Today's Clips (9/4/18)
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New luxury services offer to whisk families on a private jet outfitted with college regalia and staffed with a personal college admissions counselor.

Learn how to be a good American, challenge your teachers, study a language, and tackle hard subjects.

Some private colleges are offering to match public universities’ in-state tuition, in an escalation of the battle for students.

Announced attendance dropped 3.2% in football’s top division last season, but schools’ ticket scans show even fewer fans in stands.

There's a big change in its financial aid status that hurts the school.

A poll found that two-thirds of 14- to 23-year-old students want a degree to provide financial security. Colleges have been slow to react to this shift in the mind-set.

The chancellor of North Carolina’s flagship university strongly indicated the school won’t return a torn-down Confederate statue to the main quad where it used to stand.

Nearly 17 million students head to college this fall. About half are financially independent from their parents, and nearly one in four is a parent caring for a child.

TRADES

Two institutions grapple with how they should deal with revelations of faculty members' histories of sexual misconduct. Court orders reinstatement of one.

Class action suit says College Board's use of recycled questions hurt all test takers. Some push for scores from August to be abandoned; advocates for international students say they are being scapegoated.

Liberal-arts institutions are coming to see educational and vocational ideals as complementary.

The problem is extreme at the University of California at Santa Cruz, but hundreds of colleges are short of space.

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