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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

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Scalia School of Law

George Mason University School of Law has just been renamed the Antonin Scalia School of Law in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Accompanying the name change was a receipt of a $30 million gift: $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation and $20 million from an

Bernie Sanders

Vermont college once run by Sanders’ wife to close

A college once run by Sen. Bernie Sanders' wife Jane has announced it's closing in two weeks, thanks to a crushing debt burden it took on during her presidency.

Massachusetts

Outside candidates look to crash Harvard Overseers race

CAMBRIDGE — Three out of five members of the slate of candidates running for seats on the Harvard's second most powerful governing board on a platform of free tuition and greater transparency in admissions are adding another issue to their platform: freedom of association. Led by conservative businessman Ron

Massachusetts

‘Safe spaces’?: Not for guys in our feminized college environments

Throughout history, there have been men. If this thought fills you with fear and revulsion, I have just the place for you: Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. It's a mid-tier college, and that's part of the good news: You no longer have to fork over hefty

Education

Are all black students falling behind?

A recent report by The Education Trust, a nonprofit working on educational justice, reveals that while there has been an improvement in graduation rates at four-year public institutions for all students, the improvement is smaller for black students.

rape crisis

WATCH: How accurate are campus sexual assault statistics?

Anyone who pays attention to the news has heard that American universities are in the midst of a campus "rape crisis." But are they? Should parents fear for their children's safety when dropping them off at school? In her Factual Feminist vlog, AEI scholar Christina Hoff

Massachusetts

Harvard sex assault committee takes aim at all-male Final Clubs

CAMBRIDGE — A recently released report by a Harvard University sexual assault task force takes aim at the school's elite all-male Final Clubs, the fraternity-like social organizations that operate off-campus, blaming them for a climate of sexual assault on campus. In pointing the finger at the Final Clubs, the