Sara Custer

When I saw the news that Jason Arday had died Friday, I went to my text messages to see what our last exchange said. It was from me, in March 2023, congratulating him on his new job at Cambridge. At the age of 37, he had just been named the youngest Black professor at the austere institution. He hadn’t responded. My message must’ve been one of hundreds he received about his new gig. Like most of the academic world, I am shocked and deeply saddened by the news of his death.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has an antitrust problem. And it’s not going away. The association’s best shot at dispelling the morass faded on Friday when the Senate failed to vote on the Protect College Sports Act, a bill that, among other things, grants the NCAA an antitrust exemption. The earliest time senators will consider it again will be in September. After that, the midterm frenzy kicks in, and who knows when the bill will be back on the floor?

In an open letter, lawmakers told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that delays in visa-processing times risk national security and billions of dollars for the economy. Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Images Thirty senators wrote to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging his agency to process international student and scholar visas in time for the start of the academic year.