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• Apr 08 | Reuters | 1.3K Engagements: “A former University of Southern California water polo coach was convicted on Friday on charges he accepted more than $200,000 in bribes to help children get into the school as fake athletic recruits in the latest trial to result from the U.S. college admissions scandal.”

• Apr 13 | The Chalkboard Review | 52 Engagements: “Following the initial outrage of Anderson University’s racially-segregated sessions and the “doubling down” by many in the A.U. administration, Commissioner Peter Kirsanow of the United States Commission on Civil Rights cited such discrimination as a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ”

• Apr 08 | Dawg Post | 211 Engagements: “Georgia Bulldogs defensive lineman Warren Brinson was arrested Thursday night by the Clarke County Sheriff’s Department on misdemeanor simple battery charges. Brinson was released on two $1,500 bonds just after midnight Friday morning. UGA has not released a statement regarding the matter.”

• Apr 09 | WSVN | 185 Engagements: “A University of Miami Hurricanes linebacker has been suspended following a domestic violence arrest. Nineteen-year-old Deshawn Troutman was taken into custody on March 22 and charged with misdemeanor battery, according to an arrest report obtained by The Miami Herald.”

• Apr 13 | Jacobin | 321 Engagements: “Indiana University graduate workers began an unusual recognition strike today in hopes of compelling the school’s administration to recognize their union. Jacobin spoke with one of the strikers about how this came about and what happens next.”

• Apr 06 | Twitter | Steven Greenhouse | 213 Retweets: “Breaking -- In another big win for labor, grad student workers at MIT vote overwhelmingly to unionize -- 1,785 for a union to 912 against With the university opposing unionization, the 4-year-long effort begun by a dozen students wins in a landslide vote”

• Apr 11 | Cincinnati | 209 Engagements: “Miami University provost resigns as faculty moves toward unionizing”

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• Apr 06 | Twitter | Code of Vets | 9.8K Retweets: “I am not responsible for your student debt. I grew up in poverty in NC. Ate from a garden, name was on community Angel tree for Christmas, bought clothes from yard sales & if I was lucky, on a rare occasion Sky City. I joined the Air Force then went to college. I made it happen.”

• Apr 11 | Twitter | Bernie Sanders | 3.3K Retweets: “If 700 U.S. billionaires could become nearly $2 trillion richer during the pandemic and Trump could provide over $1 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1% and profitable corporations, please don't tell me we can't cancel all $1.8 trillion in student debt for 45 million Americans.”

• Apr 06 | Twitter | Esther Hopkins | 271 Retweets: “I am honestly trying to understand why many people are only listening to MSM and not reading Scientific studies on #COVID19 that prove it is a risk. These are all from excellent sources: Nature, Harvard, Johns Hopkins etc. We don't want Covid to be a risk but it's a reality.”

• Apr 08 | Twitter | Matt Dowell | 138 Retweets: “Professors are reporting poor attendance, low engagement, and worrisome degrees of student disengagement. So what are the highly-paid college and university leaders doing in response? Hell, they decided the pandemic was over. So this is the new, ignored normal?”

• Apr 13 | Axios | 3K Engagements: “University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, who has a history of making inflammatory and racist statements, is drawing public ire again. In an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson last week, she said "non-Western peoples," and specifically Black Americans, harbor resentment and shame over Western achievements.”

• Apr 11 | Twitter | Elie Mystal | 586 Retweets: “Putting up the @atlblog signal but, really, NONE OF THIS WILL STOP until students of color stop matriculating to @pennlaw and donors stop giving money to help fund this professor who has been openly racist for decades.”

• Apr 08 | Leo Terrell | 212 Engagements: The University of California (UC) system is set to implement new guidelines that will force all potential applicants to first take an ethnic studies or “anti-racist” course in high school prior to applying. The University will make ‘Anti-Racist’ Education a Prerequisite for Admission.

• Apr 11 | Twitter | UCLA UGSP | 149 Retweets: “We are excited to share that after two years of student advocacy, the @UCLA Department of Psychology will no longer be requiring the GRE for admission to its PhD programs this fall and moving forward!! #GRExit”

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• Apr 06 | Twitter | Barack Obama | 837 Retweets: “It was great catching up with our latest class of @UChicago Obama Foundation Scholars. They’ve been working hard to improve their communities, and I’m looking forward to following their journeys.”

• Apr 09 | The Daily Mail | 245 Engagements: “A University of Chicago student who called out CNN analyst Brian Stelter on disinformation in viral back-and-forth during a forum is speaking out about the now-viral back-and-forth. Christopher Phillips told Fox News' Tucker Carlson about how he had asked the left-wing pundit about his ongoing criticisms of Fox News. The freshman added that he called out CNN for spreading disinformation about the Trump-Russia probe, Nicholas Sandmann, and 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett.”

• Apr 09 | CBS Sports | 216K Engagements: “Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins, a standout at Ohio State and former first-round pick of the Washington Commanders, died Saturday, CBS Sports NFL Insider Josina Anderson confirms. He was 24.”

• Apr 09 | Twitter | Andrew Lind | 1.4K Retweets: “Consider this my petition to have Ohio State wear a helmet decal honoring Dwayne Haskins during next week's spring game – and quite possibly the entire 2022 season”

• Apr 07 | Fox 5 | 195 Engagements: “The University of San Diego has found their next head men’s basketball coach in Steve Lavin, according to school officials.”

• Apr 11 | Twitter | Nathanael Rutherford | 416 Retweets: “Wow. According to a University of Tennessee release, Tennessee is now only the 2nd Division 1 program EVER to reach No. 1 in football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, and softball. The only other D1 program to do so is the other UT, the Texas Longhorns.”

• Apr 10 | Twitter | Houston Kress | 102 Retweets: “The best start in the history of EVER for SEC Baseball belongs to YOUR Tennessee Volunteers. How sweet it is!”

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• Apr 09 | Twitter | David Gardner | 11.6K Retweets: “RIP to Dwayne Haskins. He said he was gonna go to Ohio State the first time he stepped foot on campus as a little kid. And he became a Buckeye legend.”

• Apr 09 | Twitter | Adam Schefter | 4.2K Retweets: “Dwayne Haskins, a standout at Ohio State before becoming Washington’s first-round pick and playing in Pittsburgh, died this morning when he got hit by a car in South Florida, per his agent Cedric Saunders. Haskins would have turned 25 years old on May 3.”

• Apr 07 | Twitter | Kaivan Shroff | 4.9K Retweets: “Reminder that Ted Cruz and Justice Jackson were classmates at Harvard Law. He is so so jealous of her.”

• Apr 11 | BET | 4.1K Engagements: “Stephen L. Ball has been appointed Harvard Law School’s new dean of students, making history as the first Black man to serve in that role.”

• Apr 09 | Los Angeles Times | 1.4K Engagements: “A beloved USC custodian was accused of theft and fired. The campus is rallying behind her”

• Apr 08 | NBC News | 985 Engagements: “A Boston jury on Friday convicted a former University of Southern California water polo coach on all charges connected to his role in a massive college admissions scam, ending a far-reaching prosecution that rocked higher education.”

• Apr 11 | 247 Sports | 664 Engagements: “Florida center Colin Castleton will return to school for his super senior season, the big man announced on his Twitter account on Monday morning.”

• Apr 09 | 247 Sports | 607 Engagements: “After Florida’s first scrimmage of the spring on March 31, head coach Billy Napier offered a relatively disenchanted outlook about the Gators’ lack of viable reinforcements beyond their first-team players, stating that the program’s onlookers can expect it to be “very aggressive in the portal this spring.””