Today's Clips (2/7/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Brief rundown of the next DavidsonNow course

Athens, Georgia, is famous for a few things: The Bulldogs, The National, and a musical legacy that has transformed the city from a sleepy college town to a cultural mecca. And this man is at the right place, at the right time.

IN OTHER NEWS

New York's Marist College has revoked an honorary degree it awarded to former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly in 2001.

University libraries are unloading millions of unread volumes in a nationwide purge that has some print-loving scholars deeply unsettled.

Americans enrolling in college over the next decade would receive about $15 billion less in subsidies than under current law if House Republicans pass their education bill, according to an official estimate Tuesday.

Donations to U.S. colleges and universities jumped to a record $43.6 billion, thanks to last year’s stock-market rally and renewed charitable activity from alumni.

An Ohio liberal arts college has been criticized for attacking liberal education after a faculty member canceled a production of a play she wrote that discussed illegal immigration over criticism from students and faculty.

Professor Debra Mashek is leaving a tenured job at Harvey Mudd College to lead Heterodox Academy.

Jia Tolentino on a team of researchers at Columbia that believe that small changes to college life could make campuses safer.

TRADES

New data suggest that STEM majors are not the only route to success.

Author discusses new book on what he views as the dangers of an obsession with numbers in analyzing admissions, academic success, faculty productivity and more in higher education.

The professor who invited the former White House strategist and Breitbart News executive says he disagrees with Bannon’s politics. But disinviting the speaker, he said, would send the message that “there is no space for other ideas on cam

In a simulation described in a new journal article, candidates for the posts at Penn State’s medical school were asked to respond to a faculty member who was upset about not having enough time for research.

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