Rabbi Elie Buechler cautioned the students against returning to campus. The warning came amid a days-long protest that saw more than 100 arrested
by WorldTribune Staff, April 21, 2024 A female student at a Pennsylvania middle school charged teachers and administrators with not stopping, despite her warnings, a boy who identifies as a girl from brutally assaulting a female student. The assault took place at the Pennbrook Middle School cafeteria on Wednesday, when the 13-year-old trans student used […]
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
An Orthodox rabbi associated with Columbia University sent out a message to over 290 Jewish students Sunday morning warning that they should go home "as soon as possible" amid a rise of "extreme antisemitism and anarchy."The message, which was sent out on WhatsApp by Rabbi Elie Buechler, comes a few days after pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with police officers after holding a "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on Columbia's south lawn. Several American colleges have been thrust into the spotlight...
Tulane University issued a warning to faculty and students Friday morning
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...
Senior figures from leading institutions are warned of risks to some of their cutting-edge research.
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 […]
Students at the American University in Cairo and Sydney University have called for a ceasefire and divestment from companies linked to Israel.