Today's Clips (8/10/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

‘Contract grading’ billed as revolutionary education practice.

A literature class at a small liberal arts college is experimenting with a new program where professors utilize “contract grading."
IN OTHER NEWS

A California court said it was “not persuaded” by the argument that there was insufficient evidence and that the Stanford swimmer had sought only “outercourse.”

Saudi Arabia’s escalating diplomatic row with Canada has upended the lives of the thousands of Saudi students at Canadian universities who have been ordered out of the country by the kingdom.

Administrators at universities and colleges across the country have been spending the summer in suspense as they invest scarce resources in large numbers of new programs they hope will bolster sagging enrollment.

The latest move by the NCAA to give athletes a few more rights highlights shows at least one thing about the people in charge of the cartel that runs college sports.

Don't forget to give your college students advice: take classes outside your major; find a mentor; use career services; embrace diversity of thought.

Students and families deserve better data. Congress can make it happen.

TRADES

Office led by President Trump's son-in-law holds a series of meetings on higher education policy, signaling high-level attention from the administration.

Report that Vanderbilt has nonathletic goals for donors alarms boosters but points to broader tensions in higher education between raising money for athletics and academics.

Claudrena Harold discusses the difficult conversations she’s had with students and colleagues at the University of Virginia. “These events tested their faith,” she says.

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