Since then, Stefanik has led the charge among Republicans, pushing for the resignation of the university leaders. The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard have already resigned. And last week, Columbia's president became the latest to testify before Congress. Johnson's visit to...
Milliken was one of several chancellors who GOP state senators called to the Texas Capitol to testify on how campuses are complying with the law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott last year. Texas is amongabout one-third of states across the nation that have taken...
Meanwhile, the presidents and their universities continue to face backlash from those who believe their responses were too weak and their policies in need of further scrutiny, including through an investigation led by the House committee that called them to testify, setting off the new ...
" Sloan asked. "I was operating from the standpoint of safety, that's the first operating principle. Trying to protect the safety of the students, the integrity of the physical plant as we've seen other campuses really fall apart in that space," Holloway said. Holloway pointed...
During a heated line of questioning at the December hearing, Stefanik asked the university leaders to answer whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate each university’s code of conduct. Liz Magill, then president of Penn, and Claudine Gay, then ...
Today, faculty privilege prejudice over power by asking students of color (over whose lives they hold immense power) to sit on diversity committees and task forces to testify to the prejudice, harassment and discrimination in their education. The committees are often undemocratic—they do not take...
Perhaps they feel that responding would simply call attention to the criticisms and give them a greater audience. Perhaps they believe that the remedies critics propose are so far-fetched that no one will take them seriously. Whatever the reason, leaders of these institutions may be making ...
From roads to runways, the rising temperatures are more than just uncomfortable; it's also impacting our infrastructure, so what's being done to handle the heat? Aug 5, 2024 Universities, including Rutgers, go to Capitol Hill to testify about antisemitism on campuses Rutgers President Jona...
Interestingly, the more the CJI edges towards his retirement, the more he finds it imperative to testify for a clean character certificate from the public. He recently said,“I have always granted bail from A to Z, from Arnab to Zubair.”The statement sadly comes at a time when the moveme...
to societal problems. Universities also instill society-oriented values among students (Bustamante et al.,2022). Business schools play a special role in fulfilling what society requires from academia in terms of social and environmental expectations, as they produce future business leaders, who in ...