Today's Clips (12/4/17)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Luke Maye scored 24 points and added 17 rebounds in North Carolina’s 85-75 win Friday over Davidson, the school the Huntersville native was close to choosing.

Freshman Kellan Grady grew up idolizing former Davidson Wildcats basketball star Stephen Curry. Now Grady’s the starting point guard at Curry’s alma mater.

A trio of African-born entrepreneurs came to Chattanooga last summer to develop their online business plan with the help of Co.Lab and will soon begin testing their venture in their new transplanted home.

IN OTHER NEWS

Spelman and Morehouse, the historically black colleges in Atlanta, are among a number of schools nationwide fielding complaints about sexual misconduct.

The former Stanford student, who served three months of a six-month sentence after being convicted of felony sexual assault, is seeking a retrial.

Fraternity members from New York City are expected to be sentenced in Pennsylvania for Chun Hsien Deng’s death during an initiation ritual in 2013.

The revamp of the Higher Education Act kicks off what could be a rocky and drawn-out legislative process aimed at reshaping the playing field for post-secondary education.

Spooked by rising hostility in Trump country, elite schools are seeking small-town students.

Forty-three U.S. students were awarded the 2018 Marshall Scholarship, the largest class of scholars since 2007, according to the British Embassy.

Graduate students around the U.S. are staging campus walk-outs and lobbying Congress in an effort to keep their tuition waivers tax-free.

The fine print of a new Republican higher education bill would amend campus safety law.

Few sectors of the economy have been hit harder in the proposed overhaul of the federal tax code than higher education. 

Two college admissions expert detail the gap with specific examples.

TRADES

The University of Cincinnati police chief was supposed to investigate threats stemming from an alleged affair between faculty members. Instead, an outside report says, he contacted the woman involved “well beyond any investigative imperative.”

Republican proposal would allow colleges to delay campus assault proceedings at law enforcement request, amend reporting requirements.

While for-profits get the relief they’ve long clamored for, the GOP’s proposed overhaul of the Higher Education Act would add performance-funding standards for most colleges.

James Allsup, former head of the Washington State U. College Republicans, won re-election as president of the campus chapter. But he was found to be ineligible for the office because he will soon graduate.

As lawmakers prepare to hash out the differences in bills passed by both chambers of Congress, here’s what each would mean for higher ed.

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