FAFSA delays, campus protests, Supreme Court decisions and more combined to create a perfect storm of issues plaguing this year's college admissions cycle.
One female Georgia college student is dead after an armed intruder entered the campus and shot her near a bus stop, leaving other students shaken.
Colleges across California are suspending student protesters, a move that's evicted some from housing, barred others from final exams, and left scores navigating a high-stakes disciplinary process more commonly reserved for students accused of toting a gun to campus or raping a classmate in their dorm room. Some of those facing punishment, including 40 students at UC San Diego, were slapped with "interim suspension" notices following mass arrests at protest encampments. But many others who...
There was pushing and shoving as students clashed with police outside a parking garage on the MIT campus.
On Tuesday night, UMass Chancellor Javier Reyes sent campus police to disperse and dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment that was set up by student protesters that day in response to Israeli troops seizing Gaza's vital Rafah crossing.
A student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia was shot and killed Saturday by an "armed intruder" on campus, officials confirmed. "Kennesaw State officials can confirm that a female student was fatally shot on campus," the school said in an alert on its website. "A suspect has been detained." The school added: "There is no threat to the campus community. Kennesaw State University Police are working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and we will provide updated information once it...
Pro-Palestinian students were attempting to take over a university hall to protest school’s refusal to negotiate in ‘good faith’More than a dozen pro-Palestinian activists, including six students at the University of Pennsylvania, were arrested after attempting to occupy a hall on the university campus late Friday.The protesters were arrested around 9pm after trying to take over Fisher-Bennett Hall but had been met with a response from university and Philadelphia police, according to reports....
University of California, Berkley Chancellor Carol Christ released a letter to the college's encampment, offering compliments to the group for maintaining a "professional, organized, and productive approach during a very difficult time." After the chancellor's letter was released, campus occupiers took over a school building in order to "escalate for Gaza." Protesters took over a building to 'avenge' Al Shifa hospital and to show their disapproval of disbanding the official encampment over...
We asked Jewish students at US universities what they think about pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Our panel respondsI was in California for Passover when the encampment first came up. I was excited because I want to see an end to what Human Rights Watch calls a system of apartheid, which refers to the fact that there are over 65 laws discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel, roads in the West Bank are segregated, Israelis have civil law while Palestinians have military law, water...
(The Center Square) — Speaker of the House of Delegates Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, announced the creation of a select committee on campus safety following the pro-Palestinian protests at several Virginia universities that ended via police intervention. Scott selected 12 delegates – seven Democrats and five Republicans, reflecting the greater partisan composition of the House – to learn about Virginia universities’ policies for protecting the free speech of their students, ensuring...
A day after protests on the UMass campus resulted in more than 100 arrests, protests continued Wednesday.
Hawaii island police on Tuesday arrested an 18-year-old student at Konawaena High School in South Kona after a disturbance on campus.