
Mike Damiano
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Hilary Burns
In its first legal victory against the Trump administration, Harvard persuaded a federal judge on Friday to block the government’s latest salvo against the school: banning the university from enrolling foreign students. US District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs in Boston said Harvard had shown it could suffer “immediate and irreparable injury” if its approximately 7,000 foreign students were forced to leave the country or transfer to another university.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Brooke Hauser
A task force on antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias urged the school to expand academic offerings related to antisemitism and Jewish history and to train students to more constructively debate and disagree with each other. The task force on anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian bias asked Harvard to provide legal and technical support to students who have been outed online as pro-Palestinian and faced harassment.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Hilary Burns
CAMBRIDGE — In an interview with the Globe, Harvard president Alan Garber cast doubt on the motives behind the White House’s campaign against his university, which is being carried out with the stated intent of combating antisemitism. ”Attacking our research enterprise in the name of attacking antisemitism really gives rise to skepticism about what the goal is here,” he said.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Hilary Burns |Mike Damiano
But many Jewish students at Harvard, including those concerned about antisemitism on elite campuses, say this political narrative distorts their experiences. Interviews with more than a dozen Jewish students and recent graduates, and half a dozen Harvard alumni, faculty, and staff, found that many felt the climate has shifted significantly since the height of the Gaza war protests a year ago.
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1 month ago |
bostonglobe.com | Mike Damiano |Hilary Burns |Diti Kohli |Jenna Reyes
The Trump administration and Harvard are locked in an extraordinary showdown over campus oversight and federal funding, and we know there are questions about what’s happened so far, what exactly it means, and what might come next. Our team of higher education reporters is here to help.
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