Today's Clips (4/14/25)
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IN OTHER NEWS

It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

The administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives.

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

With the new literature course I’m teaching at the University of Colorado, I’m aiming to find out.

Nico Iamaleava, one of the sport’s highest paid quarterbacks, skipped practice in an attempt to get a raise. The tactic was borrowed straight from the NFL.

International students say they are deleting social media, keeping their views to themselves and staying on campus to avoid being deported.

An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.

Cracks are starting to appear in the federal financial aid apparatus after the Trump administration imposed sweeping staff cuts at the Education Department last month.

The resignation of John Adams comes after the board, without public explanation, voted not to extend the tenure of the school’s first Black superintendent.

Many students nationwide say the Trump administration's efforts to address what it calls antisemitism on college campuses have had a chilling effect on speech and political activity.

TRADES

The administration wants “comprehensive admissions reform” at colleges. It’s unclear what that means or how it would be enforced, but pressure to avoid scrutiny could affect admissions practices. Last month the government cut $400 million in federal funding for Columbia University and sent a list of demands the university would have to meet to get it back. Among them: “deliver a plan for comprehensive admission reform.”

The arrangement would put a federal judge in charge of overseeing the university’s commitments to fight antisemitism. In doing so, it could lock in Trump’s preferred policies for the longer haul.

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