Today's Clips (11/29/17)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Bailey Friar of Mount Holly got an invitation he couldn’t turn down.

Home? Meh. Today’s students can choose from an array of travel, service learning, career sampling, and outdoor adventures.

What winter break? For players, it’s often taken up by training. So at Davidson College, career advisers plan accordingly.

IN OTHER NEWS

Lucian Wintrich of The Gateway Pundit was charged with breach of the peace after he became involved in an altercation during his speech.

The Trump administration is reaching out to the country’s biggest finance and tech companies for help in managing the government’s $1.3 trillion student-loan program.

2016, 36 million people ages 25 and over had earned some college credit but no degree, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Students' reasons for stopping short of a diploma are wide-ranging: poor grades, strained finances, negative college experiences, programs that weren't the right fit.

Colleges and universities are reporting a surge in students being asked to verify information on their federal financial aid applications, a time-consuming process that school officials fear could derail low-income applicants.

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci resigned from an advisory role at Tufts University Tuesday

Indiana University’s student-run Interfraternity Council has voted to suspend all Greek life activities, the school announced Monday.

The changes would undermine higher ed, one of the few areas where America still earns top marks.

College students will soon be able to file their applications for federal student aid through a mobile app, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday.

TRADES

University of Nebraska professors want board to defend them against Republican politicians who, after incident with lecturer, have launched a series of salvos against English faculty members and the entire institution.

Controversial speaker arrested at UConn over altercation with audience member in talk many on campus denounced as racist.

Colleges must adapt to a new normal of hate groups’ targeting their campuses, university officials say.

The students plan to protest the Republican tax proposal, which, as passed by the House of Representatives, would tax their tuition waivers. Higher-education leaders have said such a measure, if enacted, could be catastrophic.

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