President Doug Hicks said removing Maxwell Chambers’ name would “erase the first 25 years of our history.”

Maxwell Chambers sold plantations as well as enslaved peoples in the 1800s, but also helped the school survive financial crisis.

As a principle of academic debate, speech should be presumptively allowed. The details of achieving that may get messy, but that goal is fundamental.

Students discuss support for Hamas and anti-Israel rallies.

A university-backed event promotes denial and justifications of Hamas’s atrocities.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog wrote to the heads of U.S. universities and colleges calling on them to join together in a demonstration of moral leadership, and to deal with “any incidents of support or sympathy for the actions of Hamas terrorists…as a matter of urgency,” according to a copy of the

Decades after the state of North Carolina began funding distinguished professorships at public universities in the UNC System, lawmakers have decided they will only do so for professors in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — areas going forward.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy launched his “We Are Made to Connect” campus tour last month, highlighting the role colleges can play in curing the loneliness epidemic. On the first stop in his “We Are Made to Connect” campus tour, U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy visited Duke University Oct. 25 to spread his message about the importance of social connection.

They’re being told by advocates, alumni, donors, faculty, and students to denounce, support, and shut up about the roiling protests over the conflict.