Today's Clips (5/13/19)
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Mined Minds came into West Virginia espousing a certain dogma, fostered in the world of start-ups and TED Talks. Students found an erratic operation.

As the number of African-American baseball players continues to decline, black players are often surprised to find themselves in the minority even at historically black colleges.

Private colleges and universities are offering bigger discounts for freshmen amid fierce competition for a price-conscious pool of students.

Fraternities and sororities will no longer be allowed at Swarthmore College following outrage over years-old documents allegedly written by one fraternity there that contains derogatory comments about women and the LGBTQ community and jokes about sexual assault.

There’s talk about whether the school was complicit, issuing permits for open parties when the bedrooms were known to be accessible.

Felicity Huffman is set to plead guilty in Boston federal court on Monday to charges in the nation's largest-ever college admissions scandal.

Trying to get professors fired because you don’t like their views isn’t activism—it’s preening would-be totalitarianism.

The university's $25.9 billion endowment moves (slowly) to hire managers owned by women and minorities.

UNC Charlotte spent millions of dollars and countless hours preparing for the possibility of an on-campus shooter. When it happened, everything worked as planned—and two died.

UNC Charlotte in North Carolina held its graduation ceremonies less than two weeks after a school shooting left students, Riley Howell and Reed Parlier, dead. A $1 million scholarship fund will honor them.

TRADES

Boston Globe notes pattern with gifts to Yale and other highly competitive colleges.

Most professors found to have violated Title IX policies don't share it with the world. This one did, as he resigned.

Students in residential college he has led said the law professor's decision to defend Harvey Weinstein was "trauma inducing." He also has a long record fighting for those incarcerated unfairly.

A controversial law giving Ball State University control of its city’s schools will soon be a year old. Can a state university confront long-term threats by focusing closest to home?

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