April 26, 2024 Protests at Columbia and other schools escalate

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• Woodbury University
• DOE Awards Eight Collegiate Faculty Members for Advancing Energy Entrepreneurship
• SPRING STUDENT DINING - 11am-3pm MONDAY thru FRIDAY
• Elise Stefanik has taken aim at college presidents on elite campuses.
• Columbia University Board of Trustees voices support for embattled president
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• UT Austin Police give "all clear" for dispersal order as authorities arrest more than 30 protesters

Faculty House membership includes a host of benefits from everyday formal and private dining options to larger private functions such as weddings, office seminars and more. If you have any questions about Faculty House membership please contact us or visit our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information. This track is designed to incentivize and support faculty directly, offering $100,000 in cash prizes throughout the prize. “Today, student-misconduct cases are far outpacing last year,” said Dr. Shafik, who goes by Minouche. In her opening remarks, Nemat Shafik, president of Columbia University, gave an idea of how pervasive complaints of antisemitism have become since Oct. 7, adding that Columbia had been aggressive in pursuing disciplinary action. The House committee investigating Columbia University for antisemitism has claimed that “an environment of pervasive antisemitism has been documented at Columbia for more than two decades” and that the administration has not done enough in response.

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Police at Arizona State University arrested three people Friday “for trespassing in connection with setting up an unauthorized encampment, in violation of university policy,” a university spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. Columbia's senate represents people on campus, including faculty, researchers, students, administration and more, according to the school's website. The body has the authority to make policies on a variety of issues that affect the school. The college “immediately restored full access for these students to residence halls, dining facilities, classrooms, and other parts of campus,” according to a statement from the school released Friday. Around 40 of the approximately 100 people who set up a pro-Palestinian encampment at the Auraria Campus in Denver were arrested Friday, the campus said in a statement. Also announced at the Energy Thought Summit was the upcoming launch of EnergyTech UP 2025, which will again offer students and faculty members cash prizes for their efforts in energy entrepreneurship.

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ACT/SAT scores have been removed from rankings to reflect a general de-emphasis on test scores in the college admissions process. Weyburn Terrace is located just southwest of the campus in Westwood Village. The other four are roughly five miles south of UCLA in Palms and Mar Vista. They too vary in pricing and privacy.[195] Approximately 400 students live at the University Cooperative Housing Association, located two blocks off campus.[196] Students who are involved in Greek life have the option to also live in Greek housing while at UCLA. Sorority houses are located east of campus on Hilgard Avenue, and fraternity houses are located west of campus throughout Westwood Village. The David Geffen School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Dentistry and Fielding School of Public Health constitute the professional schools of health science.

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You can see them from the outside by touring off Earl Street between Silver Lake Boulevard and Glendale Boulevard. It sounds more like modern times than 1915, but Dr. Roy Lanterman was ahead of his time when he wanted to build a fireproof bungalow made of reinforced concrete. The house is located at the crest of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Mulholland Drive and is open for guided tours by reservation only. The house is owned by the MAK Center, which also runs the Schindler House and you'll find details about the tours at the MAK Center website. Today it's open as a museum, located in Malibu Lagoon State Park and open to the public for guided tours.

Elise Stefanik has taken aim at college presidents on elite campuses.

The future of independent journalism is uncertain, and the consequences of losing it are too grave to ignore. We have hours left to raise the $12,0000 still needed to ensure Truthout remains safe, strong, and free. Every dollar raised goes directly toward the costs of producing news you can trust. Carson Green is a Cal Poly student and a member of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA). He explained that faculty workload has intensified during his time as a student, with average class sizes rising from thirty to more than fifty. “It’s important for every student to be out here in solidarity,” he said.

However, if you are catering an event at our facilities during dinner hours, we do offer a dinner selection menu for catering such events. EnergyTech UP also recently completed the Student Track, announcing 13 National and Bonus Prize Winners at the Energy Thought Summit in Austin, Texas. Student teams developed and presented business plans around emerging energy technologies. Throughout the competition, they received mentorship and materials to help them succeed, all while competing for part of $450,000 in cash prizes. After leaving the I.M.F. in 2014, she was a deputy governor of the Bank of England before returning to academia as president of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017. Her response to campus tensions sparked by the Israel-Hamas war has been her first big test.

