Today's Clips (7/26/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Davidson ranked 7th overall, 4th among small liberal arts colleges.
UNC-Chapel Hill offers students a better value for their college education than any other public university in the country, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine.
IN OTHER NEWS

Bullet holes are visible in the photo of the memorial plaque, which marks the spot where the body of a murdered 14-year-old black boy was found in 1955.

The private university on the coast of Virginia said it fired the officers after an investigation uncovered offensive remarks they shared on social media.

The chancellor of UNC Charlotte said students will return to more police and other security measures on campus this fall, months after two students were killed and other were injured in a classroom shooting.

How Jerry Falwell Jr. silences students and professors who reject his pro-Trump politics. A report by alumnus Will E. Young.

Claude Mabowa Sasi had lost his mother, a brother and a sister to Ebola. Instead of fearing death when he, too, was diagnosed with the disease, the young man had a different worry: How would he complete his college entrance exams?

Signed into law by Gov. Wolf on June 28, the Fostering Independence Through Education Act waives tuition for youth who were in foster care at age 16 or older, including those who have “aged out” of the system or been adopted.

A lesson the Democrats have lately forgotten.

A softball coach at Bemidji State University in Minnesota has been dismissed from the program after being placed on a leave of absence earlier this year.
TRADES

The University of Bridgeport and Marlboro College on Thursday announced plans to merge. Marlboro, a liberal arts college in southern Vermont, enrolls just 142 students, according to federal data. The University of Bridgeport's campus is located about 140 miles away, in Connecticut. The private university enrolls roughly 5,500 students and offers master's and doctoral degrees, as well as certificates and associate and bachelor's degrees.

This particular bird is notorious on Santa Barbara’s campus for scratching unsuspecting heads near the student union. Like most birds that swoop down on humans, McCulloch’s attacker was most likely protecting its young during nesting season.

About a year ago, Sen. Chris Murphy trained his eye on the college-sports industrial complex. He didn’t like what he saw.

The sudden crisis stems from an unexpected consequence of Obama-era rules, intended to protect online students’ interests, that the Trump administration is putting into effect.

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