Today on TAP: And what Joe Biden had better learn
Today on TAP: They are making a fraught situation worse by letting the far right define antisemitism and the necessary campus responses.
Middlebury College president Laurie Patton will leave her post next year to helm the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a prestigious honorary society and research center based in Cambridge, Mass., that was founded during the American Revolution. Patton has led Middlebury since 2015 and is the only woman to serve as president in its 224-year history. The private liberal arts college announced her forthcoming departure on Thursday. She will continue in her role through the end of 2024....
“What needs to happen, at least at the beginning, is these university presidents need to get control of the situation," the Republican leader said.
It was the first meeting of a Tibetan elected leader with the head of a state of a major Western democratic nation.
College leaders say they will reduce student and faculty positions and restructure operations amid a financial shortfall.
Americans are watching in disgust as chaos spreads at college campuses across our country. Jewish students and faculty fear for their safety as antisemitism goes unchecked, and the rule of law is abandoned by morally bankrupt university leaders taking their lead from President Joe Biden. Enough is enough. It is time to restore law, order, and moral decency to Columbia and universities across this country. Speaker Johnson and House Republicans announced our plans to hold our higher education...
(The Center Square) – For “mealy-mouthed, spineless college leaders,” actions will have consequences, the North Carolina congresswoman leading a key U.S. House of Representatives committee said Tuesday amid ongoing college campus disruptions. The war between Israel and Hamas has led to significant demonstrations or encampments on at least four dozen campuses nationwide, a national observer […]
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on college presidents to remove anti-Israel protest encampments immediately from their campuses.
A monumental moment for a Springfield-based non-profit and a local community college.
Students at Columbia occupying a building to protest Israel’s war in Gaza say they will not leave until the university divests its money from Israel and grants them amnesty.
The student activist discusses the risks that Iran, China, and Russia, and their Western sympathisers, pose to liberal democracies.