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Greater share of US losing faith in health guidance, poll says - Roll Call

Both parties say they’d like the CDC to prioritize preventing chronic disease and protecting against new viruses with pandemic potential.

Roll Call · Apr 29, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg says college isn’t preparing students for today’s job market—this and the debt burden will create a ‘reckoning’ for higher education

Mark Zuckerberg, who notoriously dropped out of Harvard, said college may prove more beneficial from a social standpoint as opposed to career.

Fortune · Apr 29, 2025

New York Times Symposium on "A Road Map of Trump's Lawless Presidency"

I was one of 35 legal scholars who took part.

Reason · Apr 28, 2025

They staged protests for Palestine. The consequences have been life-changing

Legal aid group says most students contacting them are Palestinian, Arab Muslim and other students of color

The Guardian - US · Apr 26, 2025

Can America Get Out of the Gerontocracy Trap?

If voters so overwhelmingly prefer younger candidates, why are they underrepresented in politics?

Reason · Apr 26, 2025

Harvard University Explores $1 Billion Private Equity Stake Sale Amid Financial Pressures

Harvard's endowment is in talks to sell $1 billion in private equity stakes, navigating market challenges and Trump administration threats to federal funding.

International Business Times · Apr 25, 2025

Trump administration opens investigation on UC Berkeley over foreign funding

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley, centered on foreign funding, making it the latest university to be targeted by the federal government

The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2025

The Guardian view on Trump v universities: essential institutions must defend themselves

Editorial: Harvard is leading the pushback because it can afford to fight. Others are realising that they can’t afford not to

The Guardian - UK · Apr 25, 2025

When Scientific Inquiry Meets the Big Chill

From Harvard’s president facing down political pressure to a science foundation scrubbing controversy from its website, the battle for free speech and open inquiry plays out where ideas are meant to thrive.

Capital & Main · Apr 25, 2025

Trump’s aggressive actions against free speech speak a lot louder than his words defending it

Harvard University took the extraordinary step of suing the Trump administration on April 21, 2025, claiming that the pressure campaign mounted on the school by the president and his Cabinet to force viewpoint diversity on campus violated the Constitution’s guarantees of free speech.

The Conversation · Apr 24, 2025