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College will also drop tribute to ‘Pitchfork’ Ben Tillman South Carolina trustees cite protests over killing of George Floyd John C Calhoun by Mathew Brady, 1849. Some scholars think the senator and vice-president was Melville’s model for Captain Ahab. Photograph: Sotheby’s Clemson University trustees voted on Friday to rename its honors college, stripping the name […] More
WSU Tech stops first daughter’s commencement speech amid criticism of Donald Trump’s response to George Floyd protests Ivanka Trump at a cabinet meeting in mid-May. After the cancellation, she tweeted: ‘Cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination are antithetical to academia.’ Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Ivanka Trump has hit out at “cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination” after […] More
The fight to vote US universities Free the students: why there’s a push to make election day a campus holiday Across the US, students and faculty are asking universities to close for one day to make voting easier This piece is published in partnership with Teen Vogue Students at the University of California, Berkeley, recently […] More
President attacks CNN and Democrats at CDC event Universities cancel classes in Washington state Donald Trump used a freewheeling press conference on Friday, intended to provide updates on the coronavirus, as an opportunity to attack Democrats, praise his own intelligence, lash out at CNN and spread false and misleading information about the status of the […] More
