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

Columnist Issac J. Bailey writes that even as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, its progress is being undone.

The new member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors will face three appointed by Biden, as well as Fed Chair Jerome Powell himself, who combined could offer a powerful counterweight against any efforts to overhaul monetary policy.

IN OTHER NEWS

The public release of data on test scores and race could wind up making wealth even more influential in admissions.

Technology is making the old ways of teaching ineffective. A new way is starting to emerge.

A new lawsuit brought by a First Amendment watchdog group argues that the use of a rarely invoked immigration law to target pro-Palestinian demonstrators is unconstitutional.

College sports’ governing body let football TV rights slip away in the 1980s. Now, four power conferences effectively rule the business.

This fall, campuses could see fewer international students walking their halls, according to early projections from enrollment experts.

TRADES

Frozen research funding, rising endowment taxes and other concerns have prompted some of the nation’s wealthiest universities to shed jobs despite their multibillion-dollar endowments. Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump has forced changes at many of the nation’s wealthiest universities, some of which have shed hundreds of jobs amid federal funding issues and investigations.

The Manhattan Institute and the Heterodox Academy disagree on whether higher ed can reform itself.

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