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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration on Thursday opened a civil rights investigation into the hiring practices at George Mason University, expanding a national campaign against diversity policies to Virginia's largest public university.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a "nefarious mechanism" to steal technology for the Chinese government.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a "nefarious mechanism" to steal technology for the Chinese government.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a "nefarious mechanism" to steal technology for the Chinese government.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is reshaping a student loan cancellation program into what some fear will become a tool for political retribution, taking aim at organizations that serve immigrants and transgender youth.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is reshaping a student loan cancellation program into what some fear will become a tool for political retribution, taking aim at organizations that serve immigrants and transgender youth.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday modified a trio of school records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and said it would apologize to female athletes "disadvantaged" by her participation on the women's swimming team, part of a resolution of a federal civil rights case.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The University of Pennsylvania says it will update records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and apologize to female athletes "disadvantaged" by Thomas' participation on the women's swimming team, part of a resolution of a federal civil rights case.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the school violated the rights of female athletes.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration concluded after an investigation, threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action.
BOSTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration's efforts to keep Harvard University from hosting international students.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three decades ago, foreign students at Harvard University accounted for just 11% of the total student body. Today, they account for 26%.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is moving to block nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that accounts for a quarter of the student body.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Campus activism has flared as the academic year winds down, with pro-Palestinian demonstrations leading to arrests at several colleges.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The president of Haverford College was berated by Republican lawmakers in a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism Wednesday, with some suggesting the school should lose federal funding because of her refusal to discuss student discipline in the wake of pro-Palestinian protests.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a "historical wrong" and suggested that others dating to the Civil Rights Movement should be reconsidered.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Harvard University is promising to review its academic offerings and admissions policies in response to a pair of internal reports on antisemitism and anti-Arab prejudice at the Ivy League campus commissioned in the aftermath of last spring's pro-Palestinian protests.
On one side is Harvard, the nation's oldest and wealthiest university, with a brand so powerful that its name is synonymous with prestige. On the other side is the Trump administration, determined to go further than any other White House to reshape American higher education.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some Democratic-led states and cities are pushing back on a Trump administration threat to cut education funding over diversity, equity and inclusion programs, creating a standoff that could test how far the White House is willing to go to press its demands on the nation's schools.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration has issued a list of demands Harvard University must meet as a condition for receiving almost $9 billion in grants and contracts, federal money that is being threatened during an investigation into campus antisemitism.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As a condition for receiving federal money, the Trump administration is ordering K-12 schools to certify that they are following federal civil rights laws and eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
WASHIGNTON (AP) -- The Trump administration has halted several dozen federal research grants at Princeton University, the Ivy League school said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration's approach to fight campus antisemitism, with the announcement of a new "comprehensive review" that could jeopardize billions of dollars for the Ivy League college.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is ordering changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that would disqualify workers of nonprofit groups deemed to have engaged in "improper" activities.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is ordering changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that would disqualify workers of nonprofit groups deemed to have engaged in "improper" activities.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Columbia University has become the first target in President Donald Trump'scampaign to cut federal money to colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new federal lawsuit in Maryland is challenging a Trump administration memo giving the nation's schools and universities two weeks to eliminate "race-based" practices of any kind or risk losing their federal money.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration is opening new investigations into allegations of antisemitism at five U.S. universities including Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley, the Education Department announced Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Schools and universities responding to complaints of sexual misconduct must return to policies created during President Donald Trump's first term, with requirements for live hearings and more protections for accused students, according to new guidance issued Friday by the Education Department.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- While Republican states were working to limit school history lessons and ban transgender athletes, President Joe Biden's education chief says he was focused on what matters: putting more social workers in schools, expanding summer school and building a pipeline of new teachers.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Biden administration is canceling federal student loans for another 55,000 workers through an existing program known as Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America's schools of perceived " wokeness " and "left-wing indoctrination."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nebraska votes solidly Republican in statewide elections, but will nonetheless be closely watched in the presidential race on Election Day. The reason? It's one of two states -- Maine is the other -- that doesn't award all of its Electoral College votes to the winner of the statewide popular vote.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As a junior at George Washington University, Ty Lindia meets new students every day. But with the shadow of the Israel-Hamas war hanging over the Washington, D.C., campus, where everyone has a political opinion, each new encounter is fraught.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- On one side of the classroom, students circled teacher Maria Fletcher and practiced vowel sounds. In another corner, children read together from a book. Scattered elsewhere, students sat at laptop computers and got reading help from online tutors.