Today's Clips (8/24/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Former foreign fighters from Kosovo say the country's rehabilitation efforts are doing little, if anything.

Is college worth the price? At these outstanding institutions, that’s a no-brainer. We ignore "inputs" like SAT scores and acceptance rates, instead focusing on "outputs," like career success, student debt, and graduation rates. NOTE: Davidson was ranked 31st in 2017.

‘Literacy as a Jewish issue’; athletes at Auschwitz; Berlin building boom; $10 million gift to revitalize Haifa U.

IN OTHER NEWS

By allowing players to hire agents, the N.C.A.A. may have hastened amateurism’s demise.

The students know that the value of a Harvard education today is mostly just being able to say that you went there.

State Sen. Steve Erdman (R) said the culture at NU would suffer if the university hires a diversity director and would lead to underqualified minority candidates being hired in fields “most dominated by White professors."

Seton Hall University has begun an investigation into potential sexual abuse at two seminaries it hosts following misconduct allegations against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and other priests.

UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt provided no details about what’s next for the Silent Sam Confederate monument, but said the university is doing everything it can to keep the campus safe in the aftermath of Monday’s protest.

TRADES

U.S. News will consider them unranked for the rest of this rankings year, but that punishment will last only a few weeks. Errors included graduation rates, spending per student, average faculty salaries and more.

Critics blast university for handing head football coach Urban Meyer a light sentence in his handling of domestic abuse allegations against an assistant.

Speaking about the protest that toppled the Confederate statue, Chancellor Carol Folt said, “None of us were happy with the way that went.”

A college degree falls short of putting women on equal economic footing with men, and they have the student-loan burden to prove it.

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