Higher Ed

Greg Morrisett works out of the Bloomberg Center at the Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island.

Cornell Tech, Dynamo on the East River, Has Incubated More Than 100 Startups But Can It Engineer Its Own Growth?

May 20, 2024, 5:00 a.m.May 28, 2024, 10:57 a.m.

The city-seeded research campus on Roosevelt Island has been a quiet force in New York City’s tech economy yet is still little known even as students, faculty and alums play a crucial role in the booming AI marketplace.

A protester waves flags at the pro-Palestinian encampment at City College

Labor

CUNY Faculty Stage Illegal May Day Strike As Criticism Mounts Over Campus Protest Response

May 1, 2024, 4:33 p.m.May 1, 2024, 11:18 p.m.

Work stoppages are illegal for New York public servants, but 250-plus professors signed a pledge to not work on Wednesday in of students pressing demands to “divest from all companies complicit in the imperialist-zionist genocide.”

Pro-Palestinian students occupied Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, hanging banners from windows.

Higher Ed

Columbia Locks Down Campus as Students Occupy Hamilton Hall

April 30, 2024, 2:08 p.m.March 11, 2025, 8:58 p.m.

Pro-Palestinian student demonstrators blockaded themselves inside the iconic building, the site of occupations in 1968 and 1985.

Palestinian-solidarity student protesters continued to occupy part of Columbia University.

NYPD

After NYPD Crackdowns, Campus Protests for Gaza Persist at Columbia and NYU

April 23, 2024, 8:48 p.m.April 24, 2024, 10:48 a.m.

Calls also mount for Columbia President Minouche Shafik to resign, with some student groups and alumni saying she hasn’t done enough to combat antisemitism.

NYPD officers arrest pro-Palestine Columbia University students occupying a lawn on campus.

Higher Ed

Dozens of Columbia Students at Pro-Palestinian Encampment Arrested by NYPD

April 18, 2024, 5:21 p.m.April 18, 2024, 8:26 p.m.

“I took this extraordinary step because these are extraordinary circumstances,” Columbia President Minouche Shafik said of her decision to call in police to break up the demonstration.

A Farmer’s Fridge offers salads and pasta bowls as an alternative to the closed cafeteria at Bronx Community College.

Food

CUNY Community Colleges in The Bronx Left Without Cafeteria Service

March 4, 2024, 5:00 a.m.March 1, 2024, 3:01 p.m.

Only vending machines have offered food at two campuses since late September.

The Israeli flag flew at half mast at Yeshiva University several days after Hamas fighters massacred Jews near the Gaza border.

Higher Ed

Shaken Yeshiva University Students Mourn and Question

Oct. 14, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Oct. 17, 2023, 2:40 p.m.

Jewish undergraduates at the school’s Manhattan campuses mobilize aid efforts and wait warily for Israel’s next move.

Teachers

Fordham Graduate Students Walk Out of Teaching to Demand a Better Contract

April 25, 2023, 7:44 p.m.April 25, 2023, 7:44 p.m.

Dissatisfied after seven months of negotiations, hundreds of teaching assistants are ditching classes through Wednesday.

Governors Island

Stony Brook University to Spearhead Governors Island Climate Center

April 24, 2023, 9:00 a.m.April 24, 2023, 8:43 a.m.

The SUNY school on Long Island will lead a partnership of academic institutions, nonprofits and community groups to come up with climate solutions.

Higher Ed

Instructors at Fordham University Threaten to Strike

Jan. 18, 2023, 5:05 a.m.Jan. 17, 2023, 9:49 p.m.

More than 600 adjuncts and non-tenure track faculty are preparing to strike at the end of the month to demand more from the Jesuit institution with a billion-dollar endowment.

Higher Ed

Cornell Tech, Dynamo on the East River, Has Incubated More Than 100 Startups But Can It Engineer Its Own Growth?

CUNY Faculty Stage Illegal May Day Strike As Criticism Mounts Over Campus Protest Response

Columbia Locks Down Campus as Students Occupy Hamilton Hall

After NYPD Crackdowns, Campus Protests for Gaza Persist at Columbia and NYU

Dozens of Columbia Students at Pro-Palestinian Encampment Arrested by NYPD

CUNY Community Colleges in The Bronx Left Without Cafeteria Service

Shaken Yeshiva University Students Mourn and Question

Fordham Graduate Students Walk Out of Teaching to Demand a Better Contract

Stony Brook University to Spearhead Governors Island Climate Center

Instructors at Fordham University Threaten to Strike

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