Today's Clips (12/11/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

NC politician and NC superstar athlete will have highway interchanges named for them.

An interchange in Davidson, North Carolina will be renamed after Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry.

A section of Interstate 77 in Davidson will be named after NBA star Steph Curry after all.

IN OTHER NEWS

Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president, faced rising pressure after her answers to questions about antisemitism. Some faculty members signed a petition supporting her.

The proper response to censorship is not more censorship.

Republicans have been attacking elite universities for years. After a tense congressional hearing last week, many on the left are joining them.

Antisemitism is one example of a much deeper rot on campus.

How do we reverse a culture of intimidation without violating commitments to academic freedom and free speech?

Free speech has been elevated to a near-sacred level on university campuses. That was a mistake.

It’s a rhetorical question that suggests climate-change catastrophists have become a religious sect.

TRADES

Non-need-based merit aid has surged in the past decade, especially at struggling public institutions looking to boost enrollment. Some say it’s an unacknowledged equity issue. Merit scholarships are widely seen as exactly what their name suggests: financial awards institutions dole out to deserving students based on proven academic achievement. But a growing chorus of scholars and higher ed experts believes that deepening enrollment challenges have turned those scholarships into something else entirely: tuition discounts colleges use to lure students away from the competition.

Kevin M. Guskiewicz was named Michigan State University’s new president, creating a leadership vacuum in the politically charged University of North Carolina system.

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