Today's Clips (9/12/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

As the MIT Media Lab continues a reckoning over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein, tech and innovation leaders at other campuses say the scandal will likely ...

The three-year deal involves multiple facets of student life at Davidson College, including career development, civic engagement, athletics and others.

24/7 Wall St. created an index of acceptance rates, as well as SAT and ACT scores, to identify the hardest colleges to get into.

IN OTHER NEWS

What happened when Jeffrey Epstein funded science and tech? Women were excluded.

Higher education was meant to be a great equalizer. Paul Tough’s “The Years That Matter Most” suggests that colleges and universities are exacerbating inequality, not reducing it.

The Virginia Theological Seminary is setting aside $1.7 million to atone for its role in American slavery.

College Unbound offers a traditional 4-year degree in a nontraditional setting geared to the lives of working people.

Scholarship money doesn’t remove all the barriers to getting a postsecondary degree.

When I decided to attend Yale five years ago, people held me up as an example of a black student who “beat the odds.” I wish they were more curious about why my brother wound up in prison instead.

TRADES

Colleges try to combat the sexual assaults that spike at the start of each academic year, but experts say many officials don't give students sufficient training to protect themselves or vulnerable peers.

Most public flagship universities are failing to meet the financial needs of low- and middle-income students, a report finds, and are overly subsidizing wealthier students.

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