Columbia University complies with the Trump administration’s demands to put the School of Middle Eastern Studies under receivership.
In a keynote speech at Harvard University President Lawrence Summers asserts that innate gender differences largely explained women’s underrepresentation in science fields.
A Virginia lawyer, Lewis J. Powell, writes a confidential memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, exhorting big business to purge leftists from university teaching positions.
A second attempt by the University of California’s Board of Regents to fire Angela Davis from her UCLA teaching job fails.
Black Student Union leads protests at San Francisco State University that produce the College of Ethnic Studies.