Today's Clips (11/21/24)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Collaboration uses spoken word and music to celebrate neighborhood
IN OTHER NEWS

Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.

Artificial intelligence is going to eliminate a lot of jobs in the future. It’s possible to reduce the risk that it will be yours.

At UNC Charlotte, the university’s mission statement will no longer state that the university “is a diverse and inclusive institution.”

Students whose families make less than $100,000 annually get free tuition and waived fees at any of the academic universities in the University of Texas...

MIT tuition was $57,986 for the 2022-2023 school year, which is higher than the average for four-year private institutions in the U.S.

TRADES

A comprehensive new study found that the socioeconomic makeup of highly selective colleges is roughly the same as it was a century ago, even as access to higher education has exploded. The proportion of low- and middle-income students at highly selective colleges was the same in 2013 as it was 1923, despite a massive expansion in broad college access. During that century, the college-going rate for Americans skyrocketed from 10 percent to more than 60 percent. But no historical development, from the GI Bill to the introduction of standardized testing, meaningfully changed the socioeconomic makeup of elite institutions.

The politicization of research, hiring, and teaching made professors sitting ducks.

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