Today's Clips (1/19/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

What are the words for bacteria and DNA in the Diné language?They are ch’osh doo yit’íinii and iiná bitł’óól, respectively.Project Enable, an online dictionary resource that launched in 2021, has done the work to provide not just one translation but 250 scientific terms and concepts from English into Navajo.

Charlotte Conservatory Theatre, the Queen City's newest professional performing arts company, has announced their second production, Selina Fillinger's recent Broadway smash POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.

IN OTHER NEWS

An economist who runs the London School of Economics, Dr. Shafik will take over as higher education faces tumult over cost, free speech and a likely end to affirmative action.

In Kota, students from across the country pay steep fees to be tutored for elite-college admissions exams — which most of them will fail.

The university had been under attack for pressuring students in crisis to withdraw instead of providing ways to help them to remain on campus.

Universities thrive when administrators and state officials respect the expertise of faculty and students.

Fidelity Investments has committed $250 million to help up to 50,000 Black, Latino and other historically underserved students attend college.

An art professor has sued a university in Minnesota for firing her after she showed students a 14th-century painting depicting the prophet Muhammad.

TRADES

Many states ended the last fiscal year with record surpluses. Colleges and universities are vying for a piece of the pie—though for most the chances of securing a large slice are slim.

That remarkable statement comes as the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has opened a new offensive against what he describes as “trendy ideology” in higher education.

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