Today's Clips (5/14/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Bakari Sellers' book, "My Vanishing Country," is marketed as a Southern peer to JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy." It was pulled from the Naval Academy library.

The Davidson Wildcats have added the Greensboro College Pride to their 2025 football schedule, according to their official athletics website.

IN OTHER NEWS

Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs.

The latest broadside from the federal government comes as Harvard faces multiple investigations from across the Trump administration.

The university expanded its ongoing suit after the Trump administration said it would stop issuing grants to the school and promised to take another $450 million.

As President Trump guts American research institutions, world leaders see a “once-in-a-century brain gain opportunity.”

Too many instructors at Harvard, Columbia and elsewhere are less interested in teaching and more interested in student indoctrination.

Learn more in The N&O’s higher education newsletter about the programs across the UNC System that are being allowed to continue requiring DEI classwork.

As AI use becomes routine in higher education and the workplace, rather than expelling students for using it, colleges should teach students to become effective and responsible users of the technologies their future employers will expect them to know.

TRADES

Colleges have scrapped affinity graduation celebrations as Trump targets DEI and state bans take effect, but new traditions may be starting. As soon as the fraternity brothers of Epsilon Chi, the University of Kentucky chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation’s oldest historically Black fraternity, heard that the university was canceling its annual celebration of Black graduates, they jumped into action.

We must stand up to Trump’s reactionary arsonists.

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