Today's Clips (4/10/18)
IN OTHER NEWS

New schools tout themselves as alternatives to college in the digital age, but they lack the traditional benefits of a postsecondary education.

At stake is information about ‘early decision’ practices and Harvard University admissions.

Thousands of university students and employees targeted by email phishing schemes this year have taken the bait. Fortunately, they were duped not by real scammers, but by their own schools — in simulations meant to make them more adept at spotting real threats.

A poetry professor thought the last thing she would ever want her students to feel is censored. And then one used a slur.

College students believe promoting inclusion is more important than protecting free speech. That's a threat to the principles of a free society.

A woman who attends Michigan State University filed a federal lawsuit against the school Monday alleging that three former men's basketball players sexually assaulted her at an off-campus apartment in 2015 and that she was discouraged from reporting what happened.

The humanities teach what it means to be human, and the liberal arts can still teach what it means to be free.

Students’ weeklong occupation of an administrative building may be a harbinger of tenacious pushback at other colleges.

The global education market has spawned a global arms race between those who want to cheat and the companies tasked with stopping them. As cheaters develop new tactics and tools, companies and colleges respond.

TRADES

Chicago's proposed undergraduate business major was short-lived, but the economics faculty found a way to save it, as a new "track."

The American Council on Education found that nearly all of the college presidents it surveyed, when asked to choose, would prefer allowing students to be exposed to many types of speech rather than protecting them by prohibiting speech.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign retired its Native American mascot, Chief Illiniwek, more than a decade ago. Its staying power has prompted the chancellor, Robert Jones, to put on a series of “critical conversations.”

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