A federal judge has ordered the release of a Turkish student at Tufts University who is being held in Louisiana after US immigration officials arrested her in Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, testified virtually at a court hearing on Friday, where US District Judge William Sessions said the student met all the conditions needed for release...
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. After a five-year pause, the Trump administration is bringing back financial penalties for the many millions of borrowers who are too far behind on their student loan payments. It’s led to confusion and financial uncertainty. At least 5 million...
A British nursing student studying in the US has been found stabbed to death in an apartment in Houston, Texas, just days before she was due to graduate, say police and her family. Elizabeth Tamilore Odunsi, 23, was discovered on 26 April by officers who had gone to her flat to check on her, Houston...
A Columbia University student and Palestinian activist arrested by US immigration authorities has been released from custody, US media reports. Mohsen Mahdawi, who has permanent US residency or “green card” status, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) when he turned up at an American citizenship interview in Vermont in mid-April. Mr Mahdawi’s...
Something must have happened on the way to the revolution. Earlier this week NBC News revealed that the pro-Hamas activists at Columbia were gearing up for another tent encampment on campus. Last year’s encampment inspired copycat encampments on colleges across the country. It also led to Columbia not being able to hold its main graduation...
The administration says that it is restoring student visa records while it drafts a new policy to allow terminations. The Trump administration is walking back visa record terminations for thousands of students across the U.S. after suffering numerous losses in court and admitting last week that officials do not have the authority to terminate students’...
I almost – ALMOST – didn’t write about this because listening to the whining of these people was so Gott-danged painful, I was near the end of my tether. But then I remembered two things – pain is best shared, and I have y’all. YOU WIN! Actually, though, I think I’m performing some sort of...
Reuters Armed French officers were seen outside the school on Thursday One student has been killed and at least three people were injured in a stabbing at a private school in western France, French media say. The attack took place at Notre-Dame-de-Toutes-Aides school in Nantes on Thursday afternoon, according to reports. The attacker is said...
Getty Images The education secretary has pulled student loan funding from the private Oxford Business College over concerns about admissions practices. Bridget Phillipson said the “management of recruitment and attendance” at Oxford Business College, which is not a university itself but offers courses from some English universities, had “fallen well short”. She said she wanted...
My darling Priscilla-Isaac Jones-Fragnitz: I write with a heavy heart from the front lines of Barker Center, where we plan to make a stand to the last man — er, human being of no particular gender — in this war for Harvard’s independence and federal-funding firehose. The dastardly enemy has us besieged on all fronts...
Getty Images Harvard President Alan Garber has flatly rejected the White House’s sweeping list of demands The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students, after the institution said it would not bow to demands from Donald Trump’s administration. The White House has demanded the oldest university in the US make...
Immigration officials called him in for what was supposedly his final interview to become a U.S. citizen. Immigration officials abducted a Palestinian Columbia University student, Mohsen Mahdawi, in Vermont on Monday, after they summoned him for what was supposed to be his final test to obtain his American citizenship. Mahdawi, a green card holder, received...
Getty Images Mr Mahdawi participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University An organiser of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by immigration officials as he attended an interview as part of his application for US citizenship, his lawyer says. Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder who is due to graduate next month from...
The State Department’s findings came in a memo issued days before DHS abducted Öztürk anyway. The State Department internally found no evidence supporting the Trump administration’s reasoning for abducting and pushing to deport Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, new reporting finds, just days before immigration officials snatched her off the streets and took her...
“Today, the radical critique of the modern world must target and encompass the ‘totality.’ It must inseparably contain its real past, what it effectively is, and the perspectives of its transformation. To tell the whole truth about the current world, and even more so, to formulate the project of its total subversion, we must be...