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Harvard holding commencement after weekslong pro-Palestinian encampment protest
Harvard University planned to hold its commencement Thursday following a weekslong pro-Palestinian encampment that shut down Harvard Yard to all but those with university ties and roiled tensions on the campus.Those tensions were ticked up a notch on Wednesday when school officials announced that 13 Harvard students who participated in the encampment won’t be able to receive degrees alongside their classmates.Those in the encampment had called for a ceasefire in Gaza and for Harvard to divest from companies that support the war.The decision by the school’s top governing board follows a recommendation Monday by faculty members to allow the...
Somerville’s Winter Hill school closed suddenly a year ago and hasn’t reopened. What’s next?
“I just really don't want them to forget about the kids that are there now." Members of an eighth grade civics class were met with thunderous applause at a recent Somerville School Committee meeting as they presented their in-depth survey on how Somerville should replace the Winter Hill Community Innovation School, a year after it suddenly closed.
Weymouth School Committee names interim superintendent. Who will fill the role?
WEYMOUTH – Assistant Superintendent Melanie Curtin will serve as interim superintendent following the recent departure of Superintendent Robert Wargo. The school committee on Thursday unanimously approved Curtin, who most recently served as assistant superintendent of instructional services and support, to the interim position. The committee and Curtin agreed to a one-year contract with...
Brockton's AJ Dybantsa taking five-star high school basketball career on the move again
AJ Dybantsa's high school basketball career is on the move again. The 6-foot-8 five-star recruit from Brockton will transfer to Utah Prep for his senior year after one season at Prolific Prep in Napa, California this past winter, Dybantsa's father Ace confirmed to The Enterprise on Friday morning. Dybantsa is...
Group of graduates walk out of Harvard commencement chanting 'Free, free Palestine'
Hundreds of students in graduation robes walked out of the Harvard commencement chanting “Free, free Palestine” and “Let them walk” after weeks of protests on campus over the Israeli assault in Gaza. (AP Video shot and produced by Rodrique Ngowi.) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Hundreds of students in graduation robes walked out of the Harvard commencement on Thursday chanting “Free, free Palestine” after weeks of protests on campus and a day after the school announced that 13 Harvard students who participated in a protest encampment would not be able to receive diplomas alongside their classmates. Some students chanted “Let them walk, let them walk” during Thursday’s commencement, referring to allowing those 13 students to get their diplomas along with fellow graduates. Student speaker Shruthi Kumar said “this semester our freedom of speech and our expressions of solidarity became punishable,” she said to cheers and applause.
MassBay Community College graduates urged to 'say yes and figure it out later'
WELLESLEY — Standing in the face of grit. That's what state Rep. Priscila Sousa, D-Framingham, told 310 members of the Class of 2024 at MassBay Community College. A total of 620 earned degrees, but only half walked during Thursday evening's ceremony, held on MassBay's main campus. The student speaker...
Students honored with scholarships at 33rd annual LHSF gala
Sidnee ShortNAHANT — The Lynn Hispanic Scholarship Fund held its 33rd annual gala at the Bayside, where 13 students from Lynn were honored with scholarships. The LHSF was founded by Maria Luz “Lucy” Tizol in 1991 to assist and support Latino and Hispanic graduates from Lynn heading to college. “The Lynn Hispanic Scholarship Fund has awarded […] The post Students honored with scholarships at 33rd annual LHSF gala appeared first on Itemlive.
Harvard let antisemitism run wild — as Jewish students face slurs, intimidation and attacks, suit claims
Harvard University has been slapped with a federal civil rights lawsuit for allegedly allowing antisemitism against Jewish students to flourish unchecked on campus — even before the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel. “Jews are fair game,” the complaint filed Wednesday by The Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education said. “Students and faculty can harass and discriminate against Jews, and they can do so openly and with impunity. “When Harvard is presented with incontrovertible evidence of anti-Semitic conduct, it ignores and tolerates it,” the 72-page suit claims. “Harvard’s permissive posture towards antisemitism is the...
Cambridge College lays off 50 employees amid Bay Path University merger
Cambridge College is laying off 50 full-time faculty and staff as the Boston-based educational institution for adult learners is acquired by Bay Path University. The layoffs come in part from an overlap in the roles and responsibilities between the two institutions or because the individuals didn’t want to work at Bay Path.
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