Lesley University’s faculty gave President Janet Steinmayer a second no-confidence vote, and one for the school’s board of trustees as well.

Years after Cambridge’s police commissioner cited a need for fundamental improvements to the traditional policing model, the city’s two police departments are receiving increasingly urgent calls for reform.

Before she became a presidential aide, Kellyanne Conway was a footnote in a long-running saga in Cambridge criminal justice: She sold her polling services to Harvard grad student Alexander Pring-Wilson, accused in the 2003 stabbing death of a teen.

A Harvard University official sparked a viral outcry last summer when she made condescending comments to a neighbor, a young mother tending to her mixed-race toddler. Cambridge spent nearly $14,000 on workshops, but Harvard’s response looks lacking.