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Florida recently overtook New York as the nation’s third-largest state. With a booming population of 22 million and growing, the Sunshine State is making considerable investments in its public institutions of higher learning, while private universities are also seeing surging enrollment. Here is a look at some of the top universities in Florida based on enrollment rates. FLORIDA PERMANENTLY BANS …

Tennessee teachers and staff will be allowed to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds under legislation signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee on Friday. Lee, a Republican, had announced his support for the proposal just the day before while flanked by top Republican legislative leaders who had helped shepherd the bill through the GOP-dominant General Assembly. “What’s important …

WARNING: GRAPHIC The family of a 14-year-old Kentucky girl says one of her female classmates brutally assaulted her with a “metal tumbler” on a school bus earlier this month. Emma Filback, a freshman with autism at Franklin Simpson High School, was riding the school bus on April 18 when “she was attacked by another female high school student who hit …

A new president has been named for McNeese State University in southwest Louisiana. The University of Louisiana System announced Thursday that Wade Rousse will succeed Daryl Burckel, who announced in December that he was stepping down after seven years. LOUISIANA DEMOCRATIC PARTY SELECTS NEW CHAIRMAN Rousse currently serves as the university’s executive vice president. He has worked at the university …

A provost at a Missouri university has been appointed Indiana State University’s new president, officials at the western Indiana school announced Friday. Dr. Michael “Mike” Godard will become ISU’s president on June 1, replacing current President Deborah J. Curtis, who is retiring after serving as the school’s leader since 2018, school officials said. MCNEESE STATE EVP IS NAMED LOUISIANA SCHOOL’S …

As students chanted “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free,” Jewish students spoke with Fox News Digital about the antisemitism and extreme anger they have experienced on campus during this week’s protests. Hundreds of protesters gathered on campus at the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday to participate in an unruly anti-Israel protest that included “significant …

The Columbia University student who discussed “murdering Zionists” was “banned from campus” Friday, according to a university spokesperson. Junior Khymani James expressed “regret” early Friday after he went viral online for previously suggesting people should be “grateful” he wasn’t “murdering Zionists,” whom he likened to “White supremacists” and “Nazis.” Without explicitly mentioning what they were, James copped to inflammatory comments …

New York Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman, both members of “The Squad,” were seen Friday mingling with anti-Israel agitators at Columbia University, where “support” was offered to those in the encampment established to protest the Israeli military’s actions in Gaza. In one video shared on social media, a smiling Ocasio-Cortez is shown speaking with those inside the encampment …

The ongoing anti-Israel demonstrations at elite U.S. colleges and universities are exactly what happened in Germany in the 1920s, just years before Nazis took over the country, according to the head of the Holocaust museum. Dani Dayan, the chairman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, wrote a letter to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik on Friday, April 26, …

Calls are mounting to temporarily shutter schools plagued by anti-Israel unrest as most colleges continue to pursue a hands-off approach to the encampments — even as the vitriol increasingly includes explicit threats of violence against Jews and others who don’t support the metastasizing movement. “Columbia should shut down campus entirely, take all learning remote, but also padlock the campus and …