Today's Clips (8/5/19)
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On campus, identity politics has become a dogma that damages independent thinking and the pursuit of truth.

Department of Education figures show that roughly 92,800 people who took out federal student loans and graduated with a master’s degree in business administration in 2016 and 2017 together had about $3.7 billion in such loans.

My daughter’s question showed me my aims at 21 weren’t what they are now.

significant demographic trends are having an impact on collegiate decisions across North Carolina, and especially at UNC. Over the past 40 years, the state’s population has nearly doubled, while the size of Carolina’s freshman class has risen only about 26 percent. 

When parents in the U.S. paid huge sums to secure places for their children in top schools, it was a scandal. In India, it's acceptable for parents to pay private universities for this purpose.

Amherst is joining the stampede of college endowments that have moved their offices to financial centers while bringing on a new chief investment officer.

The Operation Varsity Blues scandal didn't change anything.

For years, I’ve written about the hidden penalty that U.S. News & World Report imposes on Reed and other rebel colleges who refuse to cooperate with the rankings giant. Now a team of Reed students has come up with a way to estimate the magnitude of the hit.
TRADES

A spate of scandals has drawn attention to how the process of applying to college benefits the elite. College counselors say that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

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