Today's Clips (4/5/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The Curry black and yellow “Blackout Belk” jersey is one of two in existence according information provided to authorities on March 21.

We all know how much Curry loves golf, so this makes perfect sense...

IN OTHER NEWS

Sylvia Hatchell was placed on leave after players’ families complained to university officials, according to two people with direct knowledge of the accusations.

Harvard University is investigating its head fencing coach over financial transactions he made with the family of a current and a former student on the team, including a home sale shortly before the younger one applied to the school.

The students connected to the scandal largely played sports that cost the schools money to run without bringing in money. Those sports’ overheads are mostly paid for by the revenue generated from sports stocked by black male athletes.

Tennessee Reconnect has helped thousands of adults afford a college education, but for many older students, the financial support may not be enough to get them to the finish line.

College and universities routinely send financial aid letters to prospective students that are utterly confusing. New legislation would require these letters to be uniform and easy to understand.

Two Chinese engineering students in Oregon allegedly scammed Apple out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in iPhone replacements and are now facing criminal charges in federal court, as first reported by The Oregonian. Authorities allege the students pulled off a convoluted scheme in order to wring Apple of the cash by using counterfeit devices and exploiting Apple’s return policy.

A proposal to end a tax benefit for donations to colleges in response to the admissions scandal would penalize schools and the many students those donations serve, writes the president of the Oregon Alliance of Independent Colleges and Universities.

Dartmouth will change its practices to protect the integrity of the admissions process for incoming athletes following a federal investigation that uncovered a widespread college admissions scandal and resulted in the arrest of 50 people.

TRADES

A wealthy man bought the fencing coach's house, apparently overpaying significantly. Then the man's son was admitted to Harvard and joined the team. Also, Dartmouth announces new protocols to prevent abuses related to athletic admissions.

Brown University announced Wednesday that it will cover the textbook and course material costs of 1,100 students from low-income families in the 2019 academic year. The program is an expansion of a one-year pilot program which covered the textbook costs for 85 low-income undergraduate students in their first year and found a positive impact on academic engagement.

A Duke U Ph.D., now a professor at U of Oklahoma, wants to know why a professor at Duke facing multiple harassment allegations -- including hers -- was honored by the university and on her former department's social media.

More than 500,000 students have been displaced in the past five years, many of them working adults who had hoped that college would be their path to the middle class.

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