Today's Clips (8/23/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Are college campuses becoming battlegrounds testing freedom of speech? Do students and faculty feel free to discuss controversial ideas?

In my ten years of being a head coach I have had two real breakdowns I can remember, and both of those breakdowns occurred after my team lost a game I truly believe we should have won.

Charlotte theater fixture Anne Lambert and sister ask playgoers to examine gender and power in ‘Confidence (and The Speech)’

If you don’t feel safe talking about race, you’re complicit in white supremacy

IN OTHER NEWS
Institutions from Virginia to Mississippi are coming to terms with statues, markers and building names linked to their Confederate past, without alienating alumni and donors. PDF: http://bit.ly/2BDcGZM

The heightened security around Confederate monuments across North Carolina came hours after protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pulled down a Jim Crow-era statue.

America’s young generation has had it up to here with millennials.

Our relationship with neighbors can teach us vital lessons about empathy, reason and ultimately respect.

Heat didn’t kill Jordan McNair. The unhinged practices of DJ Durkin and those like him did.

Freshman year is all about challenging—and expanding—students' mindsets.

Biblical truth-telling at college newspapers can sometimes conflict with the way administrators want to portray the school. Here’s a case study of how Liberty University handled the tension last spring

Tinder officially Tinder U today, its college student-only service that requires users to have a .edu email address. To log in to the feature for the first time, users must have a .edu email address and be geolocated on campus.

TRADES

As more universities give students voice-controlled Alexa devices, observers and critics ask why.

Oglethorpe aims to win academically strong students by aligning tuition with their states' flagships.

Administrators’ aggressive message on Tuesday night is regrettable and counterproductive. They should have stuck with their first, better instincts.

To know Alexander Clark, the chief executive behind a growing admissions-tech company, is to know the realm of data-driven strategists and back-office staff members who turn the wheels of the modern admissions process.

In the self-serving subculture of retweeting for fame, some universities have been hit with repeated requests for free tuition — if a prospective student can spur a storm of retweets.

Taking a page from Jonathan Swift, one college president has a suggestion for improving the most popular college-ranking process.

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