Protestors at both universities are taking part in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which calls for boycotts against companies that support Israel, as well as divestment and sanctions campaigns, to urge communities and universities to do the same.
Rabbi Elie Buechler cautioned the students against returning to campus. The warning came amid a days-long protest that saw more than 100 arrested
Several universities in Israel have called out the increasing antisemitism happening on university and college campuses in the United States, offering "support" to faculty and students.
Video shows a University of Chicago student being confronted as she was walking down a sidewalk, and she spoke with ABC7 about the ordeal. The school issued a safety alert Wednesday after multiple students were robbed.
The University of Iowa pays poverty-level wages to graduate workers despite incredible fundraising and an endowment of over $3 billion. The Board of Regents has increased tuition yet again and is desperately seeking funds from new private partnerships in order to “maintain academic excellence”. How can one school be so wealthy and yet so anxious
On Saturday 20th April, prospective students and their families will get a taste of the University’s courses, a chance to explore the riverside campus, accommodation as well as hear from the Students’ Union from 9.00am to 2.30pm. Many will also be keen to discover the unique advantages of the universities personalised teaching model with small class sizes as well as finding out about the dedicated student support team. Henry Gyamf, a commuter student said, “Studying at Buckingham has given me...
Shafaqna English- Demonstrations by pro-Palestinian students at several universities in the United States continue to protest the Gaza war and the White House’s policies in this regard. According to Shafaqna, Indiana University announced today: Police in that state arrested 33 people for preventing protesters from collecting their tents. Students
Three people died and one other was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 85 on Friday afternoon.
La Paz, Apr 26 (Prensa Latina) The electoral reality that Venezuela is living today was exposed by the ambassador of that country in Bolivia, César Trómpiz, in a master conference before students and professors of the Universidad Unión Bolivariana. The post Bolivian university students know about the real Venezuelan elections first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators are calling on universities to sell investments in companies they say are complicit in war in GazaAs protests against Israel’s offensive in Gaza are spreading throughout American campuses, one demand made by students across schools keeps coming up: divestment from Israel.Universities rely on endowments to fund things like research and scholarships, and those endowments are typically invested in companies and alternative asset classes, such as private equity and...
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, apologises for shared housekeeping photos of student accommodation.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia each wrote to the […]