Today's Clips (4/15/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Raiders standout Maxx Crosby has been named assistant GM for the Eastern Michigan football program, where he'll help with the NIL budget and evaluate prospective players.

IN OTHER NEWS

Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

Federal officials said they would freeze the money after Harvard said it would not submit to requests to overhaul hiring and report international students who break rules.

But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a crime.

A new task force formed to combat antisemitism is using funding threats to force broader changes on campus.

TRADES

In excerpts from our members-only weekly newsletter The Sandbox, higher ed leaders—writing anonymously—discuss the myriad challenges of the job under Trump 2.0. Harvard University made headlines yesterday for refusing to acquiesce to the Trump administration’s lengthy list of demands, issued as a kind of ransom to be paid in exchange for the release of $9 billion in federal research funds.

The history scholar explains why it matters that there’s been a spike in students graduating with Latin honors.

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