Recent higher ed headlines have focused on stories about donors pulling their gifts from Ivy League schools. Yet, many colleges are still receiving record-setting gifts.
Loyola University Maryland said it had ties to an 1838 sale of enslaved people orchestrated by Jesuit priests. Money from the sale was also used to pay off debt at Georgetown University.
The question of whether college athletes should be employees looms over the conversation about setting a national standard on name, image and likeness rights. “People should be careful what they wish for,” a softball player testified Thursday. A House subcommittee is moving forward on a bill that would create national rules of the road to rein in the growing name, image and likeness “Wild West” in college sports.