Isabelle Taft

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Isabelle Taft

As university leaders face political pressure around the country, one president in Indiana has acquiesced to many conservative plans. The sweeping changes to Indiana's public universities came suddenly this spring, with little time for debate. Republicans passed a new law that would require university boards to measure the productivity of tenured faculty. Faculty were downgraded to "advisory only" roles in university decision-making. Degree programs that graduated too few students would be closed.

3 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Isabelle Taft

One September evening in 2004, a Texas rancher noticed three buzzards circling near the road at the edge of his property. When he approached, he saw the body of an infant lying in the brush beside a barbed wire fence. Wayne Springer, then an investigator with the Medina County Sheriff’s Department, was among the officers called to the scene. The infant was a newborn girl with the umbilical cord still attached. Springer knocked on doors up and down the road, looking for witnesses.

4 days ago | nytimes.com | Isabelle Taft

Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went unsolved for years. Women now may face lengthy prison sentences for decades-old chapters of their pasts. Wayne Springer, a former investigator for Medina County, at the site in Hondo, Texas, where a deceased newborn was found. Credit...

1 week ago | afr.com | Laurel Rosenhall |Isabelle Taft |Steven Rich |Stephanie Saul

Laurel Rosenhall, Isabelle Taft, Steven Rich and Stephanie SaulMay 25, 2025 – 9.26am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? New York | If it happened to Harvard University, could it happen anywhere?

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Laurel Rosenhall |Isabelle Taft |Steven Rich |Stephanie Saul

“This is a grave moment,” Sally Kornbluth, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in a message to her campus. More than 5,000 miles away, Wendy Hensel, president of the University of Hawaii, said that it was “reverberating across higher education.”President Donald Trump has unnerved universities this year by launching investigations, freezing grants, demanding changes in campus practices and attempting to deport international students.