Not Unmindful weekly digest #8
It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
Here are links to what was published to Not Unmindful this week (ending 19 September 2025). It seems to be a week focused on academic freedom and education and history, after all the furor of last week and myth making. I expect, we will be addressing First Amendment issues a lot in the coming week.
Friday
UC Berkeley turns over 160 names to federal government
The University of California, Berkeley, is among the 10 universities that a Trump administration task force on antisemitism has identified for particular attention.
Thursday
Trump's education funding shuffle: a strategic shift toward separation
The Trump administration is cutting money from programs that have supported minority students, including at other universities, to CCBUs, while ending financial support minority programs.
Wednesday
Harvard ends undergraduate minority recruitment program as Trump targets race in admissions
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
Tuesday
Trump administration orders removal of slavery exhibits from national parks
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology,” including photo of enslaved man’s scars.
Monday
Trump's $1.2 billion UCLA settlement is a blueprint for conservative campus transformation
The details of Trump’s $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image and its ramifications.
Non in cautus futuri.
