This weekend, college basketball tournaments will unfurl before millions of viewers and against a backdrop of seismic change.

Definitions of the term are highly contested, so a group monitoring antisemitism on Columbia University’s campus has avoided picking sides. It is still facing criticism.

With anger rising over pro-Palestinian protests, the university’s regents are set to vote on a proposal that would draw tighter boundaries around speech.

The incremental relief brings the canceled total to $143.6 billion for nearly four million Americans.

Big-time college sports, often money-losing enterprises, have contracted in recent years—even as smaller, tuition-dependent institutions add teams to boost enrollment. When the University of Arizona basketball team takes on Long Beach State University today, it will mark the beginning of the NCAA’s wildly popular and lucrative men’s basketball tournament known as March Madness. The Wildcats—a contender to make a run for the national championship given their high seed and strong regular season record—are an anomaly at UA: a team that generates positive revenue for the university even as the athletics department struggles across the board.

During a recent convening, diversity officers shared ideas for surviving an increasingly vicious political campaign to eliminate their jobs.