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Students walk past the "Great Dome" atop Building 10 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Mass, April 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
October 11, 2025, 10:09 am
MIT president rejects Trump’s ‘priority’ funding offer in exchange for policy changes
Sally Kornbluth, who is Jewish, is first university leader to reject Trump’s offer; US’s academic leadership ‘depends on independent thinking,’ she says in letter to administration
By Grace Gilson
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally near Columbia University in New York on November 15, 2023. (Bryan R. Smith / AFP)
June 5, 2025, 10:34 am
US says Columbia University discriminated against Jews, should lose accreditation
Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon says New York school violated civil rights law through ‘deliberate indifference’ to harassment of Jewish students during Gaza war protests
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A student protester stands in front of the statue of John Harvard, the first major benefactor of Harvard College, draped in the Palestinian flag, at an encampment of students protesting against the war in Gaza, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
April 1, 2025, 6:19 am
Trump admin reviews $9 billion in Harvard funding amid campus antisemitism crackdown
School president acknowledges antisemitism problem, but says it’s being addressed and warns that cut would ‘halt life-saving research, imperil key scientific research and innovation’
By Reuters
A student protester parades a Palestinian flag outside the entrance to Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University, in New York, April 30, 2024. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
March 24, 2025, 8:32 am
US education chief says Columbia U. could restore funding after changes promised
Linda McMahon says interim university president assured her she wants to stamp out ‘discrimination of any kind,’ address ‘systemic issues’ related to campus antisemitism
By Agencies
Linda McMahon, US President Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of education, testifies during her Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on February 13, 2025, in Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)
February 14, 2025, 6:46 am
Trump’s education secretary pick vows to fight antisemitism, but offers few specifics
Asked about campus antisemitism amid anti-Israel demonstrations, Linda McMahon says protesting is protected speech but ‘activities that are actually endangering students’ are not
By Andrew Lapin
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