Claudine Gay speaks during the 368th Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 30, 2019. Brian Snyder | Reuters Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid new allegations of plagiarism, becoming the second Ivy League leader to step down after controversy over their congressional testimony last month about antisemitism on campus. … Read more
many times a year, as if on a hidden schedule, some tech person, often venture-capital-adjacent, types out a thought on social media like “The only thing liberal arts majors are good for is scrubbing floors while I punch them” and hits Send. Then the poetry people respond—often a little late, in need of haircuts—with earnest … Read more
The Supreme Court docket on Thursday dominated that the affirmative motion admission insurance policies of Harvard and the College of North Carolina are unconstitutional. The ruling is an enormous blow to decades-old efforts to spice up enrollment of minorities at American universities via insurance policies that took under consideration candidates’ race. “Eliminating racial discrimination means … Read more