Mark Skousen’s op-ed “Obama’s Alma Mater Sacks its Only Free-Market Professor” (Aug. 13) unfairly attacks Occidental College and its economics department. I can’t go into the particulars of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Student workers at Occidental College who say they’re grappling with low wages, inconsistent hours and job insecurity rallied for better working conditions ...

Occidental College will no longer give admissions preference to children of alumni, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action. “In the past, an applicant’s familial relationship to ...

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Occidental College will discontinue its football program, President Harry J. Elam Jr. announced Tuesday, ending three years of deliberations about its future that ultimately was affected by the ...

Occidental College students continued to occupy an administration building for a third day Wednesday, demanding the college take a series of actions to improve campus diversity. Student protesters ...

Racist text messages from one Occidental College student to another—including one declaring, “all Asian people need to die”—have created a firestorm at the private liberal arts college, with many ...

In 2017, Jaime Hoffman, the openly gay athletic director at Eagle Rock’s Occidental College, became the focus of the football team’s wrath after the administration decided to cancel the season in ...

An 18-year-old Jewish student in her freshman year at Occidental College in Los Angeles said she will not return for the spring semester because much of the student body and faculty began expressing ...