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September 06, 2023
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Ira Porter
Education Writer

Issues important to higher education seem endless.

The United States Supreme Court ended race-based admissions in June, which I’m sure made millions of teenagers of color around the country and the world anxious about whether they would get accepted into dream schools. Legacy admissions for scions of wealthy or well-connected alumni at some of those same schools were challenged as a result of that same ruling, sending shivers of nervousness to privileged people, too.

Artificial intelligence threatens to take away the discovery process of young people studying and figuring out problems on their own by giving them the words to craft would-be research papers. National security concerns have pushed some campuses to ban TikTok on their public Wi-Fi. Students can’t afford housing. Controversial faculty appointments have been made and rescinded. Financially strapped universities are cutting majors and disciplines. A war on woke education finds new targets daily.

With all of this before us, I will travel to California this week to gather with reporters at the Education Writers Association conference on higher education. We will talk about how we can best present these stories to the public. Every issue matters deeply to someone, from the pots of gold available in reshuffling in athletic conferences, to the urgency of finding housing to keep students from being homeless.

I am honored to be able to present some of these issues to you in the Monitor’s pages, and I hope along the way that you suggest a story or two to me. School is back in session. What will we uncover this year?


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Today’s stories

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A combination picture shows police booking mug shots of former President Donald Trump and 11 of the 18 people indicted with him, including (left to right, and from the top down) lawyers Ray Smith, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and Sidney Powell; former Georgia Republican Party leader Cathy Latham; Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro; former Georgia Republican Party leader David Shafer; Republican poll watcher Scott Hall; lawyer John Eastman; Harrison Floyd, former head of Black Voices for Trump; and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

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Sea ice is shrinking. These maps show by how much.

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National Snow and Ice Data Center

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A delegate from the Indigenous Maasai community blows a horn as he arrives at the Africa Climate Summit 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 6, 2023. The three-day summit, which tens of thousands of global delegates attended, concluded today with the Nairobi Declaration. Among other points, it said Africa is ready to lead on clean energy and care for the environment but needs industrialized countries to support initiatives through more robust investment, rather than just offering aid amid crises. It also called for financial reforms to ease borrowing costs, as well as a global carbon tax. The declaration will be in play at a United Nations climate conference later this month in New York and the COP28 climate conference to be held in Dubai in late November.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. Please come back tomorrow when columnist Ned Temko looks at how a “forever war” between Ukraine and Russia can be prevented. With an outright victory unlikely for either side, diplomatic negotiations seem inevitable. The question is when the two sides will come to that conclusion themselves. Kyiv’s current counteroffensive might have a role to play.

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