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STANFORD, CA,. May 12, 2025 – More than ten Stanford students and faculty launched an open-ended hunger strike in White Plaza on Monday, May 12, demanding the University sever ties with Israel and defense contractors. The action began with a…

SAN DIEGO, CA., May 7, 2025 – About 180 non-tenure-track lecturers in the University of San Diego’s College of Arts and Sciences walked out May 7-8 after talks for a first union contract stalled. Represented by SEIU Local 721, they…

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 2025 — The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote this week on legislation that would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from awarding funds to American universities that host Confucius Institutes or maintain…

SACREMENTO, CA., May 1, 2025 Hundreds of University of California health-care, research and technical employees, represented by University Professional & Technical Employees (UPTE), walked off the job and marched through downtown Sacramento on May 1, protesting UC’s system-wide hiring freeze…

CHICAGO, IL., April 24, 2025, public institutions within the Big Ten Conference announced a unified pact to coordinate legal and policy responses to federal directives perceived as encroachments on academic freedom. Backed by eight of the fourteen universities—including Michigan State…

WASHINGTON, DC., April 23, 2025 — Declaring that America’s “gatekeepers of $100 billion in federal student aid” have drifted from their mission, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to overhaul the college-accreditation system.…

News Release by The American Association of Colleges and Universities, April 22, 2025 As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.…

CAMBRIDGE, MA., April 22, 2025 — In an unprecedented clash over academic freedom and institutional autonomy, Harvard University has refused to implement a series of policy changes demanded by the Trump administration, prompting the federal government to suspend more than…

BETHESDA, MD., April 21, 2025 —In a decisive move to bolster a new take on civil-rights enforcement, the National Institutes of Health on April 21, 2025 issued Notice NOT-OD-25-090, applying a new term and condition to all new, renewal, supplement,…