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American Council of Trustees and Alumni discuss issues facing NC higher education
Leaders from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni recently sat down with North State Journal to discuss issues facing higher education...
For one loyal Barnard College alumni, things soured almost overnight. Rebecca Gray, class of 2013, had been active as a student — admissions ambassador, resident adviser, a cappella group member, LGBTQ+ advocate — and friendly enough with then-president Debora Spar that the two met for drinks after both had left campus. Gray, who prefers the pronoun “they,” donated regularly, attended reunion, and even created crossword puzzles for the college magazine.
Yet warm feelings for Barnard, a women’s college affiliated with Columbia University, failed to dilute Gray’s outrage watching video of New York City police round up pro-Palestinian protesters, including Barnard students, on Columbia’s campus last month shortly after the protests began.
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Leaders from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni recently sat down with North State Journal to discuss issues facing higher education...
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