Today's Clips (9/22/25)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
A new report argues institutions like Davidson, Washington and Lee, and Williams have strayed from their foundational missions of fostering character and truth.
IN OTHER NEWS

The administration’s latest attack on the nation’s oldest university comes as negotiations stall for a settlement to restore billions in frozen federal research funds.

Its ideology isn’t about governance but about pitting different groups of people against each other.

Young people, it’s time to create your own path—maybe even your own jobs.

Change is in the air as college students return from summer break this year. At more than 400 campuses across the country, programs and centers that promote diversity, equity and inclusion have been eliminated or rebranded. Ali Rogin speaks with Paulette Granberry Russell, president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, for our Rethinking College series.

In the NIL era, college football players are living a new version of the college experience.

As the Trump administration targeted international students earlier this year, some experts feared this fall would bring lower enrollment.

TRADES

The heightened cash monitoring status slapped on the university Friday is typically reserved for institutions in serious financial turmoil. This time, experts say, it’s being used as an intimidation tactic. The Education Department announced Friday that it placed Harvard University on heightened cash monitoring, a designation that allows greater federal oversight of institutional finances and is typically reserved for colleges in dire financial straits.  By all accounts, Harvard, with its $53 billion endowment, is not.

We’ve documented actions taken on hundreds of college campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and retention of minority staff and students.

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