Harvard agreed to settle two lawsuits brought against it by Jewish students that alleged the university ignored “severe and pervasive anti-Semitism on campus.”
As the situation on Columbia’s campus deteriorated earlier this year, the university’s then-president consulted with powerful politicians about the bad optics of the protests.
The American Association of University Professors gave its blessing to mandatory “diversity statements” in hiring — as long as the faculty votes for them first.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released its investigations into ethnic discrimination complaints filed over the Israeli-Palestinian campus protests.
Belief-based student groups won an important victory last week in a federal appeals court, which restored the ability of many such groups to meet on public campuses and in public schools in the many western states.