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“Per long-standing university policy, all faculty on approved unpaid leaves for sabbaticals, fellowships and visiting professorships, as Rep. Porter is, as well as professors with emeritus status, may remain in their University Hills housing,” Wong said. The high cost of housing in Orange County created an obstacle for UC Irvine when it sought to recruit talented faculty and administrators. So state university leaders created a nonprofit that built a sprawling suburban development, dubbed University Hills, laced with nature trails, swept by Pacific Ocean breezes and boasting some of the state’s top K-12 schools. Faculty & Staff and guests are welcome to join us for lunch every weekday, beautifully set in the Faculty House Dining Room. We also host a monthly Community Hour, providing time for our faculty and staff to relax and catch-up with one another. The department’s final rule, which will go into effect on July 1, 2024, will increase the standard salary level that helps define and delimit which salaried workers are entitled to overtime pay protections under the FLSA.

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The development was created because the high cost of housing in Orange County made it difficult for UC Irvine to recruit. The final rule will restore and extend the right to overtime pay to many salaried workers, including workers who historically were entitled to overtime pay under the FLSA because of their lower pay or the type of work they performed. Starting July 1, most salaried workers who earn less than $844 per week will become eligible for overtime pay under the final rule.

UT Austin Police give "all clear" for dispersal order as authorities arrest more than 30 protesters

But Dr. Shafik struggled to state clearly, when questioned, whether Dr. Massad would be removed from his position leading a university panel. Dr. Shafik explained that the university had suspended two student groups, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, because they repeatedly violated its policies on demonstrations. Sheldon Pollock, a retired Columbia professor who helps lead Columbia’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said Dr. Shafik had been “bulldozed and bullied” into saying things she would regret. Speaking at a historically Black college would provide an “opportunity” for Biden, according to the person familiar with the controversy.

Students and staff participate in dinghy sailing, surfing, windsurfing, rowing, and kayaking at the UCLA Marina Aquatic Center in Marina del Rey. UCLA shares a traditional sports rivalry with the University of Southern California. UCLA teams have won the second-most NCAA Division I-sanctioned team championships, while USC has the third-most.[155][156][157] Only Stanford University, a fellow Pac-12 member also located in California, has more than either UCLA or USC. The football rivalry is distinctive for two of the strongest conference programs located in one city. In football, UCLA has one national champion team and 16 conference titles, compared to USC's 11 national championships and 37 conference championships.

“I would be happy to make a statement that anyone, any faculty member, at Columbia who behaves in an antisemitic way or in any way a discriminatory way should find somewhere else to go,” Dr. Shafik replied. When Ms. Stefanik pressed Dr. Shafik to commit to removing Professor Massad from a leadership post, the president inhaled, her hands folded before her on the witness table. But there were moments when university leaders offered more than Washington-ready rhetoric. When Representative Bobby Scott of Virginia, the committee’s top ranking Democrat, tried to enlist Ms. Shipman to agree that the committee should be investigating a wide range of bias around race, sex and gender, she resisted. Dr. Massad said it was also “news to me” that he was the subject of a Columbia inquiry. He noted that he was already scheduled to cycle out of his leadership role at the end of the spring semester.

The combined enrollment at Morehouse and its adjoining schools that make up the Atlanta University Center is about 9,000 students. The president had more comfortable margins in Michigan and Pennsylvania but cannot afford to lose Black support across the metro areas of Detroit and Philadelphia. Biden’s speech at Morehouse will mark the second consecutive spring that the president has spoken to the graduating class of a historically Black school. The Washington, D.C., school is the alma mater of Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to hold that office. Morehouse, a private all-male school that is part of the multi-campus Atlanta University Center, also is the alma mater of Sen. Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator.