Higher Education
Ben James
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NEPM
Some colleges and universities, like Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, are preparing to stand up and fight Republican-led calls for higher-ed changes. In the crosshairs? DEI efforts and civil rights.
Greenfield Mayor Ginny DeSorgher stops by the NEPM studios to chat with us about her first year in office, and we explore the cosmos with Mr. Universe.
![This week's panel for The Rundown includes NEPM reporter Nancy Eve Cohen; Greg Sukiennik, news editor for the Berkshire Eagle; and Dusty Christensen [not pictured], frequent NEPM contributor and investigative editor at The Shoestring.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/9d9dc83/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1920x1080!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F34%2Ff4%2Fc8e149a04560bbc078b1fef12697%2Fthumbnail-the-rundown-12-20-24.jpg)
Tony Dunne
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NEPM
Today on The Rundown, panelists continue a news retrospective for 2024 by discussing efforts to clean up toxic waste, how western Mass. institutions begin repatriation processes of Native remains and artifacts, and the ongoing impacts of a deregulated climate.
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Rob Terry
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Courtesy of the author
Trees are deemed a climate ally and here in New England we’re rich in them. But New Englanders tend to take them for granted — and that’s a dangerous thing.
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