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Jason Arday, Claudine Gay, and the line between inclusion and bias in universities

August 8, 2026 admin

After Jason Arday was appointed a professor at Cambridge in 2023, two academics alleged plagiarism in one of his papers. | Photo Credit: AP The political scientist Claudine Gay became Harvard University’s dean of social science in 2018 and, five years later, its first Black president and only the second woman in the university’s 387-year…

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News Analysis | Jason Arday, Claudine Gay and the line between inclusion and bias in varsities

August 7, 2026 admin

After Jason Arday was appointed a professor at Cambridge in 2023, two academics flagged alleged plagiarism in one of his papers. | Photo Credit: AP The political scientist Claudine Gay became Harvard University’s dean of social science in 2018 and, five years later, its first Black president and only the second woman in the university’s…

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U.S. files new lawsuit against Harvard seeking documents on admissions process

February 13, 2026 admin

A pedestrian casts a shadow on a Harvard University sign. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Trump administration filed a ‌new lawsuit on Friday (February 13, 2026) against Harvard University, accusing ⁠it of failing to comply with a federal investigation, and seeking documents ‌related to its admissions process, according to ‌a filing in a federal…

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Harvard University Faces Off With Student Protesters As MIT Clears Camps

May 11, 2024 admin

Harvard University again threatened suspensions for pro-Palestinian protesters if they don’t leave a campus encampment, escalating tensions in an impasse that’s left the school as one of the few elite colleges that hasn’t forcibly removed demonstrators. The Ivy League university has so far resisted calling in the police to clear the encampment, a move that…

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After mass arrests at Columbia University, pro-Palestinian protests sweep U.S. college campuses

April 23, 2024 admin

Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on April 22 as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas. More than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped…

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Human Skin Used To Bind 19th Century Book Removed By Harvard Library

March 29, 2024 admin

New York: Prestigious Harvard University said Wednesday it had removed human skin from the binding of a book held for over 90 years at one of its libraries. A copy of the 19th-century book “Des Destinées de l’Ame” — or Destinies of the Soul, a meditation on life after death — was found in 2014…

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