semester
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Hampshire College will permanently close after the coming fall semester, after financial struggles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
This time along with Rossen Ventzislavov, an educator who brought me out to Woodbury University last spring as a fellow to teach a one-of-a-kind semester on Black modernism in architecture, design and popular culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
My dad said, `No, Mr. Wahl, I’ve got to pay $855.53 for that boy’s semester.’
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
Last semester, the college suspended its campus newspaper, the Defender, which published for 80 years, in part because not enough students had taken the course required to work on the paper.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
By the end of the semester the world felt big, and it was hard to imagine returning to the mountain, to a kitchen, or even to a piano in the room next to the kitchen.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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