Around the nation, editorial boards at college newspapers have defended free speech and pro-Palestinian protesters in recent weeks.

President Biden will deliver the commencement addresses in May as U.S. support for Israel fuels protests on other campuses.

[Mastercard Foundation] As part of strengthening and enhancing the quality, accessibility, and resilience of higher education in Ethiopia, the e-SHE program, a partnership between the Ministry of Education, the Mastercard Foundation, Arizona State University, and ShayaShone, successfully established five state-of-the-art multimedia studios in public universities across Ethiopia, known as...

In a Washington war room, Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, decided to call police officers to arrest protesting students. The backlash now threatens her leadership.

[Vanguard] A starting point will be to felicitate our motherly scholar and scholarly mother, the vice chancellor of Lagos State University, LASU, as she joins the league of sexagenarians on Tuesday, 23 April, 2024! The story of the 9th substantive vice chancellor of Lagos State University is one that can be beneficially recounted as a lesson for all and in celebration of her 60th birthday.

[Capital FM] Nairobi — Huawei Kenya is set to sponsor selected students from different universities in the country in a technology teaching program in South Africa.

[Capital FM] Nairobi — At least 12 African Ministers of Education are expected to gather in Nairobi for the 6th Forum of the Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering, and Technology (PASET).

[Premium Times] “The minimum age of entry into the university is 18, but we have seen students who are 15, 16 years going in for the entrance examination.”

[Africa Renewal] Nigerian gender advocate roots for empowerment of women and girls

[The Conversation Africa] Very little research has been conducted about academics with disabilities working in South African universities. This means their stories, and the challenges they face in the daily demands of their jobs, are not often told. Sibonokuhle Ndlovu, who holds a PhD in education and lectures on the subject, explains what her study of academics with disabilities revealed.

Students were arrested at N.Y.U. and Yale on Monday. But at Columbia, that approach led to a new encampment and demonstrations outside its gates.

Pro-Palestinian protesters, many of whom are Jewish, prepared Seder dinners at college protest encampments, even as other Jewish students sought community in more traditional settings.

On a day the university president asked students to stay home, a tent city on a campus lawn kept growing, protesters met in tense confrontations and police and politicians converged to weigh in.

Jacob Beacher is accused of stealing a Palestinian flag and causing $40,000 in damage to religious artifacts at Rutgers University during the Eid-al-Fitr holiday.

The university senate is expected to vote as early as Wednesday on a resolution censuring Nemat Shafik, a reaction to her testimony before Congress and the arrests of student protesters.