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Jan 29 2018

Today's Clips (1/29/18)

Today's Clips (1/29/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Richmond Spiders flip script Sunday on Davidson Wildcats, perhaps college basketball’s most efficient offensive team, to win Atlantic 10 game, 66-63.
Questbridge Scholar from KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate is member of Davidson Class of 2022.
IN OTHER NEWS
With nearly 1,200 students signed up, a course that tells students how to lead more satisfying lives may be the largest in university history.
N.Y.U. and other schools are offering refuge to students whose college careers have been interrupted by Hurricane Maria’s devastation.
Colleges and universities are in the business of education. Increasingly, they are also in the business of banking. Banks like Wells Fargo, PNC and U.S. Bancorp have signed scores of deals with schools nationwide that essentially make the universities their sales representatives.
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will judge a promise of academic freedom.
An explosive sex-abuse scandal and the resignation of its longtime president forces reflection at a public university.

By 2026, U.S. colleges will start to see a drop in customers as the number of high school graduates declines.
Lou Bissette, chairman of the UNC Board of Governors, said he stands behind an op-ed in which he touted the board’s work and said it should stay away from political controversies and day-to-day management. He had been challenged about the piece by fellow board member, Bob Rucho.
North Carolina residents would see no tuition increase, but some fee hikes, at UNC system campuses in 2018-19. However, UNC-Chapel Hill’s business majors could be charged a $2,000 extra fee in order for the school to expand.

Elon's new four-year undergraduate degree program will start in the fall.
TRADES

Were four years of top ratings from U.S. News based on incorrect data?

Michigan State board members face calls for their resignation in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal, but it's hard to force out boards. Some say that's for good reason.

And the academy only hastens our forgetting.

Two recent cases suggest that colleges are reacting more swiftly and firmly to students’ offensive conduct on social media.
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