Today's Clips (5/20/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Stephen Curry, a star player for the NBA Golden State Warriors who is from the Charlotte area, is partnering with Kentucky's Boone County Distilling on a new bourbon, Gentleman's Cut.

Elementary school teacher Cynthia Campbell's legacy will be the WJCC strings program and the many students she inspired to embrace music.
IN OTHER NEWS

The justices will soon rule on race-conscious admissions plans at Harvard and U.N.C. A new appeals court case asks whether schools can use race-neutral tools to achieve racial diversity.

If requested, the Common App will conceal basic information on race and ethnicity — a move that could help schools if the Supreme Court ends affirmative action.

It’s the latest state to defund diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

A case involving a graduate student and her art history professor illustrates the tangled state of sexual power dynamics in Japan.

Even if the Supreme Court rules against using race in college admissions, some schools plan to ignore it.

The share of young people seeking higher education slipped to 62% last year from 66.2% in 2019, before the pandemic began.

As the Supreme Court decides the fate of affirmative action, most people in the U.S. say the court should allow consideration of race as part of the admissions process. Yet few believe students’ race should play a significant role in those decisions. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 63% say the Supreme Court should not stop colleges from considering race or ethnicity in their admission systems. The poll shows little divide along political or racial lines. But people were more likely to say grades and standardized test scores should be significant factors.

TRADES

ChatGPT is just the beginning. Twelve scholars and administrators explain.

Informal negotiations over how to expand the Pell Grant to job-training programs have begun but lawmakers face uphill challenge in getting a bill through Congress. With three different bills proposed that would allow students to use the Pell Grant for short-term programs of fewer than 15 weeks, the current minimum, momentum is building on the issue, and House lawmakers are beginning to talk about it informally. But muscling any legislation through this Congress will be difficult, advocates and lobbyists say.

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