Today's Clips (9/3/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
To be a parent in America now is to carry both the mundane, expected grief of letting children go and the fear of far more tragic loss. I’m getting teary-eyed at a fruit stand, running my fingers lightly over the fuzzy skin of a peach while willing my bottom lip to stop its ridiculous quiver.
IN OTHER NEWS

Politicians and donors want to impose one set of solutions. Schools around the country are trying to find their own way.

The Trump administration will resume canceling the student-debt obligations of Americans who prove that their colleges defrauded them, under a long-awaited plan unveiled Friday.

The students were plucked from across the Shenandoah Valley.

Andrew Hsu wants to make the College of Charleston a world-class facility.

Newly released documents show that a $50 million gift to Virginia’s largest public university was given specifically to “promote the conservative principles of governance,” raising concerns from critics that that it compromises academic freedom

America’s universities have become battlegrounds in recent years, gripped by a fanatical brand of left-wing identity politics that pushes aggressively policed speech codes, complex systems of trigger warnings and the near-total suppression of contrary thought.

"It's going to be brutal across American higher education," he said

Campus sexual assault returns as a threat with the start of college and the new academic year. A lawyer offers advice.

In college classrooms, where almost anything is up for discussion, religious ideas are met with awkward silence.

TRADES

Colorado College and Rhode Island School of Design are among latest to embrace the trend.

The National Association for College Admission Counseling sent a message to members saying the Justice Department had objected to some provisions, saying they “inhibit, to some extent, competition among colleges for students.”

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