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A Tale of Two Seasons at Columbia, and Two Responses to Student Arrests

When Mahmoud Khalil was detained by immigration agents last year, the university’s response was restrained. It was different with Elmina Aghayeva this week.

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D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests

Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.

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Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead

Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.

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Judge to Weigh Next Steps in Student Activist Deportations Case

The hearing on Thursday followed up on the court’s sweeping finding in September that noncitizen students had the same free speech rights as citizens.

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They Were Supposed to Protect Young Workers. Instead, They Cashed In.

Profit-seekers co-opted America’s premier cultural exchange program, the J-1 visa, which brought young people to work in the United States. Some sponsors charged thousands in fees.

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Suspect in MIT Professor’s Death Was an Ex-Classmate from Portugal, Prosecutors Say

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, the professor, attended the same physics program in Portugal as the man suspected in his killing.

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