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About seven in 10 of the 37 percent of members who voted backed the resolution. A similar measure in 2016, with half of AAA members voting, failed.

A state appeals court has unanimously ruled that the University of Michigan is within its rights to ban weapons on campus, The Detroit Free Press reported.

McPherson College announced a $500 million gift Friday. The donor is anonymous. The donor has previously pledged $500 million. The combined $1 billion gift will be paid over time until the donor’s death, at which point the remaining funds will be paid.

Rutgers University’s University Senate voted no confidence in President Jonathan Holloway over plans to merge the university’s two medical schools, at New Brunswick and at Newark, NorthJersey reported.

Mark Tykocinski has resigned as president of Thomas Jefferson University and as dean of the university’s medical school, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Tykocinski has only been president for a year. He will stay on as a full professor.

A new working paper suggests that highly selective private colleges could change the make-up of their student bodies (and the future leaders

Two former athletes sued Northwestern University for its role in alleged hazing incidents, CNN reported. The suits are the first to come out of a hazing scandal facing the university's athletics department. According to one suit, a person who was listed as “Jane Doe” experienced “hazing, harassment, bullying and retaliation” as a member of the team, and sustained an injury while running suicides–an exercise where an athlete runs to every line on the court and back in quick succession–as punishment for allegedly breaking the team’s Covid-19 protocols.

Colgate University has added vocational and trade schools to its benefit for employees children.

A man was arrested last week for second-degree threatening, second-degree breach of peace and second-degree failure to appear, and he had visited Brown University and the University of Connecticut to plan mass shootings there, authorities said,

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