higher ed

Nationally, college enrollment has more or less recovered since Covid-related declines. But New York's public colleges and universities aren't quite there yet.

Graduate student workers held a protest at Binghamton University last Wednesday. The protest came a day after a visit to the university by new SUNY chancellor, John King.

"[The ruling], especially, is making me not want to go far away from here," said 11th grader Samantha Kager. "Especially if I can't have free choice of what I want to do with my own body."

The city's Common Council plans to vote next week on an ordinance that would make it more difficult for other states to investigate abortions in Ithaca.

Some students and professors at Binghamton University held a rally last week in support of sociology professor Ana Maria Candela, who came under fire recently for an affirmative action policy on her syllabus.

Cornish served as interim president since last summer after Dr. Shirley Collado stepped down.