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We need more people like Jessica Tisch choosing public service
December 1, 2024 | 6:14amIt may be premature to guess how well Jessica Tisch will do as NYPD commissioner, but it’s not too soon to applaud her willingness to serve — and lament how...
Pete Buttigieg's alma mater Harvard 'to make a killing' off $335M in funds from infrastructure bill — despite $53B endowment
November 27, 2024 | 4:48pmTransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's alma mater Harvard University stands to reap major benefits from a Boston highway mega-project that his department plans to pump $335 million into, despite the institution with...
Market forces are coming for Harvard, Columbia and other toxically woke universities
November 23, 2024 | 7:25amA reckoning is under way for the Ivies and other elite universities, as top students look elsewhere and alumni donations drop because these schools have abandoned their missions and their...
Harvard cut language condemning Oct. 7 attack as 'terror,' reference to hostages from statement on massacre, House GOP report shows
October 31, 2024 | 2:56pmHarvard University President Claudine Gay and other administrators intentionally cut language condemning Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 massacre of more than 1,200 civilians as "violence" and references to their Israeli hostages from an...
Over half of Harvard professors are too afraid to discuss controversial subjects with students – what's become of this bastion of free speech?
October 22, 2024 | 3:50pmHarvard professors are biting their tongues and dodging political issues out of fear of losing their jobs, being ‘cancelled’ or attracting heat online.
Harvard donations plunge 15% as alumni cut ties over weak response to campus antisemitism
October 17, 2024 | 4:24pmHarvard University was shrouded in controversy after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel.
Harvard president says fundraising down in wake of anti-Israel turmoil: 'Disappointing'
October 13, 2024 | 5:04pmHarvard President Alan Garber is lamenting the university’s poor fundraising numbers as the school continues to grapple with the fallout of a rocky year filled with campus turmoil and accusations...
Harvard, other top universities colluded to inflate tuition for students of divorced parents, suit claims
October 10, 2024 | 4:35pmHaving both parents fill out the CSS Profile allowed the schools to artificially inflate the sum that the family could afford to pay, it was alleged.
Skirting court’s race-quota ban, NY’s deceptive ‘abortion’ law and other commentary
October 1, 2024 | 7:50pmUniversities “are either breaking the law,” or they misled the Supreme Court when “they declared race-neutral methods insufficient to achieve their diversity goals.”
Harvard's endowment among Ivy League's worst-performing funds after years of overpaying managers: report
September 30, 2024 | 2:50pmCornell, the Ithaca, NY-based school, is the only Ivy League university that has reported a lower 20-year annualized return than Harvard.
UFC fighter teaches Harvard University Jewish students how to fight off antisemitism: 'We need strong Jews'
September 18, 2024 | 5:35pm“[I] teach people to stand strong, to show confidence, to be proud of who they are, to never be ashamed of who they are and where they came from,” the 32-year-old...
Harvard, Columbia rank last in free speech nonprofit's scorecard: 'Abysmal'
September 10, 2024 | 4:59pmFor the second year in a row, Harvard University's "abysmal" free speech climate earned it the lowest ranking among 251 colleges and universities scored by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression...
Elite colleges fail the free-speech test as students reject dissent
September 9, 2024 | 6:01pmIf college students are seen sporting riot gear on campus this fall, no one should blame them.
Why no one wants to be a college president: 'You could not pay me enough'
September 5, 2024 | 2:26pm"Student protests, those are just the cherry on top of the crap sandwich that you're dealing with as president," said one educator who says he has turned down recruiters.
Beware these 2 common, ultra-processed foods that can raise the risk of heart disease: Harvard study
September 3, 2024 | 5:05pmUPFs — which represent 57% of the US adult diet — typically contain excess calories, added sugars, sodium and unhealthy fats.
Most of the world isn't getting enough of these nutrients: 'alarming' research
August 29, 2024 | 6:30pmWe're getting an F for vitamin intake.
Red-Green Alliance will wreak anti-Jewish havoc — first at the Dem convention then on campuses
August 15, 2024 | 6:15pmIt looks like the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week will be hit with aggressive and violent protests by groups that hate Israel and hate America.
Want to prevent diabetes? Stop eating so much of this one food, Harvard experts say
August 13, 2024 | 5:00amResearchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health examined the iron intake of nearly 207,000 health professionals over 36 years.
Lightning sparked all of life on Earth, say Harvard scientists: 'One of the great unanswered questions'
August 8, 2024 | 5:00pmThe scientific community has been electrified by this new theory.
Ex-Harvard women's hockey coach accused in 'Naked Skate' hazing allegations sues school
July 23, 2024 | 11:45pmFormer Harvard’s women’s hockey coach, Katey Stone, filed a sex discrimination suit on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts.