Today's Clips (11/1/17)
IN OTHER NEWS

Three professors from the department of psychological and brain sciences have been put on paid leave as a criminal investigation is carried out.

Technical troubles that took the Common App portal offline for two hours Monday night were met with anxiety and mordant humor by students and college officials.

Elite campuses have too few grown-up students.

Far from being duped, researchers with few resources are turning to “predatory” journals to publish articles and polish resumes.

For-profit colleges, however, look worse with the new graduation numbers.

Bard College plans to launch a “microcollege” at the Brooklyn Public Library and will be free for students, aiming to attract talented low-income applicants who haven’t sought degrees due to the pricetag or personal hardships

The University of Chicago’s prestigious economics department will be renamed for billionaire hedge-fund manager Kenneth Griffin, who will give $125 million to the university.

The University of Michigan is considering a request to permit the white nationalist to speak on campus, and the University of Cincinnati is preparing for a speech

Twenty-one students at SUNY Plattsburgh have been charged with hazing fraternity pledges by making them drink alcohol, forcing them to eat food off the floor, and vomiting and urinating on them.

Most college students don’t stray too far from home. But a curious thing has happened over the past decade: The number of college students leaving North Carolina has doubled. Only

Several elite Baltimore schools are responding to photos posted on social media over the weekend of students dressed Halloween costumes many have called racially offensive.

TRADES

Cheap devices, known as keyloggers, are being used by students to steal professors’ passwords on campus and to change grades.

Senior faculty members on three campuses face disciplinary action or resign over harassment allegations. Some observers see movement in the right direction but say academe still has a ways to go in ending the “academic casting couch.”

Falwell calls Liberty University the Fox News of academia. But where is one of President Trump’s staunchest supporters taking the university he and his family built?

Maybe it’s your own generational bias that is getting in the way of appreciating today’s undergraduates.

How a season of racial protests turned Evergreen State College’s self-examination into a national spectacle.

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