Today's Clips (5/3/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Baton Rouge Community College has selected Adam Knapp, president and CEO of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, as its spring graduation keynote speaker.

Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.) is looking to put the past behind him in next week’s primary, where he’ll face a challenge from the same foe that nearly cost him a third term two years ago. 

Duncan, a Greensboro attorney, attended his first State Board of Education meeting Tuesday.

Former NBL star says "I'm embarrassed, humiliated and ashamed."

IN OTHER NEWS

Academicians offer specific advice.

The city will spend $200,000 on a program that helps high school students who dream of being entrepreneurs. The men will each receive $1. Starbucks also announced a financial settlement.

Tennessee chancellor Beverly Davenport is being forced out of her post after less than 15 months at the helm, a tenure that included a tumultuous search for a head football coach and other controversies.

College students without a financial safety net are in a tough spot when unexpected costs arise.

UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt has recommended to trustees that they vote to revoke the honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby, who was recently convicted in a sexual assault case.

A combination of economic and demographic trends have private schools offering scholarships to lure students.

Cooperation among selective schools would make students’ lives easier. It would also likely run afoul of federal antitrust law.

Senioritis is a very real condition that many students experience in the spring of 12th grade. So is the potential for a rescinded offer of admission.

TRADES

Former general counsel says Ohio Christian fired him for investigating alleged misconduct -- including sexual harassment and racist and anti-Semitic statements by president's son. President and son then landed jobs at another university.

During her short tenure as the flagship’s chancellor, Beverly Davenport ran afoul of conservatives over “Sex Week,” outsourcing of campus labor, and gay rights. She also presided over a botched search for a football coach.

The Texas flagship campus’s recently launched MasculinUT program happens to be housed at its counseling and mental-health center. But that was enough to set off online hysteria.

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