Kirk Carapezza
Managing Editor and Correspondent at GBH News (Boston, MA)
X skeptic. Alternative lawn advocate. I write independent higher ed stories, pick up trash and walk Leo in the park; post Ks w/ @bostonkmen & @_thebase.
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3 weeks ago |
wgbh.org | Kirk Carapezza
June 03, 2025 Jacqueline Rivera, who lives in East Boston, considered going to a four-year college right after high school, but she had two major obstacles. “It was a little bit far away, so I couldn’t really realistically get there,” she said. “And it was way out of my budget.”She enrolled in a nearby community college to become a physician assistant but dropped out after she realized healthcare wasn’t the right fit.
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1 month ago |
wgbh.org | Kirk Carapezza
May 25, 2025 Harvard University has stripped a world-renowned scholar of her tenure status. The university’s top governing board, the Harvard Corporation, decided this month to revoke Francesca Gino’s tenure and end her employment at Harvard Business School. Gino, who was celebrated for her research on honesty and ethical behavior, had faced scathing allegations of academic misconduct and fraud.
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1 month ago |
wgbh.org | Kirk Carapezza
May 16, 2025 The Trump administration is launching an investigation into Harvard’s admissions practices, looking into whether the university is still considering race when deciding which students to admit. The Department of Justice probe comes nearly two years after the Supreme Court decided that the consideration of race in admissions is unconstitutional.
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1 month ago |
wgbh.org | Kirk Carapezza
May 14, 2025 Harvard University is preparing for steep budget cuts and program suspensions as the federal government continues to target the Ivy League school. The Trump administration has now frozen close to $3 billion in federal funding to Harvard, with the latest round of cuts coming alongside stop work orders on some federally funded projects.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Kirk Carapezza
1 hour ago Trump administration cuts another $450 million in grants to Harvard, on top of $2.2 billion already frozen See all topics The Trump administration is cutting another $450 million in federal grants to Harvard University – on top of $2.2 billion already slashed – tightening even further its ideological pressure on America’s oldest and wealthiest university amid a broader battle over control of US college … 6 hours ago HOUSE MINORITY WHIP KATHERINE CLARK: Trump's attack on Harvard is...
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