They're Talking On Campus.

. . .About the approximately one-fourth of biomedical scientists who have financial affiliations with industry, according to researchers at Yale University School of Medicine.

Their report, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, notes that two-thirds of academic institutions hold equity in companies sponsoring research at those institutions and that industry-financed research more often draws commercially favorable conclusions.

. . . About the resegregation of our nation’s public schools. The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University’s recent study, “A Multiracial Society with Segregated Schools: Are We Losing the Dream?” finds the nation's public schools are becoming steadily more nonwhite, as the minority student enrollment approaches 40 percent.

The desegregation of Black students, which increased from the 1950s to the late 1980s, has now receded, and all progress in integrating public schools since the 1960s has been reversed, the study finds. The report can be viewed at www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu.

...About the College Board’s National Dialogue on Student Financial Aid, which concludes that Congress should substantially increase the limits on Pell Grants, the federal government’s major grant program for low-income college students.

The panel also calls on states to take steps to ensure that politically popular merit-based financial aid programs do not displace aid for low-income students.