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Columbia Grad Students Get a Reality Check
The powerful United Auto Workers won’t allow a strike on campus if the grad students’ union clings to its obsession with politics.
Jonas Du
Why Grad Students at Columbia May Go on Strike
‘If you look at what the union is doing now, you can see there’s no sane people left,’ says one student about its political fixations.
Jonas Du
I’m a Harvard Student. It’s Too Easy to Get an A.
Most of my classmates arrive here with genuine ambition. We are then dropped into a grading system that quietly trains us to treat intellectual life…
Isaac Mansell
Columbia’s Modern Arab Studies Chair Contenders Have One Thing in Common: Hating Israel
The university says it is committed to ‘balanced’ curricula on the Middle East. Their top candidates tell a different story.
Maya Sulkin
Why I Let Anti-Israel Protesters Interrupt My Talk
I went to Haverford College to talk about history. I ended up teaching my interrupters a lesson I hope they don’t forget.
Haviv Rettig Gur
The Department of Education Isn’t Going Anywhere
A year after Trump tried to abolish the agency, Republicans are dragging their feet and increasing its budget.
Tanner Nau
In a Top Math Contest, the Cheaters Are Winning
Only a handful of students got perfect scores on the AMC 12. Then AI came along.
Deepa Javeri
No More Gifted Students in Mamdani’s New York City
Ending the gifted and talented program in public schools is the opposite of what parents want and kids need.
Maud Maron
What Qatar Bought from Carnegie Mellon for $1 Billion
A Jewish student’s antisemitism lawsuit is raising hard questions about the strings attached to the Persian Gulf state’s money.
Frannie Block
What Happened to Columbia’s Antisemitism Monitor?
Insiders say the university failed to cooperate with its own government-mandated watchdog.
Maya Sulkin
How a Cornell Professor Drove an Israeli Student out of His Class
‘I don’t have to give both sides,’ the professor said, unleashing a clash between academic freedom and discrimination.
Johanna Berkman
Brown University Deserved Better
Five days of institutional paralysis after a mass shooting turned the campus into a breeding ground for fear and falsehoods.
Jillian Lederman
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