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Yesterday — 14 December 2025Main stream

Gunshots, Sirens and a Manhunt Transform Brown’s Campus

A typical Saturday night on the Ivy League campus was shaken by the killing of two people and the wounding of 9 others.

© Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times

East Providence police officers in Providence, R.I., on Saturday.

Active Shooter Alert Issued at Brown University in Rhode Island

14 December 2025 at 06:34
The university warned students to hide in an alert late Saturday afternoon. A suspect was not in custody, university officials said, correcting an earlier posting.

© Eden Ambaye

Emergency responders on the scene of a reported shooting on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I. on Saturday.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Harvard Replaces Leader of Health Center Said to Have Focused on Palestinians

13 December 2025 at 04:54
The center at the university’s public health school was also a focus of the Trump administration after having been examined in a Harvard antisemitism report earlier this year.

© Sophie Park for The New York Times

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard’s public health school will have new leadership. An interim was named in the meantime.

Lecturer Sanctioned Over MAGA White Supremacy Lesson Is Back in Class

12 December 2025 at 03:37
Some disciplinary measures have been imposed on the lecturer, including being monitored as she teaches a class on diversity and social justice.

© Darron Cummings/Associated Press

The Indiana University campus in Bloomington.

Michigan Football Coach Is Detained After Being Fired

11 December 2025 at 16:48
The University of Michigan fired Sherrone Moore earlier in the day, an abrupt end to his career there, one of the highest profile jobs in college football.

© Greg Fiume/Getty Images

Sherrone Moore became the Michigan head coach in 2024. He was fired on Wednesday.

The Conservative Overhaul of the University of Texas Is Underway

The school has been brought to heel by conservative critics of higher education. It is part of a broader transformation at the state’s universities.

© Callaghan O'Hare for The New York Times

A Republican lawyer, not an academic, now runs the University of Texas at Austin. Other changes are also underway.
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