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University holds Holocaust remembrance event despite Jewish protests

Inside Higher Ed

Image: James Madison University in Virginia held an event Thursday to mark the Holocaust—despite all the Jewish members of the planning committee resigning. And faculty members say this year’s event was going to feature the provost, Heather Coltman, playing piano, something the last event’s committee rejected.

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Stanford apologizes after students heckle judge

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Stanford University’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and the dean of its law school, Jenny Martinez, issued a joint apology Saturday to a federal appeals court judge whose speech Thursday was repeatedly heckled by students in the audience. Duncan was a target because he has a history of anti-LGBT activism.

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Claudine Gay to become first Black president of Harvard

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Harvard University announced its 30th president Thursday, drawing from within to hire Claudine Gay, the first Black president in the institution’s nearly 400-year history. Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S.

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Connecticut College president resigns under pressure

Inside Higher Ed

While Connecticut College ultimately canceled the event, the move came too late, prompting King to step down. College employees and students alike have criticized Bergeron in the wake of the incident, arguing that she could have prevented King’s resignation by heeding his warning and canceling the event sooner.

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Why these school leaders are clashing with students’ free speech judgment

University Business

Brown, in the twilight of an 18-year career at Boston University, wrote a searing article scolding his student body for the way it received spring commencement speaker and alumnus David Zaslav during the ceremony. Discovery, faced chants, signs and protestors picketing in front of the entrance to the event.

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Fundraiser Fiasco at Connecticut College

Inside Higher Ed

The venue has a history of racial discrimination and antisemitism ; it famously barred both Black crooner Sammy Davis Jr. Rodmon King, the college’s former dean of institutional equity and inclusion (IEI), resigned in protest over the fundraiser on Tuesday after Bergeron decided to proceed with the event despite his concerns.

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

Inside Higher Ed

Limerick,” Chris Whitney, the board’s vice chair and brand commissioner for the state of Colorado’s Department of Agriculture, wrote to Glen Krutz, CU Boulder’s dean of arts and sciences. This does not affect Limerick’s tenured position as professor of history or her ability to conduct research."