Today's Clips (11/30/17)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Rae Carruth is expected to be released from prison next year. Issac Bailey relates to Carruth, and says he needs forgiveness and redemption.

Long profile of Lefty Driesell

Members of the Davidson community came together Nov. 22 to honor Bill Giduz, the most recent recipient of the Jack Burney Award.

IN OTHER NEWS

Taxing free tuition would harm all graduate students, but it would be devastating for students of color.

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives this week will propose sweeping legislation that aims to change where Americans go to college, how they pay for it, what they study, and how their success—or failure—affects the institutions they attend.

A tax proposal would raise little revenue but harm higher ed.

A top administrator at the University of Chicago writes about an aspect of the tax bill under consideration that would impose a steep hike on graduate students.

California's attorney general sued an online, for-profit university Wednesday, alleging officials made false promises to entice students and illegally tried to collect their overdue debt.

A student athlete born with only one kidney sued the University of Southern Mississippi on Wednesday, claiming school officials pulled him off the football team after learning of his medical condition.

Fourteen more former fraternity members pleaded guilty to reduced charges and were sentenced to probation on Wednesday for the 2013 hazing death of a New York college freshman, a day after 15 men entered similar plea bargains in the case.

In June, one of the District's poorest high schools celebrated a major achievement: all of its graduates were accepted to college. But an investigation by WAMU and NPR shows that many of these students shouldn't have crossed the stage.

TRADES

House education committee leaks its ambitious first draft of a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, with broad changes aimed at both deregulation and more accountability in how federal student aid is distributed and used.

Major study by American Academy of Arts and Sciences seeks change in curriculum and assessment, commitment to funding public higher education, new ideas about the faculty role, and more.

As colleges rescind awards to fallen eminences, how can they separate laudable accomplishments from flawed individuals? Should they?

Students, faculty, and administrators hope to bring about sweeping cultural change at the Berklee College of Music, where 11 professors have been fired for sexual misconduct over the past 13 years.

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