Yale University administrators urged a student group to adopt a policy of “broad neutrality” after clashes over Palestinian advocacy. Some say the vague directive could chill speech.
Wesleyan University’s campus was abuzz last week after student protesters, demanding divestment from the “U.S.–Israeli Empire,” occupied an administrative building and refused to leave until the police arrived and threatened arrest. This was a...
Johns Hopkins University recently became one of the latest campuses to embrace institutional neutrality. However, there is more work ahead to implement this, according to a higher education reform group.
As the anti-Israel student protests that roiled college campuses in the spring have started up again this fall, scores of American universities are hoping to temper the political climate by embracing a policy known...
Colleges and universities are getting out of the business of making political statements.
If a university has a strict institutional neutrality policy, then demands from aggressive and sometimes violent anti-Israel campus pro-Palestinian protesters...
Scrutiny of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education has been increasing for months, with more opponents finding what...
Harvard’s year has been one for the history books. It ranked last in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s annual college free speech...
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