Today's Clips (2/10/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
If DEI can't withstand academic debate, it should wither away and die.
IN OTHER NEWS

President Trump’s executive order is altering scientific exploration across a broad swath of fields, even beyond government agencies, researchers say.

West Point leaders complied with President Trump’s D.E.I. ban by ending a dozen student clubs. Critics say the move contradicts decades of efforts to diversify the nation’s fighting force.

An NIH announcement Friday cutting billions in biomedical research, a federal funding review and DEI prohibitions have left colleges scrambling for answers.

As the Trump administration and Elon Musk seek to cut agencies such as USAID, college students worry the field they long dreamed of joining could dry up.

Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.

A video review showed the student's foot was on the half-court line, but the school said it will step in to give him the prize money.

TRADES

Federal officials said the change would save up to $4 billion. College leaders argue the cut will slow advances for millions of patients in need of critical breakthroughs. The National Institutes of Health’s plan to cut funding for colleges’ “indirect costs” of conducting medical research, which includes hazardous waste disposal, utilities and patient safety, could cost institutions billions.

Some don’t see a future in a sector battling for its very existence.

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