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A monthlong fast by Yale University graduate students advocating for a union ended Monday with mixed success: Protesters attracted plenty of national and even international attention, but the university is no closer to taking a seat at the collective-bargaining table.

Middlebury College disciplined 67 students for their roles in a disruptive protest of an event that featured Charles Murray, a controversial political scientist, the Vermont college said in a statement on Tuesday. Separately, the Middlebury Police Department said it did not have sufficient evidence to charge anyone in connection with a scuffle that occurred after the March 2 event and resulted in the injury of a political-science professor, Allison Stanger.

Blackburn College is initiating a new program to welcome transfer students with free tuition.  Students can now “test-drive” the college with free tuition their first semester to see how the school provides a unique educational setting.

Wheeling Jesuit University has been purchased by the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston to assure the future of the only Catholic university in West Virginia.  Earlier this year, WJU’s board of trustees appealed to the diocese to take action to help secure its long-term future and lower its operating costs. Specifically, the university was challenged by its long-term debt, and determined that its annual payments were more than it could sustain, according to a statement released Tuesday by the university.

To close a budget deficit, Warren Wilson College announced Tuesday that it is cutting positions and laying off seven full-time employees.  The college is cutting a total of 20 full-time jobs, but 13 of those will be eliminated through attrition. The college also plans to cut eight to 10 part-time positions, according to Warren Wilson President Steven L. Solnick.