Today's Clips (4/23/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

At least some NC college leaders are willing to publicly rebuke Trump | Opinion

A letter signed by leaders of dozens of schools including several in North Carolina said political interference is endangering higher education.

Davidson Commissioners have their eye on a piece of town-owned land for a future Red Line stop.

IN OTHER NEWS

The statement came a day after Harvard University sued the administration over its decision to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding, following the school’s refusal to submit to a list of demands.

Harvard frantically tried to avoid a showdown with the Trump administration. Now many of its big donors are pushing the university’s leaders to back down and renew talks with the White House.

Harvard’s lawyers suggest the administration was sloppy when it froze billions in federal funding. A mundane but crucial law is essential to the university’s case against the government.

Princeton, Harvard and Brown are among the schools issuing debt.

Trump might lose this legal fight, and there are better ways to reduce subsidies to schools.

Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student detained by ICE last week, had made Vermont his home.

The NCAA has passed rules that would upend decades of precedent by allowing colleges to pay their athletes per terms of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit settlement expected to go into effect this summer.

Here’s what search warrants reveal about the investigation that led to the teen’s arrest.

Atul Gawande, a writer, a surgeon, and a former U.S.A.I.D. official, on what’s at stake in the Trump Administration’s attacks on Harvard and other universities.

TRADES

Limestone University’s board was set to decide whether to close or go online Tuesday. Instead the university announced a possible financial lifeline was in the works. Limestone University will live on—at least for now—after the Board of Trustees punted on a decision Tuesday to either close the institution or shift entirely online. Instead, university officials announced that a “possible funding source” had surfaced.

Where can we go from here?

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