Today's Clips (6/28/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Municipalities can save money—and limit controversy—by commissioning works to be on display for a short time. PDF: http://bit.ly/2KqoHBF

The Davidson College men's basketball team will fly to Poland on Saturday to visit Auschwitz, as inspired by Ray Allen's trip last year.

Four liberal arts colleges teamed up to work together on MOOCs. Their paths diverged, but the experience was far from a waste of time and energy.

IN OTHER NEWS

There were 292 reported cases of racist or otherwise bigoted fliers and posters at colleges in nine months, the Anti-Defamation League found.

When a former University of Southern California student-body president created a petition, thousands of people signed it. But she was also accused of libel, leading the ACLU to step in to protect her right to free speech.

Public universities have no choice but to welcome far-right speakers seeking self-promotion. Should the First Amendment be reinterpreted for the digital age?

Two economics professors, Jody Lipford and Jerry Slice, examine the impact of college sports.

TRADES

He wrote key decisions on affirmative action and other topics that matter to colleges. Kennedy's departure could erase the Supreme Court majority backing the right of colleges to consider race in admissions.

High court says public employees don't have to pay regular agency fees to unions that represent them in collective bargaining and more, which could hurt faculty and staff unions.

In the aftermath of Harvard’s controversial decision to reject an ex-inmate for a graduate program, Elizabeth Hinton is pushing the university to confront that question.

Community college has long been recognized as a cost-efficient ramp into a bachelor’s degree program. Yet many of the most prepared community college ...

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