Black student enrollment drops at NYU, Columbia, Cornell after SCOTUS ends affirmative action
At Cornell, students who identified as Black dropped from 12% to 8%, Hispanic from 17% to 11%, and white from 49% to 47%, university data show. The share of Asian students ticked upward by two ...
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Cornell urged to defend activist students facing deportation
British student Momodou Taal, a PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Cornell, is among those facing potential deportation. Taal was suspended by the university last year after participating in a ...
Suspended Cornell student faces a potential exit from U.S. after pro-Palestinian demonstration
Cornell University student Momodou Taal fears he may have ... Taal alleges that he has been targeted because he is Black and ...
Cornell students and faculty hold meeting to defend immigrants' rights
On Monday, hundreds of students and faculty at Cornell University held a meeting to discuss the Trump administration's attack on immigrants and the suppression of democratic rights on college campuses ...
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At House hearing, pro-Palestinian protester interrupts Jewish student’s recounting of antisemitic death threats
Silberstein is an undergraduate at Cornell University, where a student was recently arrested ... done so if he had shared anti-trans or anti-Black views instead. One Democrat, Georgia Rep.
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FBI arrests Cornell student for allegedly threatening to rape and murder Jews
The Justice Department announced Tuesday night that a Cornell University junior has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Jewish students. Patrick Dai, 21, allegedly posted on an online ...
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Cornell University cancels classes Friday following arrest of student for antisemitic threats
“The hope for tomorrow is that everyone will use this as restorative time to take care of themselves,” Lindsey Knewstub, a university spokeswoman, said Thursday. (JTA) — Following the arrest ...