Since President Donald Trump took office Jan. 20, he has followed through on his campaign promises to crack down on immigration, rapidly expanding detention efforts and visa revocations.
"This is the first arrest of many to come,” Trump wrote in a March 10 Truth Social...
Northeastern’s Office of Global Services, or OGS, sent an email to international students April 6 warning of the mounting threat of visa revocations after “approximately” 40 Northeastern students’ and graduates’ visas were terminated.
In the email, OGS warned students...
Updated Monday, April 7 at 10:00 p.m.
As of April 7, the State Department has revoked 40 visas of people affiliated with Northeastern, including 18 current students and 22 alumni, according to Northeastern Vice President for Communications Renata Nyul.
Northeastern has...
More than 3,050 people, including 27 affiliated with Northeastern, have signed on to a public statement dated March 11 denouncing the Trump administration’s push to combat what it calls antisemitism on college campuses by detaining international students, professors and staff...
Megan Moffat, a fifth-year behavioral neuroscience major, watched the Jan. 20 inauguration live. When President Donald Trump announced in his speech that he would only recognize two genders, they collapsed.
“My partner just covered me as I sat there in silence and mourned,”...
An email sent to Northeastern community members March 26 warned of immigration restrictions following a nationwide crackdown on non-citizens who have participated in activism on college campuses.
Upon taking office Jan. 20, President Donald Trump signed an executive order...
Amid nationwide hiring freezes and slowdowns spurred by the Trump administration’s efforts to slash federal spending, Northeastern has "considerably" slowed its hiring, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs David Madigan said at a March 12 faculty senate meeting.
Since...
Breghilyn Cheska Bagalso, a second-year biology major on the hunt for her first co-op, applied to the Sabatini Lab at Harvard Medical School, a renowned neurobiology research laboratory.
But after her interview with the lab, Bagalso received an email March 19 stating no one...
The Department of Education, or Education Department, announced March 11 that it plans to cut nearly half of its employees, taking its total staff from around 4,133 workers to 2,183, a move that will likely have direct impacts on federally funded education in the United States.
The...
The federal government issued a FAQ Feb. 28 outlining how it will enforce its order for educational institutions to eliminate race-based programs.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, issued the FAQ as a follow-up to its Feb. 14 “Dear Colleague"...
Under the directive of President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued a “Dear Colleague” letter Feb. 14 to all educational institutions in the country receiving federal funding, which includes public K-12 schools and higher education...
A Northeastern professor called on university leadership to more forcefully respond to the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration in an open letter to the university community Feb. 22, the first such letter at Northeastern since Trump took office last month and...
