Today's Clips (5/6/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Over 600 leaders of universities and colleges recently signed a statement for “constructive engagement” as the result of conflict between the government and higher education. Particularly concerning are cuts in funding for research, student visa status and DEI. On the next Charlotte Talks, we hear from Davidson College President Doug Hicks about the pressures facing educational institutions.
IN OTHER NEWS

We don’t need to revive the old shop class, but we do need to bolster funding for career and technical education.

With settlement on system to pay college athletes near, lawyer criticizes Saban for “eleventh-hour self importance.”

As Harvard University does battle with the Trump administration, its president, Alan Garber, speaks with The Wall Street Journal.

Section 501(c)(3) bars campaigning and makes clear propaganda isn’t the same as education.

The government has presented the Ivy League school with a proposal for a consent decree.

The administration invoked rules that allow the government to shut off the federal student-loan spigot for specific schools if too many of their former students have lapsed on payments, according to a notice the Education Department is expected to send out Monday, which was seen by The Wall Street Journal.

The billionaire investor said it’s time for a change in leadership at the Ivy League school.

Harvard University will receive no new federal grants until it meets a series of demands from President Donald Trump’s administration, the Education Department announced Monday.

A good life and a good society require an ongoing search for understanding and knowledge.

TRADES

The Trump administration has canceled close to $3 billion in NIH and NSF research grants, often without much explanation. Now researchers are crowdsourcing databases of suspended grants to shed light on what’s being lost. The federal government has terminated thousands of grants it deemed unworthy of scientific study in the months since President Donald Trump started his second term. But scholars still aren’t clear why or how the government made those determinations.

However it’s settled, the dispute will have profound implications for the institution — and higher ed as a whole. Here are the arguments to watch for.

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