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Trump’s Emerging Higher Ed Platform
Donald Trump has been quiet about higher education policy during his triumphant march through the Republican presidential primaries. That could be ending soon. Sam Clovis, the national co-chair and policy director of Trump's campaign, outlined for Inside Higher Ed the ideas that the presumptive GOP nominee is preparing to put forth. While final decisions have not been made on when the ideas will be formally unveiled, not to mention many details worked out, Clovis said the Trump campaign expects higher education to be a major issue in the fall general election.
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How George Mason Became Koch’s Academic Darling
In the annals of George Mason University’s history, few outsiders have claim to a role so prominent as Charles G. Koch. Indeed, one can scarcely separate the story of George Mason from that of Mr. Koch, a libertarian billionaire who, along with his brother, David H. Koch, has used his fortune to try to swing elections and to emancipate markets from regulation. The Koch brothers’ war of ideas expands far across academe, where programs aligned with their political interests curry philanthropic favor, but no institution has benefited as consistently from the Koch largess as George Mason.
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Stop Anti-Asian Bias
Any day now the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on Fisher v. University of Texas. The case concerns a lawsuit filed by Abigail Fisher, a white applicant who was denied admission to UT. Fisher argues that her race played a role in the admissions decision, and this, she claims, constituted a violation of her rights. The higher education community is waiting apprehensively for the Supreme Court’s verdict. Many worry that the decision could drastically limit the ability of colleges and universities to be racially diverse.
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Pentagon’s Research Arm Seeks Wider Relationship With University Scientists
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was created in 1958 in the aftermath of the Sputnik launch, part of a determined effort by the Pentagon to ensure that the United States and its military always have access to cutting-edge technology. The agency now has an annual budget of close to $3 billion, which over the years it has used to develop such major technologies as synthetic biology, carbon nanotubes, and the Internet itself.
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Brazil’s Senate Suspends President Dilma Rousseff
Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School shares his views on the impeachment of Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff.
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The Cynarctus Wangi Made Those ‘Game of Thrones’ Dire Wolves Look Like Teddy Bears
Graduate student Steve Jasinski of the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for identifying a new species of fossil dog.
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Researchers Attached – and They Answer Back
Senator Jeff Flake came to work Tuesday with cups of pudding -- meant to look like dirt -- each complete with a couple of colorful gummy worms. “Getting ready to worm my way into the @SenatePress Gallery,” he tweeted. The cups, which the Arizona Republican handed out to journalists, came affixed with a sticker: “Studies that will make you squirm.”
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Hunt for Big Bang Gravitational Waves Gets $40-Million Boost
Mark Devlin of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about the Simons Foundation funding a new observatory.
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Lawmaker With the Idea Higher Ed Leaders Hate
U.S. Representative Tom Reed says he’s open to modifying a controversial proposal to channel spending from large college and university endowments into student aid, even as he pitches the idea to presidential candidates and takes flak from the higher education community. Reed, a Republican from New York, is drawing up legislation that would affect universities and colleges with endowments of more than $1 billion.
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Obama Banana ‘Jokes’ Show Soviet-era Racism Remains Alive in Russia
Jennifer Wilson of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about racial politics in Russia.