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Cambridge

Harvard professors join chorus against club leadership ban

CAMBRIDGE – The drumbeat questioning the decision to punish Harvard College students who join single-sex social organizations is growing louder as a growing number of faculty and alumni and even a former university president have opposed the move. This week, 12 Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors fired off a denunciation

Democrats

Harvard faculty tilts decidedly left in political giving

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University faculty who made political donations at the federal level overwhelmingly contributed to Democrats or liberal organizations, a review of data from the Federal Election Commission shows. As an institution, Harvard has long had a reputation for leaning left. The campaign finance data provide a limited but revealing

amherst

UMass critics decry veer to left in required courses

AMHERST – The University of Massachusetts has turned a corner and begun to more explicitly prescribe political attitudes and views that students – and faculty – at its flagship Amherst campus must not only study but embrace, critics say. The school, in recent guidelines sent to teachers on constructing new courses or updating

senate

GMU Senate has ‘deep concern’ over naming of law school after Scalia

(CNSNews.com) — George Mason University's (GMU) Faculty Senate passed a resolution last week expressing its "deep concern" with naming the university's law school after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The resolution, which passed April 27th on a 21-to-13 vote, claimed

Massachusetts legislature

Lexington recoils from bid to ban certain gun types

LEXINGTON — A liberal activist and prominent Harvard University scholar wants to ban a lengthy list of semi-automatic firearms in a town famous for its Battle Green and its role in launching the American Revolution. Hundreds of people showed up at a Board of Selectmen meeting Tuesday night, in which resident

umass

UMass agrees to pay faculty, staff retroactive wages

Written by Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE — University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan has committed the university to funding $10.9 million in retroactive pay denied to faculty and staff by the previous president, expressing confidence that the state will help foot the bill.