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Otterbein University is growing its footprint in Westerville by expanding The Point, its maker space that brings together students with startups and other employers, and creating an innovation district.

Syracuse University offers full-throated defense for a professor targeted for her views about Sept. 11, prompting other academics to wonder why more institutions don’t defend even divisive scholars in this way.

It acts despite hundreds of COVID-19 cases. Some of the other colleges that had moved online are also resuming normal operations.

The president of George Washington University will retire in December, about six months earlier than originally planned, school officials announced Friday. Thomas LeBlanc, who has led the largest university in the District since 2017, said in May he planned to retire at the end of the school year, in June 2022. He said the school needed a leader who could plan for a future post-pandemic.

Harvard University said this week that it will end all of its investments in fossil fuels, a landmark victory for climate activists who have lobbied major colleges and universities to stop funding activities that help drive global warming.