Today's Clips (7/8/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Earlier this year dozens of higher education leaders signed a letter entitled "A Call for Constructive Engagement."

Old North State Politics contributors Michael Bitzer, Chris Cooper, and Susan Roberts consider Republican US Senator Thom Tillis' decision to not seek re-ele...

On the shores of Lake Norman is a town whose appeal has continued to reach new heights since the pandemic years.

IN OTHER NEWS

Jewish and Israeli students had sued the school, saying they faced severe and pervasive discrimination on campus.

A student who paid thousands for a tech boot camp said it was “a Caltech program in name only.”

The case challenges the Trump administration’s targeting of noncitizen student activists for arrest and deportation on First Amendment grounds.

We cannot return to the innocence of the Obama era even if that is what we want.

David Swensen’s ‘Yale model’ is running out of room to run.

The lawsuits have survived dismissals. They accuse NC State of ignoring allegations of grooming behavior from the longtime sports medicine director.

The free summer school program is funded mostly with private donations.

TRADES

The federal government is funding educational seminars about the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. Applying institutions get a leg up if they have what are often criticized as conservative centers. Even as it freezes billions of dollars in higher education funding elsewhere, the Trump administration is offering colleges and universities grants to put on seminars for K-12 educators and students related to next year’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And it’s telling applicants they’ll have a better shot at earning some of the funding, estimated at over $14 million, if they meet a certain criterion.

After an AI expert finished teaching a class at the University of California at Los Angeles, he was alarmed to discover that a version of his syllabus was still being used.

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