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Colson Whitehead cancels UMass Amherst commencement speech over "shameful" protest arrests
CBS News· 5 days agoAuthor Colson Whitehead will no longer be the keynote speaker for the University of Massachusetts ...
UMass Amherst commencement speaker withdraws after police arrest campus protesters - The Boston...
The Boston Globe· 6 days agoColson Whitehead, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who was slated to deliver a keynote speech at...
Colson Whitehead Cancels His Commencement Speech at UMass Amherst
New York Times· 6 days agoThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead said Thursday that he would not give the...
How Mass. colleges responded to student protest encampments
WBUR Boston· 7 hours agoThe pro-Palestinian protest encampments that cropped up at many Massachusetts colleges over the past...
Virginia Commonwealth University students walk out of graduation
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSome commencement speakers have also withdrawn, like author Colson Whitehead, who said he would no...
UMass commencement speaker cancels; Police break up MIT encampment
WCAX-TV Vermont· 5 days agoPulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead has pulled out of giving the commencement address at...
Duke students walk out to protest Jerry Seinfeld's commencement speech in latest grad disruption
The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLast week, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead backed out of his planned speech at the ...
Police clear pro-Palestinian protest camp and arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor’s hearing is canceled
WPRI Providence· 7 days agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Police used pepper spray to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George...
For first time in decade, public state colleges including Worcester State see enrollment increase
Gannett via AOL· 1 day agoFor instance, of the students registered at UMass Amherst in the fall of 2023, only 67.5% were...
UMass chancellor defends protest crackdown, arrests
Daily Hampshire Gazette· 18 hours agoUniversity of Massachusetts Chancellor Javier Reyes defended the arrests of 134 people at a campus pro-Palestinian ...