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Harvard University reversed its decision to name Chelsea Manning a visiting fellow early Friday, a day after CIA Director Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned appearance over the title for the soldier who was convicted of leaking classified information. Douglas Elmendorf, the dean of the university's John F. Kennedy School of Government, wrote in a statement posted to the university's website that naming Manning a visiting fellow was a mistake, even though he said the title carries no special honor.
Mixed signals from Washington over a possible agreement to preserve protections for young immigrants are increasing anxiety and confusion on college campuses, where the stakes are high. Amid the uncertainty, colleges and universities are stepping up efforts to protect students enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, telling them to be hopeful but plan for the worst.
Douglas Elmendorf, the dean of the university's John F. Kennedy School of Government, wrote in a statement posted to the university's website that naming Manning a visiting fellow was a mistake, even though he said the title carries no special honor. Harvard University reversed its decision to name Chelsea Manning a visiting fellow early Friday, a day after CIA Director Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned appearance over the title for the soldier who was convicted of leaking classified information.
At the end of July, The New York Times published a report about the latest Department of Justice investigation. The report read like a work of satire: Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be looking into racial discrimination toward white college applicants as a result of affirmative action policies.
Last week, President Donald Trump endorsed an immigration bill put forth by Senators David Perdue and Tom Cotton. The reaction was swift yet predictable.
In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs.
In 2016 the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of affirmative action at the University of Texas-Austin , further validating the use of race in admissions policies around the country. The efforts of opponents of affirmative action were temporarily stymied, but they have reemerged with a lawsuit against Harvard University claiming the school discriminates against Asian-Americans, The New York Times reported.
Former Vice President Joe Biden waves as he steps on the stage at the start of 2017 Harvard College Class Day exercises, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Biden is scheduled to deliver the 2017 Class Day address.
After years of escalated pressure from students, faculty and alumni, Harvard University is taking a significant step toward fossil fuel divestment. Earlier this week, at a Climate Week event entitled, "How Harvard's Endowment is Thinking About Climate," Colin Butterfield, Harvard Management Company's Managing Director of the Committee of Natural Resources said that HMC is "pausing" direct investments in oil, gas, and coal in the natural resources portfolio.
Harvard University is honoring one of its most famous graduates - John F. Kennedy - with a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the slain president's birth. Harvard hosts the John F. Kennedy Centennial Symposium on Thursday.
The nonprofit Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement surveyed coverage of immigration detention -- or stories about immigrants detained by the U.S. government -- in "a variety of media outlets" from 2009 to 2016 and found evidence that right-wing outlets routinely criminalize immigrants in their coverage. The study also found that the nativist Center for Immigration Studies is cited more than other data sources.
Laurence Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard University, warned on Wednesday that the U.S. was heading down a slippery slope toward autocracy after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used Senate rules to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren . During a Senate debate over Jeff Sessions' confirmation for attorney general Wednesday night, McConnell invoked Senate Rule 19 to silence Warren while she was reading a letter written by the widow of Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, about Sessions 30 years ago.
In a little-noticed development, then President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 5 named former Whitman-Walker Clinic associate director Katy French Talento as his White House health policy adviser. Talento's LinkedIn page and other biographical information on her shows that she served from December 1998 to November 2000 as a Whitman-Walker Program Evaluator and later as its Associate Director for Contracts and Grants.
Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's first campaign manager, arrives at Trump Tower where U.S. President-elect Donald Trump lives in New York, Nov. 28, 2016.
Kellyanne Conway, Trump-Pence campaign manager, left, sits with Robby Mook, Clinton-Kaine campaign manager, prior to Thursday's forum at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. Every four years, the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government assembles the managers of the presidential campaigns for a deep, post-election debrief.
President-elect Donald Trump smiles as he speaks during the first stop of his post-election tour, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Cincinnati. . President-elect Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a "USA Thank You" tour event, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Cincinnati.
Tempers flared and political fault-lines were inflamed, as aides to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gathered for their first meeting since Election Day. Every four years since 1972, top presidential campaign aides have met for a polite discussion of the fierce battle they just waged.
President Barack Obama with the 2016 American Nobel Prize winners in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. With Obama are from left, Oliver Hart, Laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, from Harvard University, F. Duncan M. Haldane, Laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics from Princeton University, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry from Northwestern University, and J. Michael Kosterlitz, Laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, from Brown University.
This year's class of Rhodes scholars from the U.S. includes students who have used data to visualize sea level rise, some who speak several languages and the son of undocumented immigrants. The Rhodes Trust announced the 32 American men and women chosen as scholars early Sunday.