Today's Clips (12/10/18)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Wendy Raymond, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Davidson College in North Carolina, will become Haverford College's 16th president on July 1.

Ranking the top up-and-coming head coaches in college baseball.

IN OTHER NEWS

If you always succeed in school, you’re not setting yourself up for success in life.

Some of our best ideas are in the rearview mirror.

We spend too much money on college students and not enough on everyone else.

Stanford University is making changes in how it calculates undergraduate students’ financial aid to exclude the value of home equity, acknowledging that many families may be house rich but cash poor and see college as out of reach.

Prohibitive security fees will not reinforce the heckler’s veto.

Colleges and universities cannot waver on doing what’s right.

George Washington University has long had an outreach project teaching school children and others about the civil rights contributions of baseball legend Jackie Robinson. The university says the project is no longer financially viable, and will be ended.

Presidents of America's private colleges and universities saw their pay increase by nearly 4 percent in 2016, with dozens receiving more than $1 million, according to a new report .

Many Ohio State University students are taking a break from studying for final exams by making a bacon run.

Wes Hayes, the new chair of the Commission on Higher Education, is promising a more collaborative approach to dealing with the Legislature, colleges and universities in South Carolina.

‘No one can really get the help they need’: BYU students are questioning wait times at their campus counseling center after a public suicide - The Salt Lake Tribune

TRADES

A blind man is taking 50 colleges to court, alleging their websites are inaccessible to people with disabilities.

A close look at the percent plan in Texas suggests that high-talent, low-income student are encouraged by such policies to apply to competitive institutions. Could these approaches be more effective than holistic admissions?

Teaching assistants at the University of North Carolina’s flagship are threatening to withhold thousands of student grades unless the administration withdraws its plan to keep the Confederate statue on the campus.

The Chronicle’s 2018 executive-compensation report, on the presidents of private colleges, demonstrates that leaving a college under a cloud can result in a lot of greenbacks along with the pink slip.

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