Today's Clips (9/12/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Kestrel Linder was working on national security when he realized that he and his friends hadn't been giving back to their alma maters, despite their success and fond feeling for their schools. He discovered that they were part of a long-term trend and did something about it.

Not only that, says UPS's Janet Stovall, it's the only thing big enough to make a difference.

Secretary Anthony Foxx has been appointed distinguished executive in residence at Carnegie Mellon University for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Official practice won’t start for a month, but there is still plenty to be hyped about from the summer. These teams made moves to improve their stock for the 2018-19 season.

IN OTHER NEWS

What’s the highest calling of higher education? St. John’s College has some enduring answers.

As technological developments move at a rapid-fire pace, educational institutions are partnering with businesses like never before to train — and retrain — an aspiring work force.

Forty-four years ago David A. Thomas was accepted to Morehouse College but couldn't afford to attend. His second-choice school Yale University offered him financial aid so he graduated from Yale and went on to earn a doctorate there. Now president of Morehouse College he launched the academic year by moving into a dorm with incoming freshmen for a few days. He writes about what he learned there.

A flurry of state and local programs to cover students’ tuition and attention by top politicians made a national program seem possible. Then Trump won.

More than a dozen states offer what are known as free college programs. But a new review finds states vary wildly in how they define both "free" and "college."

UNCG, N.C. A&T and other colleges in the city will close this week because of concerns over the weather.

College football's 25 most valuable teams generate a combined $2.5 billion per year, and now the Texas A&M Aggies have surpassed the Texas Longhorns as the sport's most valuable team.

TRADES

The University of Missouri has new administrators, new policies and, leaders say, a new attitude after concerns over the racial climate in Columbia exploded in 2015. But challenges loom, and some are far from convinced enough has changed.

The department said colleges and schools could save hundreds of millions of dollars under its forthcoming sexual-misconduct regulations. But experts on the gender-equity law doubt that claim.

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