Today's Clips (6/14/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

President Tsai Ing-wen has tried to confront pressures from Beijing while building stronger ties with Washington.

IN OTHER NEWS

Defense lawyers are scrutinizing a federal judge’s ruling in hopes it might result in less prison time for the dozens of wealthy people charged in the nationwide college-admissions cheating scandal.

A dean at the university tells graduates all success stems from inherited privilege and chance.

Analysts say each of 50 Varsity Blues defendants has unique circumstances.

The San Diego high school senior called her counselor "unavailable," the office staff negligent and lambasted a teacher who was arrested at school.

Owners of a market in a famously liberal town were awarded $44 million in damages this week in their lawsuit claiming Oberlin College hurt their business and libeled them in a case some observers said embodied racial hypersensitivity and political correctness run amok.

The U.S. Education Department has opened investigations into foreign funding at Georgetown University and Texas A&M University as part of a broader push to monitor international money flowing to American colleges.

Holden Thorp, former UNC chancellor who left Chapel Hill amid major academic and athletic scandals, steps down again. This time to take one-year sabbatical after serving as Washington University provost.

The university is making 1,500 incoming freshmen eligible for options to delay enrollment, such as a gap year stipend. Now, students are trying to decide whether to take the offers.

Applying to college can make any high school senior feel like he or she is pleading a case before a judge and jury -- but one former Washington, DC, prep school student is trying to get her college woes heard by the Supreme Court.

The Winston-Salem women's college remains out of compliance with a single financial standard. A year ago, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges cited the school for

TRADES

A Columbia law adjunct is the latest person to leave a place in academe following the release of a new film on the Central Park Five.

A half-century of occasional breakthroughs — and a lot of disappointment.

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