Tulane University

Kim Terrell, a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, resigned Wednesday, saying in a letter the university had sacrificed academic integrity for political expediency.

Fourteen international students at Louisiana universities have had their permission to attend school in the United States revoked by the Trump administration.

One of the students facing discipline was also briefly detained in a separate incident after leaving their backpack unattended on campus with a sign attached to it criticizing the university’s moves away from DEI policies.

Tulane, a private university in New Orleans, is alleged to use “race-exclusionary practices in their graduate programs,” according to a media release from the U.S. Department of Education.

Carson Cruse was supposed to graduate from Loyola this semester; he’s suspended. Juleea Berthelot has been on disciplinary probation for the last nine months.

Khalil is being held at an ICE facility in Jena, Louisiana, according to the agency’s detainee tracker.

Last spring, that momentum came to a head on April 22, when students and alumni filed a legal complaint, calling on the state attorney general to investigate whether Tulane’s investments in the fossil fuel industry violate Louisiana’s Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA).

Fourteen people arrested earlier this year during protests at Tulane University over the Israel-Hamas war were acquitted on misdemeanor criminal charges Friday in New Orleans.

President Joe Biden visited Tulane University on Tuesday and announced $150 million in federal funding for eight cancer research teams across the country.

In Louisiana, few people of color are getting high-paying jobs in the industry — or even low-paying ones