Police in riot gear cleared an encampment on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston as several dozen students shouted and booed at them from a distance.
A video showing a confrontation between a man and a woman wearing a hijab during a pro-Israel rally at Arizona State University is further highlighting the roiling tensions on college campuses across the US over the Israel-Hamas war. Here are the latest developments:
"It tells me that the parents don't care."
Organizers of the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto say school administration has been "unwilling" to discuss their core demands, after almost a week of protests.On Wednesday, a group of students and faculty members gave a news conference at the site of the protest at King's College Circle, where they laid out their demands once again. They say they want the school to disclose and end investments going to businesses that support the Israeli government and sever ties with Is
A University of Toronto encampment holding hundreds of students calling for the university to disclose ties with Israel, has entered it's seventh day. The protest is drawing both scrutiny and praise from the public and officials.
Xavier University of Louisiana has reversed course and canceled Saturday's planned commencement address by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield after news of her appearance sparked outrage among some students. University President Reynold Verret announced the decision in an email Wednesday to faculty, staff and students. “Everyone’s goal is to have a commencement ceremony that appropriately honors the graduates and their achievements,” Verret wrote.
As the largest and fastest-growing school district in British Columbia, Surrey's boom is straining its schools, pushing it to try unconventional options to accommodate the surge. Clusters of portable classrooms have become a familiar sight. Some schools have rejected in-catchment students for lack of space. This fall, a third of Surrey's high schools will extend the school day, creating an additional learning period and boosting capacity by 15 per cent. "That's going to be a challenge for both s
When temperatures in Cambodia hit a staggering 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in April, Sek Seila, an 11-year-old student studying in the capital Phnom Penh, was promptly sent home from school.
College commencement season is off to a rough start. After a weekend full of student protests, Columbia University, the face of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations, canceled its main graduation ceremony, becoming the second major school to do so this year. Shira Goodman, vice president of advocacy for the Anti-Defamation League, said colleges’ weak responses to the…
Most of the large group of pro-Palestinian protesters who had set up an encampment on the University of Calgary campus agreed to pack up and leave moments before police, with shields and riot gear, were set to begin forcibly removing them.The police line appeared set to begin marching when one of the protesters stepped forward and told the rest of the group that, if they left, none of them would be arrested. After some initial pushback, many of the protesters began breaking down and packing up t
Jewish university students told a parliamentary committee Thursday their universities have failed to protect them from antisemitic incidents on campus since the start of Israel's war on Hamas."The consistent failure of our universities to take action against the hate taking place on our campuses has emboldened anti-Israel activists to become more radical," said Nicole Nashen, a McGill University law student.Nashen said her grandparents were proud of her when she started her studies at McGill, bu
At UCLA, the legacy of the encampment remains an issue of much debate, particularly among Jewish students.
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Faculty at the University of Southern California voted to censure the university’s president and provost Wednesday, citing the leadership’s poor handling of pro-Palestinian student protests and decision to effectively cancel commencement. The USC Academic Senate voted 21-7, with six abstentions, for censuring President Carol Folt and Provost Andrew Guzman. Faculty were specifically critical of leadership’s…
The vote followed a nearly three-hour meeting Wednesday in which USC's faculty members criticized the decisions of President Folt and provost Andrew Guzman.
OTTAWA — Jewish students from major Canadian universities appeared on Parliament Hill today to raise the alarm about a rise in antisemitism on their campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war. They appeared alongside several Liberal MPs, including Anthony Housefather, who helped initiate a parliamentary committee study about antisemitism on campuses scheduled to begin Thursday. Housefather cited concerns from Jewish students and faculty who say they are experiencing a sharp spike of antisemitic behaviou
One Students' Union says people are regularly sleeping in university buildings.
The University of Southern California faculty senate, citing academic freedom and free expression, Wednesday censured president Carol Folt and provost Andrew Guzman for their response to pro-Palestinian protests.
Members of the Edinburgh University Justice for Palestine Society have been on hunger strike throughout much of this week.
L.A. Unified union leaders call Supt. Alberto Carvalho a liar and a coward. Carvalho says harm to students, workers has been minimized in difficult budget times.
Punishing the student journalism adviser is “clearly unlawful,” an attorney said.
