Today's Clips (1/4/24)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Sustainable Futures empowers students, educators, and communities to embrace everyday actions that support a healthier planet. Through a variety of no-cost digital resources for grades 5–10, students are given a direct connection to sustainable innovation being used to address important challenges like climate change, food waste, and carbon emissions.

How the left, not just the right, helped bring Gay down.
IN OTHER NEWS

The fate of Harvard’s president is the latest evidence of a deep crisis in American academia.

As Black women have raised their profiles, they’ve also raised some right-wing hackles.

The demagogues won’t stop with Harvard.

DEI programs have come under fire from many directions.

Conservatives can prevail in the culture wars by understanding how power works—and using it.

The resignation of Claudine Gay as Harvard president was the latest battle in a conservative war on higher education and raised questions including how the GOP might continue to pressure universities,

For universities, transparency is the way forward. Harvard mishandled the plagiarism allegations against its president Claudine Gay. Now is a time for rethinking and reform.

It took three years, and the new form rollout has still been a fiasco.

A federal judge rejected a petition for a preliminary injunction that would have prohibited West Point from considering an applicant’s race during admissions.

Legacy admission is on the wane but colleges are doubling down on early decision, another admissions practice that favor the wealthy.
TRADES

Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth announced Wednesday she would implement four “New steps for a new year” to address the challenges facing the campus amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The measures are designed to evaluate and improve systems on campus regarding student disciplinary processes, free expression and DEI programs and will include a quality-of-life survey for students and employees.

Administrators, advocates, and students are at odds over how to define and effectively fight antisemitism.

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