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Conservative advocates have filed a growing number of legal challenges, encouraged by the Supreme Court’s June ruling ending affirmative action in college admissions

Christopher Rufo, credited with helping oust school’s first Black president, touted critic associated with ‘scientific racists’

Business Insider ran reports on Neri Oxman, wife of billionaire investor who helped oust Harvard head over alleged plagiarism

'Being the home of case studies, perhaps Harvard is not used to being their subject,' writes Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

Harvard is on fire. The zenith of the American meritocracy and the dream of climbers everywhere started to burn after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel when a marching minority of students and groups of vocal faculty took up the Palestinian cause, confounding many of its students, their parents…

A new campaign will mobilize support for federal legislation, including the Freedom to Vote Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and other measures, the head of the National Urban League writes.

Harvard University faces scrutiny as Congress demands documents in an investigation into alleged institutional failures regarding anti-Semitism and potenti...

Quite a few high-profile careers in higher education have been upended as of late amid questions of academic integrity. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who had served as president of Stanford University for seven years, stepped down in 2023 after it was determined that he had co-authored several academic papers that contained manipulated…

Billionaire vows to tackle ‘problems with how our media operates’ after Neri Oxman accused of plagiarism in PhD thesis