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John C. Calhoun Gets Heave-Ho At Yale
The South Carolina pre-Civil War advocate of Southern autonomy and slavery has been honored for about 85 years with the name…
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Harvard seeks dismissal of lawsuit over sex assault case
CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University is refusing to settle with a female graduate who accused the Ivy League institution of failing to follow federal…
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Yale students demand end to ‘hostile’ English Lit courses
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The latest social-justice crusade bubbling up among "oppressed" undergraduates at prestigious Yale University comes in the…
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Ex-Yale hoops star sues school over expulsion by Title IX tribunal
NEW HAVEN – The former captain of the Yale University men's basketball team has sued the Ivy League school for defamation…
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Yale professors who stood up for free speech step down
Two married Yale professors who were recently caught up in a fierce debate over free speech have announced they are resigning from…
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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…
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Another New England university considers symbolic fossil fuel divestment
A Dartmouth College presidential committee report suggests divesting fossil fuels would be relatively easy since only a sliver of the school'…
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Dartmouth students demand end to coddling, focus on learning
HANOVER, N.H. – Alleging that Dartmouth College administrators have increasingly "assumed the role of paternalistic babysitters," students at the Ivy…
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Harvard upstarts fall short in Board of Overseers vote
CAMBRIDGE – Five candidates for Harvard University's Board of Overseers who campaigned on a platform calling for free tuition and making…
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Asian groups target Ivy League for racial discrimination
A coalition of over 100 Asian-American groups is filing an administrative complaint with the United States Department of Education's…
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Harvard slaps down Final Clubs with leadership ban
CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University imposed harsh penalties on off-campus social groups Friday, targeting all-male Final Clubs – some that are centuries old…
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Yale dumps ‘master’ title, preserves ‘triggering’ Calhoun name
NEW HAVEN — Yale University will keep the name of a residential college named after a 19th century alumnus and statesman, best known…
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Harvard Final Club fights back
CAMBRIDGE – Harvard College's Final Clubs, the exclusive social institutions unaffiliated with the Ivy League university but targeted by administrators over…
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Harvard Final Club chief backs off ‘all wrong’ comment
BOSTON – A Harvard University graduate who is the president of a popular local brewery apologized Thursday for remarks he said "came…
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Dartmouth sorority buckles to protests, cans Derby party
HANOVER, N.H. – A Dartmouth College sorority, hit by protests that a May 2015 Kentucky Derby party was racist and a symbol…
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Princeton exhibit promises to show ‘all’ about Woodrow Wilson
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Kristen Coke and Jameil Brown enrolled at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs at…
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Yale should follow GE to Boston
Maybe Yale should move. That's the reaction of at least one Yale graduate, the Cato Institute's Walter Olson,…
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Yale may have prevented accuser from recanting claim that got hoops star expelled
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A female Yale University student whose rape accusation against Jack Montague, a senior and the captain of the men&…
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Harvard undergrads reshape feminism debate
CAMBRIDGE – Earlier this month, more than 100 Harvard University students, both male and female, declared themselves to be feminists at the seventh…
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Yale braces for lawsuit from student expelled by Title IX tribunal
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale University's Title IX-based policies for handling sexual assault allegations may come under legal scrutiny if…
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Brown University students overwhelmed by class, activism
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Students at Brown University are claiming that the combination of classwork and social activism is causing them mental anguish…
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Women’s colleges seek to rebrand
SWEET BRIAR, Virginia – Last spring, Sweet Briar College, a 115-year-old women's college in rural Virginia, made headlines when…
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Wellesley College names first black president
WELLESLEY – Wellesley College named its first black leader Thursday, announcing Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Paula Johnson as the elite institution'…
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Yale campus yields 50 signatures to repeal First Amendment, satirist says
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A satirist went to Yale University recently to stage what may be a revealing spoof on campus, posing as…
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Dartmouth, Vermont town have century-long tuition deal
Written by Wilson Ring WHEELOCK, Vt. (AP) — For more than a century Dartmouth College has been making good on a promise to…
