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Schools around the country are figuring out how to respond to the administration’s orders to end their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. “More than 240 colleges … have eliminated some aspects of their programming, including diversity offices or race-based affinity groups,” by one count. The University of Akron has stopped funding an annual forum on race, although administrators also cited falling attendance in that decision, and the University of North Carolina at Asheville will no longer make a suite of diversity-focused classes a graduation requirement. Some higher-education institutions are laying low, waiting for the outcome of litigation over the orders, while some K-12 school systems, which are less reliant on federal funds, are openly defiant. (New York Times)
Billionaire philanthropist Wendy Schmidt has bought a majority stake in one of the country’s premier documentary studios. Filmmaker Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, whose subjects have included Enron, Scientology, and state-sanctioned torture in the war on terror, will “broaden its editorial focus to include more stories on climate change and ocean health, topics that have been central” to Schmidt’s philanthropy. Gibney will continue to run the company, which has produced dozens of documentaries. Financial terms were not disclosed. (New York Times)
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Education: The Aim High grant competition, funded by New York Life Foundation and administered by the Afterschool Alliance, supports out-of-school time programs across the United States that prepare middle school students for success. In 2025, a total of 30 grants worth $1.8 million will be awarded to after-school, summer, or expanded learning programs serving middle school youth living in under-resourced communities. Grants of $20,000 or $100,000; application deadline March 7.
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