Following months-long protests and unrest on college campuses around the country, the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles in California is asking universities to better protect students this upcoming year. In an open letter obtained by Fox News Digital, Rabbi Noah Farkas, president and CEO of Jewish Federation Los Angeles, details how universities and their surrounding...
Idaho prosecutors have formally objected to University of Idaho students murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s motion to change venue and have his trial moved out of Latah County, where the slayings took place. The filing, signed by Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson and Ingrid Batey, a special assistant attorney general for the state, was made public...
The embattled president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik, has resigned effective immediately, Fox News Digital has confirmed. Shafik announced her decision Wednesday in a letter addressed to the Columbia community after facing repeated calls to step down over her response to the anti-Israel protests and encampments that overtook Columbia’s campus in the spring and led...
A 22-year-old journalist at the start of her career was struck and killed by an oncoming train in Chicago. Grace Bentkowski, 22, was commuting home to Dyer, Indiana, on July 25 when the incident occurred. The recent college grad arrived at Hegewisch Station and began crossing the tracks when a train barreled toward her and...
Anti-Israel agitators at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are vowing resistance “by any means necessary” as the 2024-2025 school year officially begins on Aug. 18. An unofficial anti-Israel student group called UNC Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), representing Chapel Hill, posted a commitment to “resist by any means necessary” and said it condones...
Occidental College in Los Angeles is facing allegations of ideological bias after the school decided not to renew the contract for an economic professor with conservative views. Daron Djerdjian had taught various economics classes at Occidental or “Oxy” since 2010 and his classes were highly rated by students online, economist Mark Skousen wrote in a...
Columbia University in New York City is welcoming students back for the fall 2024 semester with a lockdown to keep out “non-affiliates” with bad intentions as part of its response to antisemitic protests in the spring that culminated with police storming a barricaded building to drag out anti-Israel agitators, authorities announced over the weekend. Police...
Riley Strain, the University of Missouri student who disappeared from a night out in Nashville in March before his body was found along the Cumberland River, was served 12 to 15 drinks prior to his death, according to a police investigation. A medical examiner determined that Strain, 22, had a blood alcohol level of .228%...
Two men have been arrested in connection with a shooting on the campus of Vanderbilt University on Saturday afternoon that left one person wounded, the Metro Nashville Police told Fox News Digital. Police said the incident happened around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday after an argument between members of a construction crew who were working at...
Three deans at Columbia University have resigned from their positions after they engaged in a texting exchange that “disturbingly touched on ancient antisemitic tropes.” Susan Chang-Kim, vice dean and chief administrative officer, Matthew Patashnick, associate dean for student and family support, and Cristen Kromm, dean of undergraduate student life, all have stepped down. The resignations...
