Vanderbilt University students protests began Tuesday after an amendment to the Vanderbilt Student Government Constitution, which would prevent student government funds from going to certain businesses that support Israel, was removed by administration officials from a student ballot in late March. The sit-in ended early Wednesday morning, with numerous students removed from an administration building […]

In Kentucky, the House-passed version would ban race-based scholarships and defund DEI offices and staff positions. It would prohibit the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, which oversees public universities, from approving degrees that require courses containing “discriminatory concepts.” And it would hold public universities accountable to “dismantle the misguided DEI bureaucracies,” said Republican state Rep. […]

 By a vote of 13-to-12, the full Senate on Tuesday rejected the reconfirmation of University of Hawaii Board of Regents Interim Chair Alapaki Nahale-a. This comes after a senate committee voted unanimously against his confirmation last week―a move the UH faculty union is calling an abuse of power. During a humiliating confirmation hearing before the state Senate’s […]