Today's Clips (3/19/18)
IN OTHER NEWS

As they admit more poor students, colleges need to do a better job of serving them.

The Trump administration seems more interested in appeasing student loan companies than helping those who are in debt.

It wasn’t exactly mass hysteria Saturday on the campus that wins chess championships the way Duke collects basketball ones. The model U.N. team is tough, too.

Supporters of tuition-free higher education say it is an investment that benefits all Americans. But opponents say expecting taxpayers to shoulder the cost is unfair.

Larry Nassar’s longtime boss at Michigan State University told a group of students and administrators in the fall of 2016 that he did not believe female patients who alleged repeated sexual abuse by the former U.S. national gymnastics team doctor.

Now Black Lives Matter wants Amy Wax fired for arguing that preferences harm their ‘beneficiaries.’

Almonds are shaping up to be a more lucrative endeavor for pension funds, endowments and other institutions with very long-term investment horizons.

There are three important things for students and their parents to consider in the weeks ahead as they make their final choice.

Young migrants who felt lost and out of place have found a second home at the new DREAM Center in Portland.

The University of Michigan improperly withheld information about how it determines compensation for the chief investment officer of its $11 billion endowment, a state judge ruled, according to The Detroit Free Press.

TRADES

What happens to diversity-minded educators when their son is wait-listed by Yale, but his biracial best friend with lower grades and test scores gets in? A new play has people talking.

MLA data show foreign language study is on the decline, but it's unclear what comes first: institutional disinvestment in language programs or waning student interest. In any case, some campuses -- generally those making investments in programs -- are bucking the trend.

The University of Maryland-Baltimore County made basketball history — and earned a chance to talk itself up to the nation. At least in the short term, it could see broader benefits.

In a snowy corner of Pennsylvania, Edinboro University’s Fred Walker is brazenly shaping the public narrative to support his agenda.

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