With the start of the new academic term now just weeks away, there's at least one controversy that is certain to roil American college campuses again this fall: anti-Israel activism and anti-Semitism on campus.
On the heels of a 2015-2016 school year in which campus activists sought to convince public university systems such as the University of Massachusetts to divest from Israel, signs have popped up over the summer months that anti-Semitism linked to anti-Israel activism is on the rise.
BOSTON – U.S. News & World Report this week ranked five New England universities among the top 20 in the nation, and ranked seven of the region's smaller colleges among the top 20 American liberal arts schools.
Although Princeton University (in New Jersey) claimed the top spot on the list of national universities for the sixth year in a row, Harvard (in Massachusetts) and Yale (in Connecticut) placed second and third, respectively. Yale shares third-place honors this year with the University of Chicago. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took seventh place this year. Dartmouth College (in New Hampshire) ranked 11th and Brown University (in Rhode Island) came in 14th.
