Today's Clips (8/2/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Many of Beau Baker’s brightest students in Louisville, Ky., entered high school thinking college was not for a first-generation kid like them. Baker is working to change that.

IN OTHER NEWS

Being an outsider can cause culture shock. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

College coaching is on the rise, typically starting in the sophomore or junior year of high school but some parents are going to extremes.

Trump administration is moving to require that colleges and universities publish more detailed data on the finances of their graduates, part of a broader effort to make higher education more market driven.

Smith College is investigating after an employee reported a person on campus who “seemed to be out of place.” The person was a student of color who was on break from her campus job.

Proposals to institute a random-selection process have reemerged in response to a lawsuit alleging that Harvard penalizes Asian American applicants.

TRADES

University of North Carolina board says it lacks power to move controversial Confederate statue. Leaked emails show a Chapel Hill trustee called those protesting the statue "criminals" and "entitled wimps."

Author discusses his critique of higher education as too liberal -- and the idea of creating a new university with another perspective.

Scholars falsely listed as editors of “The International Journal of Humanities and Social Science” can’t seem to make it go away.

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