The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a University of Minnesota international graduate student earlier this week, according to the institution, calling it a “deeply concerning situation.” The university said that an international graduate student was arrested by ICE officials at an off-campus residence Thursday. The student was enrolled in the school’s Twin Cities…
The United States Naval Academy in Anapolis, Md., recently joined a growing list of schools that will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission, court documents made public Friday show. The move follows an executive order issued by President Trump earlier this year that called for the shuttering of federal…
Hundreds of fired government employees filed into the Department of Education headquarters in Washington on Friday in order to collect their personal belongings and say their goodbyes. Former workers were given 30 minutes to do this. Afterward, they were walked out of the building’s doors. Earlier this month, nearly half of the department’s staff was…
Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Columbia University’s interim president, resigned Friday amid the school’s tussle with the Trump administration over federal funding and criticism around its response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Following the announcement, the school’s board appointed Claire Shipman to serve as acting president. Armstrong, the second Columbia leader to step down in less than…
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong has resigned, returning to her post running the New York school’s medical center. Armstrong’s return to her former job as CEO of Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center comes days after Columbia agreed to a host of policy changes demanded by the Trump administration as a…
Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to schools Friday warning of increased enforcement of parental rights. The letter comes following investigations conducted by the Department of Education against California and Maine over policies the federal agency alleges keep records of students’ gender identity away from their parents, allegedly violating the Family…
The Department of Education is investigating Maine over reported concerns that school districts are using privacy laws to keep information about students away from their parents, alleging the state’s Department of Education is violating the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA). The federal department is taking issue with district policies that allegedly allow schools to…
More than 30 Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the latest high-profile arrest and detention of a foreign-born college student who had voiced support for the pro-Palestinian movement. In a Thursday letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and…
Harvard Medical School researcher Kseniia Petrova was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after she failed to disclose frog embryos she brought into the country. Petrova’s attorney is fighting for her release from a Louisiana detention center after Customs and Border Protection stopped her at Boston Logan International Airport on Feb. 16 when she…
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said President Trump is “dead serious” about wanting her to dismantle the department and put herself out of a job in the administration. “When he asked me to serve as the secretary of Education I knew exactly what his mandate was, which is to close the Department of Education,” McMahon said…
