The legal status for some students has been restored but litigation on their behalf remains active because of uncertainty about what the government might do next.
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| A Bloomington-based immigration attorney said his office has been flooded with calls from international students worried they will have to abandon their studies and leave the country. |
Titled “Raise Your Hand, Not Your Voice: Freedom of Speech in Higher Education,” the symposium will be hosted by the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis.
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Under the new law, faculty members at public universities will be required to teach scholarly works “from a variety of political or ideological frameworks” within the faculty member’s purview of instruction.
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Federal officials had accused Virginia’s president of failing to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices that President Donald Trump has labeled as unlawful discrimination.
Brown is the latest university to turn down the proposal, which White House officials said would bring “multiple positive benefits” including “substantial and meaningful federal grants.”
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita sent a six-page memo to all Indiana school superintendents and university administrators Monday night saying that schools are “wrong” for not disciplining or firing teachers who make comments about Charlie Kirk’s death.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.
A campaign among the right to punish those disparaging Charlie Kirk has cut across industries, with some conservatives calling for the firing of private sector employees, journalists and others they judge as promoting violence. But the stakes are especially high for colleges.
Several faculty and university senates have approved resolutions asking their leaders to sign a NATO-like agreement to pool resources in case President Donald Trump’s administration targets one of its members.
It’s an early signal that federal research funding could begin flowing to Harvard after months of deadlock with the White House, but it’s yet to be seen if money will arrive.
In a shift upending decades of precedent, the Education Department said Wednesday it now believes it’s unconstitutional to award federal grants using eligibility requirements based on racial or ethnic enrollment levels.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston sided with the Ivy League school, ruling the cuts amounted to illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of White House demands for changes to its governance and policies.
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education will hold a special meeting Friday to vote on Secretary of Education Katie Jenner as the state’s next commissioner for higher education. If approved, she would lead both the Indiana Department of Education and the higher education commission.
A federal judge on Thursday struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s schools and universities.
The ACLU argues the law is a clear violation of the free speech protections of the First Amendment and the guarantee of due process in the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Justice Department has been suing states to end tuition breaks for students without legal residency, starting with Texas in June. In Indiana, such students are generally ineligible for in-state tuition.
The federal government is accusing the school of racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action.
Under the deal, Brown University will pay $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations.
Lowery announced his resignation in a message sent Tuesday to university and government officials. His departure will take effect Oct. 10.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of several Indiana professors over the state’s intellectual diversity law, claiming the case lacks jurisdiction.
The Ivy League school will pay a $200 million settlement over three years. It will also pay $21 million to resolve alleged civil rights violations against Jewish employees that occurred following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.
More than 81,000 Indiana high school students took the test in 2024-25.
The case is before U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, who also is presiding over lawsuits brought by Harvard against the administration’s efforts to keep it from hosting international students.