By: Zach Kessel – nationalreview.com – May 14, 2024 Harvard University will begin reinstating student protesters who have been “placed on involuntary leaves of absence” and enter discussions about the school’s endowment as part of an agreement between university administrators and anti-Israel encampment organizers, Harvard’s interim president announced in a letter on Tuesday. “Now that the area is being cleared...

By: Ben Sasse – wsj.com – May 3, 2024 Higher education isn’t daycare. Here are the rules we follow on free speech and public protests. Parents are rightly furious at the asinine entitlement of these activists and the embarrassing timidity of many college administrators. One parent put it bluntly: “Why the hell should anybody spend their money to send their...

By: Stanley Kurtz – nationalreview.com – May 7, 2024 Students stage a walk out from Hillsborough High School to protest after Florida education officials voted to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades, in Tampa, Fla., April 21, 2023 When public schools abandon political restraint and impose ideological partisanship on students, it results...

By: Jess Bravin and Melissa Korn – wsj.com – May 8, 2024 More than a dozen Trump appointees have signed a letter critical of the school’s response to student protests and academic-integrity issues. In a letter this week to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, 13 jurists led by U.S. Circuit Judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch said the New York...

At some universities around America, students have traded studying for finals for raucous anti-Israel protests. It’s vital that we pray amid the upheaval and public displays of hate. Consider College students around America have destroyed property, forcibly occupied their campuses for weeks at a time, and physically blocked other students (such as Jewish students or those who express support for...

Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 2, 2024 A website reveals the planning and strategy behind the current college mayhem. The recent anti-Israel protests are often portrayed as a spontaneous uprising of student indignation against the Gaza war. But we’re learning that behind the young idealists is an organized movement of leftists who want to spread disorder and...

By: Zach Kessel – nationalreview.com – May 1, 2024 After Northwestern University president Michael Schill announced a set of concessions to encampment organizers Monday that included pledging to implement full-ride scholarships for Palestinian students and faculty positions for Palestinian academics, several organizations have called for Schill’s resignation. ——————– In a joint statement published Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Brandeis...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – April 30, 2024 For readers of a certain age, today’s protests at Columbia and other campuses echo 1968 and opposition to the Vietnam war. The kids even took over the same building at Columbia, Hamilton Hall. But the mass-protest method has become the political default for progressives when they lose the policy debate...

By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – April 28, 2024 The American news media are here once again to tell you that you aren’t hearing what you’re hearing and seeing what you’re seeing. Sure, you may see a bunch of pro-Hamas activists on American campuses, wearing keffiyehs and frothing at the mouth for a “worldwide intifada.” And, sure, the demonstrations enjoy endorsements from Hamas and...