Today's Clips (10/25/23)
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Columbia has said it should be a space for “moral and intellectual conversations” about the Israel-Hamas war, but as those conversations harden, the choice may affect its finances.

‘You can’t fire seven hundred Harvard students. It would be a scandal.’

Oregon State University officials say a person suspected of threatening to place a bomb in a robot that delivers food orders on campus has been arrested

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Monday became the latest notable figure to pull back from Harvard after student groups there signed a statement blaming Israel for the deadly attacks by Hamas earlier this month.

The Supreme Court’s decision to limit the use of race in admissions was a game-changer for colleges. While the ruling's biggest impact is on the most selective schools, a survey found nearly a quarter of all colleges considered race to some degree before the pandemic. Special correspondent Hari Sreenivasan looks at how some schools are reevaluating admissions for our series, Rethinking College.

Universities can either make changes out of enlightened self-interest, or else unpredictable changes will be forced upon them.

TRADES

The Education Department strengthens its oversight of institutions with a sweeping set of rules finalized this week. A federal policy change could give thousands of students access to transcripts and academic credits their colleges have withheld because they owed the institutions money. The new rule, part of a broad package of regulations the U.S.

It’s not that they don’t care, but many feel ill-equipped and stretched too thin.

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