Today's Clips (7/6/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

A center for entrepreneurs and student collaboration at Davidson College will soon open as the only of its kind at any liberal arts institution.

It's all about the lean

IN OTHER NEWS

For some colleges and universities to survive, they need to shift from their historical mission. One university thinking about those new models is the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Wake Tech reaches out to students who may be displaced from Art Institute of Raleigh-Durham, Art Institute of Charlotte and South University in High Point. The three colleges are among 30 schools nationwide owned by Dream Center Education Holdings that have stopped enrolling new students.

UNC-Chapel Hill has overhauled its policies since five women filed a complaint against the university for poor handling of sexual assault cases. But the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights ruled that the university had violated the Title IX law that bars gender discrimination.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. tapped former Harvard University president Drew Faust as a director, making her the third woman on an expanded 12-member board.

Richard J. Reddick, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at The University of Texas at Austin, explains why.

TRADES

Concerns rise over enrollment and finances at the storied small liberal arts college in Ohio.

William Shatner unleashes on academics on Twitter after he criticizes librarians' recent decision to rename an award named after Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Renewed criticism of a 2016 inquiry at Baylor University has raised questions about the law firms colleges call in for help. Some critics say the lawyers have incentives to serve the college, not expose its failings.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to rule on Friday in McAdams v. Marquette University — a case that is either about academic freedom or basic professionalism, depending on whom you ask.

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