Today's Clips (8/20/19)
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Michael S. Roth’s “Safe Enough Spaces” and Andrew Kronman’s “The Assault on American Excellence” differ on the battles roiling universities.

Published rankings of the world’s “best” colleges and universities, lawsuits claiming unfair admissions, and exposés of parents buying access to selective schools – these are all reminders of society’s fixation on the idea that getting into the right school guarantees success and happine

Let them order their own groceries, and other ways to land the helicopter so your child can make a smooth transition to adulthood.

Police on Tuesday hunted a black-clad attacker who stabbed to death a former California State University, Fullerton budget and finance director in the campus parking lot.

USA TODAY's exclusive database reveals which public universities have sharply decreased their in-state students in recent years.

On paper, the high school senior from British Columbia was a promising soccer player. So much so that UCLA admitted the teenager last fall as an athletic recruit and even awarded him a scholarship.

The Confederate monument on the UNC Chapel Hill campus was torn down by activists one year ago. The Board of Governors hasn’t found a solution for Silent Sam, but UNC is addressing the issue in the classroom.

The student population at Belmont Abbey College has recently reached more than 1,500 students, says Rolando Rivas, executive director for college marketing and communication. “We’re growing and trending up over the last five years.”
Princeton University gave a full scholarship to Marlin Gramajo, the daughter of a Los Angeles fast-food cook. But the school still expected her to chip in $2,000 from summer work and earn an additional $3,500 from campus jobs such as cleaning up the dining hall. That wasn’t easy.
TRADES

Repeated text message, email and mail reminders from a state's college system and the Common Application did not prompt more students to apply for FAFSA, a study finds.

Survey results in 2017 suggested typical conservatives have begun to share his dim view of higher ed.
Despite a “severe” malware attack, the Stevens Institute of Technology says it believes no personal data have been exploited.

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