This week, the President of Brandeis resigned, a congressional hearing investigated FAFSA’s botched rollout, the Stop Campus Hazing Act passed the House of Representatives, and three top universities were questioned about their compliance with the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban.
President of Brandeis Ron Leibowitz resigned Wednesday, following a recent faculty no-confidence vote. Leibowitz’s critics cited poor leadership, badly handled budget shortfalls, and his administration’s response to Israel-Hamas campus protests as reasons for his dismissal. Arthur E. Levine will take office November 1 as interim president.
A congressional hearing digging into FAFSA’s botched rollout found a slew of bureaucratic issues that left some lawmakers questioning whether next year’s FAFSA can launch without additional problems.
The Stop Campus Hazing Act passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday and is on its way to the Senate. The bipartisan bill, which requires institutions to include hazing incidents in their annual security reports, implement anti-hazing programs, and formally publish their hazing policies, is the first anti-hazing legislation to pass the House.
Princeton, Yale, and Duke were questioned by the Students for Fair Admissions (SFA) over their compliance with the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban. SFA, the nonprofit that opposes race-based admissions and successfully represented Asian students in the lawsuit against Harvard last year, suggested that the three universities’ class of 2028 racial demographics are “not possible” under true neutrality.
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