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Protests and encampments in support of Palestinians in Gaza have sprung up at colleges and universities across the country, and the police have intervened on several campuses.

There have been student protests and arrests, as well as controversy over the school’s decision to cancel the speech of its valedictorian.

Nemat Shafik, the university’s leader, met privately with faculty members, who could soon decide to admonish her. Columbia’s board, though, made its support clear.

I do not believe that the Columbia demonstrators are driven by antisemitism, but their actions have gone way too far.

Pro-Palestinian protesters, many of whom are Jewish, prepared Seder dinners at college protest encampments, even as other Jewish students sought community in more traditional settings.

After reports of harassment by demonstrators, some Jewish students said they felt unsafe. Others said they felt safe, while condemning antisemitism.

The university cited security concerns at the graduation. But the student, who is Muslim, said the school was “succumbing to a campaign of hate meant to silence my voice.”

Today’s parents are suffering from anxiety about their children’s anxiety, and it’s not easy to persuade them that all is OK.

Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it.

What does it say about a cause that won’t weed out its worst members or stamp out its worst ideas?

He broke barriers as the first Black physicist in nearly every role. But his identity made him reach for dreams beyond his career as a scientist.

The Education Department was supposed to make applying for federal financial aid easier. Instead, it got worse.

A highly politicized Supreme Court makes it far more difficult to teach students about the fundamentals of the American legal system.

A campaign to make the country an explicitly Hindu nation has had a chilling effect on left-leaning and secular institutions like Jawaharlal Nehru University.

As the will to engage in D.E.I. programs is waning, it can be tempting to make superficial fixes to achieve the optics of inclusion. But inclusion is how everyone can thrive.

Government moves to limit what people can say are an escalation after years of policing speech in other ways