Today's Clips (3/24/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Chris Marsicano, a professor at Davidson College in North Carolina whose research focuses on how higher education institutions impact government policy, said claims that conservatives are penalized academically at colleges are largely overblown.

See who a bracketologist is predicting will make it to the Final Four in the 2025 NCAA men's Division I basketball tournament.

Davidson College student fights for her free speech rights.

Flannery is happy to point out the best in his former players, but he also doesn't shy away from the areas they could improve on.

The winningest coach in program history has accepted a position to become the associate head men's basketball coach at Campbell University.

The former Davidson swimmer turned in five lifetime best performances and qualified for finals in two events at the Columbia Sectionals last weekend.

IN OTHER NEWS

The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.

The university betrayed its Jewish students—and its core mission—and is now paying the price.

From unlimited loans for grad students to tax-free municipal bonds, schools are subsidized like crazy.

Linda McMahon’s remarks came after the university conceded to Trump administration demands, including on protest policies and some Middle Eastern studies.

Harvard University is eliminating tuition fees for students from families with incomes of $200,000 or less, attempting to broaden access to the school at a time when elite universities are under attack from the White House and lawmakers.

America’s most prestigious colleges are rushing to the debt market at the fastest pace on record, locking in financing while they can to pay for campus projects or refinance debt against a backdrop of tax and funding threats.

University leaders say canceling the program would infringe on students’ free speech rights.

TRADES

The administration, which wants to close the Education Department, hasn’t said how it would move the $1.7 trillion portfolio to a new agency. Democrats say doing so would be a “clear violation” of the law. A day after White House officials said the Education Department would administer the student loan program, President Donald Trump announced that the Small Business Administration would be taking over the $1.7 trillion portfolio.

The possibility became more real on Friday, when Columbia University agreed to make changes in response to a letter from the Trump administration.

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