Today's Clips (7/18/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Davidson College's newest endeavor aims to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship between students and the community. PDF here: http://bit.ly/2L4dOde

The Boston Red Sox organization surprised Durin O’Linger when he arrived at spring training in Fort Myers, Fla., in February.

IN OTHER NEWS

A teenager in love worries that following her ambition and going long-distance will jeopardize her relationship.

Colleges are turning to the corporate-marketing playbook to better identify and appeal to prospective adult students, crunching consumer databases to tailor their pitches.

My humanities colleagues unthinkingly malign math and science as the province of uncreative drones.

High school students have taken to Twitter and Reddit, arguing the scale used to score the June SAT was unfair and could jeopardize students' scholarship or college admissions chances.

A third Dartmouth College psychology professor facing sexual misconduct allegations has left the school following an internal investigation and recommendation that the school fire him.

Winthrop University is cited in a FIRE report for an incident that happened in November 2016.

TRADES

The university shut down its comprehensive sexual assault unit after complaints of mismanagement and potential retraumatization of survivors -- and experts question whether the model can be successful at all.

Temple reveals that scandal over false information submitted for rankings of its online M.B.A. was much broader than earlier known. Dean, found to have dismantled system for checking accuracy of data, is ousted.

More can be done at both the student and leadership level to encourage greater understanding, collaboration and integration across different sectors of the same higher education system, write Ross Gittell and Julie Johnson.

This polarizing vision of higher education serves politicians and profiteers, not students.

Scholars have absorbed administrators’ obsession with measuring and ranking, and it’s keeping us from taking intellectual risks.

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