Today's Clips (2/28/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Educators at North Carolina's Davidson College say a tax hike on endowments could affect student aid.

An unvaccinated child has died as the Texas measles outbreak reaches 124 cases. Public health officials also warn of potential spread in San Marcos and San Antonio.

IN OTHER NEWS

If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.

The language in the listing included terms — like “settler colonialism,” “apartheid” and “genocide” — that Jewish groups said were offensive when applied to Israel.

The demonstrators, who were protesting the expulsions of two students, assaulted a campus employee, sending the worker to the hospital, a Barnard College spokeswoman said.

Schools are trying to teach fans restraint to avoid big fines. It’s a work in progress.

The new Appalachian State University chancellor knows the university “from top to bottom,” the UNC System president says.

The policy sets minimum requirements that all 17 campuses in the system must implement by Aug. 1.

Effectively immediately, race will no longer be considered as a factor in admissions decisions. In fact, to ensure we don’t promote equal access to education by accident, only applicants named “Bradford” will be admitted to the college.

TRADES

The Hope Center’s most recent basic needs survey shows while a majority of respondents lacked essentials, including food and housing, fewer than half engaged with institutional supports to mitigate these challenges. Despite a growing national focus on student basic needs insecurity and its impact on retention and completion, a majority of learners in need have not accessed public benefits or resources from their college or university to address deficiencies.

The Office of Civil Rights’ guidance would have a “devastating” effect on professors’ efforts to provide viewpoint diversity and equal opportunity in the classroom, the plaintiffs argue.

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