Today's Clips (4/19/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Mobike partnership mentioned in this look at dockless bike sharing in CLT.

Organization "concerned about the loss of due process protections on America’s campuses" includes Davidson as one of ten schools whose "track records should concern parents."

IN OTHER NEWS

Dozens of students confronted the president of western Indiana's DePauw University over racist messages recently found around campus, a day after protesters interrupted an event with actress Jenna Fischer.

Many poor, minority high-schoolers don’t apply to top institutions even though they could get in—a decision that can have lasting consequences.

Education officials in the Trump Administration will investigate a woman's allegation that Lees-McRae College mishandled her sexual harassment complaint because she is white.

According to U.S. News and World Report, the average early acceptance rate among 216 colleges that shared data for the fall of 2016 was 16.4 percentage points higher than the average regular acceptance rate.

Micheal Brown, the Houston public high school student who got into all 20 of the top colleges where he applied, wrote not one but three main essays.

TRADES

Holding tuition flat since 2012-13 has raised the land-grant university’s profile and helped it grow, but diminished enrollment of students from Indiana and fueled competition for resources by academic departments.

After initially appearing to defend the free speech of Randa Jarrar, an associate professor of English who tweeted that the late Barbara Bush was “an amazing racist” who raised a “war criminal,” Fresno State University said Wednesday that it would investigate her. "A professor with tenure does not have blanket protection to say and do what they wish," Fresno State President Joseph Castro said during a news conference.

College degrees are losing value for the people who need them most.

A handbook for teaching assistants in the computer-science department said female students would try to “capitalize on the male-female dynamic” to get good grades.

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