内容摘要：Now 24, Franco was having an All-Star season in 2023 before Dominican authorities began investigating allegations he had been in a relationship with a minor and paid her mother thousands of dollars for her consent. The trial was initially scheduled for Dec. 12 but was postponed until June.

Now 24, Franco was having an All-Star season in 2023 before Dominican authorities began investigating allegations he had been in a relationship with a minor and paid her mother thousands of dollars for her consent. The trial was initially scheduled for Dec. 12 but was postponed until June.

“Political operatives have basically used their positions of power — political power, economic power — to demand that the institutions conform to their ideas,” said Isaac Kamola, director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors.“It’s an existential attack on higher education that we’re facing,” added Kamola, a political science professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

, governing boards at higher education institutions will be tasked with reviewing — and potentially overturning — general education curriculum requirements to ensure courses are necessary to prepare students for civic and professional life, equip them for the workforce and are worth the cost to students.Governing boards also will gain greater power over faculty councils, the employment of academic administrators and decisions to eliminate minor degree or certificate programs that have low enrollment. The bill also creates a state ombudsman’s office to investigate complaints against institutions, including alleged violations of restrictions against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.“The objective of this legislation is to provide consistency with respect to our curriculum and the degrees we’re offering our students,” Republican state Rep. Matt Shaheen, co-sponsor of the legislation, said during House floor debate.

Ray Bonilla, an attorney for the Texas A&M University System, one of the state’s largest higher education institutions, said the legislation formalizes decisions already being made at the university and wouldn’t create an “undue workload.”But Democratic state Rep. Donna Howard said during a May committee hearing that the legislation “appears to be extreme micromanagement on the part of the Legislature.”

“The bill is not about improving education, it is about increasing control,” Howard said during the debate.

at public colleges and universities, strips faculty of certain collective bargaining and tenure protections and mandates a civil literacy course in order to graduate. In addition to covering the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, the three-credit-hour course must include a least five essays from the Federalist Papers, the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. and a study of the principles of Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations,” among other things.People in provinces as far away as Guantánamo, Artemisa, Santiago de Cuba, and Santa Clara reported experiencing blackouts with just flickers of light.

Earlier, the Electric Union, the state agency that regulates the sector, said in its daily report that peak-hour demand would be around 3,250 megawatts and the deficit would reach around 1,380 megawatts, meaning 42% of the national energy system would be shut down. This figure is not the highest in recent memory.at the end of last year, leaving the island in the dark amid a serious economic crisis.

Cuba’s power grid has been plagued by frequent outages, with more than half of the country experiencing power cuts during peak hours. The outages are primarily caused by. In many parts of the island, electricity is crucial for cooking and water pumping.