Today's Clips (8/28/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

I want our girls to grow up knowing that there are no boundaries that can be placed on their futures, period.

IN OTHER NEWS

Universities are facing challenges to their mental health leave policies, with some critics saying they are too quick to cast off troubled students.

A top student-loan official at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resigned and released a letter saying Trump administration officials running the bureau were undermining staff work on enforcement cases.

Real-estate developers are investing in hotels on or near college campuses, in one of the latest boomlets in the lodging industry.

Let's stop overselling the benefits of a traditional college education to a generation that can't afford it.

The cost of textbooks could feed a family of four for a week.

Why is the nation’s flagship loan forgiveness program failing the people it’s supposed to help?

Colleges have long offered a pathway to success for just about anyone. But new research shows that with the country growing ever more economically divided, colleges are not doing enough to help students from poor families achieve the American Dream.

TRADES

New research should have admissions counselors thinking about how they offer advice, writes Jim Jump.

A new survey reveals that not only do business executives value college, they want students with skills associated with the liberal arts.

Employers have more confidence in graduates’ readiness for entry-level work than for advancement, a new survey has found. How does that square with colleges’ claims that they prepare students for life?

Don’t ever stop teaching and doing research, say those who have succeeded as professors again.

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