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In one of the largest women-led fundraising efforts ever conducted at an institution of higher learning, 103 female graduates of Dartmouth College have each donated a minimum of $1 million, raising a total of $379 million, the college announced yesterday. The donors committed another $61 million to the college in bequest expectancies.

Student workers in Hamilton College’s admissions office win bid for collective bargaining. The union is the first of its kind.

The University of Rochester has closed or scaled back several of its dining options and given students a partial refund on their meal plans, the result of an ongoing workforce shortage in its food services department.

A summer study abroad program at Harvard University is being moved from Beijing to Taipei, Taiwan, The Harvard Crimson reported. The Crimson cited the director of the Harvard Beijing Academy, Jennifer Liu, who said that in recent years the program had difficulty accessing the classrooms and dorms they needed at the host institution, Beijing Language and Culture University.

Emerson suspends right-wing student group that distributed stickers saying “CHINA KINDA SUS” and denounces “anti-China” and “anti-Chinese” message. A free speech group cries foul.