Police have cracked down on another Massachusetts college where students have been urging officials to fully divest from Israel amid the Israel-Hamas war. Signs cover barriers that have been installed around MIT’s encampment space on Kresge Oval. (Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald) Signs cover barriers that have been installed around MIT’s encampment space on Kresge Oval. (Libby … Read more
U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss is demanding university officials to take down pro-Palestinian encampments as they’re creating a “hostile learning environment” for Jewish and Israeli students, but he says that can happen without more federal laws. The Massachusetts Congressman on Thursday visited Harvard University, where an encampment popped up on April 24, and spoke with Jewish … Read more
Interior Minister Moshe Arbel of Shas is unlike many other Israeli politicians. For one thing, he doesn’t particularly want to be a politician, and doesn’t have higher political aspirations. If it were up to him, he would be far from the public eye, working on his doctorate in law or spending time with his … Read more
Harvard University plans to reinstate the SAT or ACT as requirements for admission, following some of its Ivy League peers in returning to standardized test scores after a pause that was prompted by the pandemic. HT Image The new policy will apply to students seeking admission in fall 2025, Harvard said in a statement Thursday, … Read more
The Ivy League is a group of eight private institutions in the United States known for their academic excellence, reputation, and longstanding history. The Ivy League consists of eight schools: Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Brown University, Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell University. Study Abroad: How a student must successfully … Read more
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who led a campaign criticizing Harvard University as it has been rocked by turmoil over practices related to antisemitism, plagiarism and financial management, on Friday failed in a bid to get four candidates on the ballot for a governing board of the Ivy League school. One other candidate backed by Facebook founder Mark … Read more
Mayor Michelle Wu will not be replacing former Harvard President Claudine Gay, she stated on WCVB’s On the Record segment aired Sunday, speaking to the heavily-besieged president’s resignation from her alma mater. “I have absolutely no plans to leave this amazing job that I have,” Wu said, laughing intermittently following a question about her interest … Read more
Business Insider’s top executive and parent company said Sunday they were satisfied with the fairness and accuracy of stories that made plagiarism accusations against a former MIT professor who is married to a prominent critic of former Harvard President Claudine Gay. “We stand by Business Insider and its newsroom,” said a spokesman for Axel Springer, … Read more
After weathering calls for her ouster over the school’s handling of campus antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war and her widely derided testimony in a congressional hearing last week, it was decided that Claudine Gay will keep her job as president of Harvard University. Harvard University President Claudine Gay testifies before a House Education and The … Read more
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman called out the New York Times for publishing a “false and misleading” story about why he’s been outspoken about on-campus antisemitism at Harvard. The Times article published Tuesday, headlined “Bill Ackman’s Campaign Against Harvard Followed Years of Resentment,” reported that Ackman’s campaign to oust university President Claudine Gay has … Read more
