Today's Clips (1/30/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Susan Johnston, NACUBO president and CEO, and Ed Kania, vice president for business and finance, and treasurer at Rollins College, discuss the CBO role and the challenges higher education is facing today, including the importance of active listening in organizational leadership, a concept that both leaders strongly believe in and follow.

IN OTHER NEWS

If they’re not held accountable at school, what’s to stop them from becoming the villain of another woman’s #MeToo story once they enter the work force?

Elite colleges including Oberlin, George Washington University and the University of Chicago have extended their application deadlines in an effort to boost enrollment, a sign of the growing pressure many schools face to fill incoming classes.

Duke professor Megan Neely urged Chinese students in an email to speak English. It’s the latest of several recent racial or cultural incidents on campus.

Duke administrator told Chinese grad students they should speak only English or risk getting professional placements. The university’s diversity office will review the program and recommend ways to improve the learning environment for all students.

UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt posed in Carolina blue and handed out pizza and cupcakes Tuesday to the hundreds of students who lined up to take selfies with her. She wanted to say goodbye to students before she leaves the university this week.

Wells Fargo Foundation will pay to bring Harvard experts to Charlotte to bolster leadership at 29 urban Charlotte Mecklenburg schools. It’s a spinoff from the $50 million Project LIFT.

Maria Lopez is a 17-year-old with an almost perfect GPA.

But Lopez is an unauthorized immigrant.

TRADES

Middlebury College announced Tuesday that it will sell holdings in its endowment in fossil fuel companies, phasing them out over 15 years and beginning this year no longer making new such investments. Many of the colleges that have announced such policies are quite small, so the impact (financially) is minimal. Middlebury, however, has an endowment valued at more than $1 billion.

Author discusses in her upcoming book why chapter members drink and participate in "rape culture."

Liberty University is standing by its chief information officer despite reports that he accepted cash to rig online polls for Donald Trump.

The documents outline academics’ experience working with people from different backgrounds. As the requests become more common, they’re drawing more scrutiny.

Last year my colleagues at Entangled Solutions offered their predictions for what would unfold in higher education in 2018. We talked about financial ...

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