 Illustration: The Chronicle Why Encampments Scare College Presidents David Jesse, The Chronicle of Higher Education College presidents and other senior leaders are struggling to respond to the latest wave of mass protests to roil American higher education. While many of these officials champion free speech in statements, they say they are also concerned about safety.
But sending in the police can backfire. |
What Convinces Voters to Raise Taxes: Child Care Ariel Gilreath, The Hechinger Report Without child care, Derrika Richard couldn't work; and without work, she couldn't afford child care. It felt like an unsolvable problem until last fall when she was accepted into a New Orleans tax-funded program that pays for child care. Now, for the first time, Richard is earning enough to pay her bills and afford online classes.
Other cities are taking note, joining a growing trend of local communities passing ballot measures to expand access to child care. |
 Photo: Sophie Park ‘DIVEST’: College Endowments Turn Into Flash Point of Student Protests Rachel Siegel, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, and Richard Morgan, The Washington Post From Boston to California, students are calling on universities to cut ties with Israel’s economy, and especially with the country’s war in Gaza—effectively seeking to make academic institutions use their financial weight to show support for Palestinians.
It’s part of a movement—broadly known as BDS—that calls for boycotts, divestments, and sanctions of corporations or institutions supportive of Israel, sometimes even in tangential ways. |
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