Today's Clips (12/4/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Indiana’s head football coach has had a long, successful – and unconventional – career. And it all started at Davidson.

IN OTHER NEWS

The plaintiffs, white and Asian students, said they would qualify for scholarships given out by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, but for their race.

The success of efforts to turn Phoenix into a dominant center of semiconductor manufacturing may hinge on efforts to train local workers.

When 1 in 12 freshmen can’t do middle school math, that suggests America is in trouble.

The government should not treat university athletic departments like food banks.

It has been another brutal year for academic freedom. Colleges and universities have become entangled in political agendas; donors and trustees have used funding as a cudgel; and the Trump administration has withheld federal money to demand ideological compliance. America’s once-revered institutions have succumbed to intimidation, eroding the public’s confidence that they could uphold their commitments to free expression.

TRADES

Republicans held a hearing airing accusations that the prestigious program heavily favors left-leaning candidates. No one from the scholarship foundation was invited. House Republicans held a hearing Wednesday broadcasting long-standing conservative allegations of a left-wing bias in the small, prestigious Truman Scholarship program. Witnesses called by the GOP said the winners disproportionately espouse causes such as promoting racial justice and fighting climate change—and wind up working for Democrats and left-leaning organizations—while few recipients profess interest in conservative aims.

Since the end of the Great Recession, a strong job market has driven many more people to enter the work force rather than attend community college.

Archive available here: davidson-clips.ongoodbits.com
*|LIST:ADDRESS|*
Unsubscribe | View in browser