Today's Clips (2/26/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

College and university presidents are convening today at Bloomberg Philanthropies with a singular mission: sending 50,000 more highly-qualified lower-income students to top institutions with high graduation rates by the year 2025 as a part of the American Talent Initiative.

Davidson coach Bob McKillop earned his 550th career victory as the Wildcats beats the Duquesne Dukes, 71-60 on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018. Kellan Grady scored 30 points.
IN OTHER NEWS

Colleges should stop trivializing the transmission of knowledge.

The campus police brought charges against a student, but the accused man’s lawyers say they are doing the administration’s bidding.

State lawmakers created new college programs focused on Western thinkers, drawing the ire of longtime faculty members who called the courses unnecessary.

White nationalist Richard Spencer plans to speak next week at Michigan State University, but the rest of his campus tour has bogged down for now in lawsuits or lack of agreement on timing.

This form of welfare for the wealthy deserves more scrutiny.

A sexual misconduct prevention training for male University of Houston athletes asked them to consider legal action, damage to their reputations and the pain inflicted on victims before doing what they "want to do." 

Grand Canyon plays by different rules. It generates more revenue than the Dallas Cowboys and WWE. It also fields a Division I basketball team, one that comes with big goals and big controversy.

Mooresville, NC-based Lowe’s said its Track to the Trades program will provide pre-apprenticeships and up to $2,500 in tuition to employees, who will receive training through Guild Education.

A woman has filed a federal lawsuit against Lenoir Rhyne University after she says the university failed in handling rape accusations that she brought against another student.
TRADES

UC San Diego Academic Senate rejects student-led push to cut a course on the filmmaker from the curriculum over sexual abuse allegations.

The Michigan State sexual-abuse case illustrates the complex, often misunderstood, role of those whose job it is to legally protect an institution.

At least 129 Twitter accounts associated with the Kremlin-aligned propaganda outfit Internet Research Agency tweeted and retweeted about issues pertinent to higher education from 2015 to 2017, according to a Chronicle analysis.

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