Inside the Columbia Grad Student Union’s Fight for a ‘Sanctuary Campus.’ Plus, Wisconsin’s Chief Diversity Officer Gets the Axe.

Sanctuary city, meet sanctuary campus: Student Workers of Columbia, the Ivy League school’s graduate student union that boasts roughly 3,000 members, is in active contract negotiations with university administrators. At the same time, it’s demanding those administrators establish a “sanctuary campus” to protect foreign Hamasniks. The university’s response will provide another test of its backbone.

Judge Temporarily Blocks EPA From Canceling Climate Grants

EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said he will not rest ‘until these hard-earned taxpayer dollars are returned to the U.S. Treasury.’ A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from terminating grants that were part of a $20 billion climate funding program created by the previous administration. In a 23-page ruling, U.S. District