Today's Clips (7/30/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
"In 1999, court records said, Debra Tyson grew unhappy in her marriage to Tom Oddo, a wrestling coach at Davidson College."
IN OTHER NEWS

College-planning surveys give a peek into the opaque and little-regulated market of data-mining of minors.

The suit, which accuses the university of discriminating against Asian-Americans, has shed light on little-known aspects of Harvard’s selection process.

The university in a court filing rebutted an analysis of six years of its admissions data as “fundamentally unreliable” in trying to prove the school discriminates against Asian-American applicants.

The image of the modern undergraduate is no longer one that packs up the family minivan three months after high school graduation to move away to college for four years. More than one-third of college students today transfer at least once before earning a bachelor’s degree.

The director of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia writes about the appointment of Marc Short, the former legislative director in the Trump White House, as a senior fellow. He says that “service in the Trump administration should not be a bar to service at the University of Virginia."

TRADES

College of Charleston stopped considering race in admissions in 2016, and word just leaked Sunday.

Top Education Department official describes plan to "rethink" higher-education standards through new rule-making process, to be announced today, on accreditation, the credit hour standard, the faculty role online and more.

A report about Steven G. Swant discovered conflicts of interest and misuse of campus resources.

Scholars and nonprofit leaders gathered at Rutgers this week to share ideas on how colleges can help immigrants on campus and elsewhere. The stakes are higher than ever, one attendee said.

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