources familiar with the ongoing negotiations, as reported by The Harvard Crimson. The talks concern the restoration…
After Columbia settlement, Trump administration plans to push penalties on other institutions. The Trump administration is reshaping how US universities are held accountable for campus antisemitism, introducing a new enforcement strategy that combines financial penalties with sweeping institutional reforms. At the center of this shift is a $200 million settlement with Columbia University, now being…
Columbia University (File Photo) After nearly five decades in the classroom, Marianne Hirsch, daughter of Holocaust survivors and a renowned genocide scholar at Columbia University, is questioning whether she can continue teaching. The catalyst? Columbia’s recent adoption of a controversial definition of antisemitism, one that critics say could criminalize nuanced discussion of Israel and its…