Today's Clips (5/21/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Davidson wrapped up its 2018 basketball recruiting class this week with the addition of Luka Brajkovic, a 6-foot-10 forward from Austria.

IN OTHER NEWS

How can young people navigate the college years and beyond?

David Montenegro worked part-time restaurant jobs and took advantage of Arizona's lower in-state tuition as he labored through years of college. Now a senior with the goal of becoming a teacher nearly in sight, the 29-year-old Mexico-born immigrant who arrived in the U.S. at age 11 faces a new hurdle.

In a sign of the changes roiling academia, faculties are voting no confidence in university and college presidents four times more frequently than a decade ago.

Around the table inside the MSU Union occupied by Jianshu Jian and Xi Chen, their fellow students were frantically typing away at final projects.

Boca Raton school ranked near bottom on key measures of whether women athletes are getting equal opportunities.

Spencer Schar, the son of Elon’s biggest donor is accused of drunkenly assaulted 3 people last fall. Victims, witnesses are concerned with the university’s response.

There’s no tax advantage, and it’s not easy, but some employers are offering loan-repayment as a benefit.

TRADES

By embedding college advisers in schools with many underrepresented students, College Advising Corps has helped 300,000 enter postsecondary education. It aims to hit 1 million by 2025.

The taxonomy of academic majors that broadened significantly over the past hundred years can no longer keep pace with the churn of knowledge needed to compete in nearly every profession.

Making them regurgitate facts and study subjects like calculus, which colleges want to see, doesn’t prepare them for the world, says the education reformer Ted Dintersmith.

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