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The Washington Post

USC Buys Home for a New Campus in Washington

USC Buys Home for a New Campus in Washington

March 16, 2023

The University of Southern California is enlarging its operations in Washington with the acquisition of a 60,000-square-foot building near Dupont Circle that will be home to a new D.C. campus. The $49.4 million purchase of the property at 1771 N St. NW, announced Wednesday, enables the private university in Los Angeles to establish an eastern hub for teaching, research, lobbying, recruiting, alumni networking and community outreach. The deal underscores that higher education institutions based elsewhere often find it desirable to establish a prominent Washington address.

The University of Southern California is enlarging its operations in Washington with the acquisition of a 60,000-square-foot building near Dupont Circle that will be home to a new D.C. campus. The $49.4 million purchase of the property at 1771 N St. NW, announced Wednesday, enables the private university in Los Angeles to establish an eastern hub for teaching, research, lobbying, recruiting, alumni networking and community outreach. The deal underscores that higher education institutions based elsewhere often find it desirable to establish a prominent Washington address.

March 16, 2023

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MichLive.com

AG Nessel Probing Alleged Misuse of Endowment Funds at Michigan College

AG Nessel Probing Alleged Misuse of Endowment Funds at Michigan Col...

March 15, 2023

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office is investigating a complaint that alleges Albion College is violating state law over its use of its endowments to cover budget deficits. The allegations, detailed last year in an April 11 letter to Attorney General Dana Nessel and her office, allege the private college is illegally overdrawing from its endowment fund and using donor gifts to cover budget shortfalls. Albion College officials have denied the allegations, stating that COVID-19 pandemic-related budget deficits were covered using unrestricted pots of the endowments.
 
The Michigan Attorney General’s Office is investigating a complaint that alleges Albion College is violating state law over its use of its endowments to cover budget deficits. The allegations, detailed last year in an April 11 letter to Attorney General Dana Nessel and her office, allege the private college is illegally overdrawing from its endowment fund and using donor gifts to cover budget shortfalls. Albion College officials have denied the allegations, stating that COVID-19 pandemic-related budget deficits were covered using unrestricted pots of the endowments.
 

March 15, 2023

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Disruption of Speech at Stanford Prompts President to Apologize — and Criticize Staff’s Response

Disruption of Speech at Stanford Prompts President to Apologize — a...

March 15, 2023

A student protest that interrupted a controversial speaker at Stanford University last week led its president and law dean to criticize campus staff, including, apparently, the associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion who joined the speaker at the podium and discussed the students’ concerns. Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, was invited to give a talk titled “The Fifth Circuit in Conversation With the Supreme Court: Covid, Guns, and Twitter,” by the law school’s chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative and libertarian legal organization.
A student protest that interrupted a controversial speaker at Stanford University last week led its president and law dean to criticize campus staff, including, apparently, the associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion who joined the speaker at the podium and discussed the students’ concerns. Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, was invited to give a talk titled “The Fifth Circuit in Conversation With the Supreme Court: Covid, Guns, and Twitter,” by the law school’s chapter of the Federalist Society, a conservative and libertarian legal organization.

March 15, 2023

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The Washington Post

Wellesley College Students Vote to Admit Transgender Men

Wellesley College Students Vote to Admit Transgender Men

March 15, 2023

Students at Wellesley College voted Tuesday to allow transgender men and nonbinary people who were assigned male at birth to be eligible for admission, in a move that could symbolically change the face of the Massachusetts women’s liberal arts college. The nonbinding vote followed an occasionally fraught debate in recent weeks that had pitched students against the college administration, which has resisted the move.
Students at Wellesley College voted Tuesday to allow transgender men and nonbinary people who were assigned male at birth to be eligible for admission, in a move that could symbolically change the face of the Massachusetts women’s liberal arts college. The nonbinding vote followed an occasionally fraught debate in recent weeks that had pitched students against the college administration, which has resisted the move.

March 15, 2023

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Inside Higher Ed

Duke to Challenge Ph.D. Students’ Right to Unionize

Duke to Challenge Ph.D. Students’ Right to Unionize

March 14, 2023

Duke University (NC) will legally challenge its graduate student workers’ latest effort to unionize. The Service Employees International Union–affiliated Duke Graduate Students Union is currently trying to earn recognition after a failed attempt in 2016–17.
Duke University (NC) will legally challenge its graduate student workers’ latest effort to unionize. The Service Employees International Union–affiliated Duke Graduate Students Union is currently trying to earn recognition after a failed attempt in 2016–17.

March 14, 2023

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