Today's Clips (5/9/24)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
USA TODAY found at least nine colleges that closed down only to be resurrected online. Their operators are a mystery but they're taking applications.
IN OTHER NEWS

I don’t think the protests are antisemitic. But they undercut the only fair and just solution to the war.

You are my daily reminder of what my Zionism is for, about and against.

Colleges cannot accede to student protesters’ demands that they jettison investments because of the war in Gaza.

More than 40 people were arrested Monday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a crime, according to the police department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

For many new college graduates, the job market is bleak even though the unemployment rate is low.

A highly organized left is targeting the takeover and ruin of liberal institutions and cities.

College faculty members said they’ve felt a duty to support their students during pro-Palestinian protests even as they’ve faced arrests and suspensions.

The backlash to Israel protests has been intense, aggressive and almost entirely wrongheaded.

A close look at the words being shouted at protests on campuses across the country reveals why some see the pro-Palestinian cause as so threatening.

Bureaucratic bloat has siphoned power away from instructors and researchers.

Five-day encampment in university grounds that caused the college major loss of income ended in victory for campaigners

One big change is helping the 49ers join schools like Duke, UNC Chapel Hill and NC State.

The organization’s co-president said the ordeal has been ‘extremely discouraging.’

TRADES

Campus speech, the FAFSA debacle and enrollment woes dominated discussions at a panel event that questioned higher ed’s status quo after a year of compounding crises. WASHINGTON, D.C.—One moderator introduced her panel at the Gallup and Lumina Foundation’s annual State of Higher Education event on Wednesday by reflecting on higher ed’s “tumultuous year.” But the issues that defined the conversations throughout the day, and which seem poised to have a significant impact on the sector moving forward, were two ongoing crises: the pro-Palestinian student protests and the range of administrative responses they’ve provoked, and the bungled rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) form.

An interview with Irene Mulvey, president of the AAUP, about recent campus crackdowns on protesters.

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