Today's Clips (9/24/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Roundup of (some) of our writers' favorite Inno Under 25 winners from all 14 American Inno markets — cities (and states!) across the country. The winners are doing incredible things, all before they turn 26.

Climate change is threatening Lebanon's cedars, some of which are 1000 years old.

IN OTHER NEWS

Technical skills taught in college have a short shelf life, while a liberal arts education prepares graduates for jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

Chanel Miller, the woman previously known as “Emily Doe,” wrote her memoir as an act of reclamation. Jennifer Weiner reviews it.

Average scores dropped on the SAT this past test-taking cycle, with a greater percentage of high-school students not ready for college-level work, according to results released Tuesday by the College Board.

After a decade of booming enrollment by students from China, American universities are starting to see steep declines as political tensions between the two countries cut into a major source of tuition revenue.

A California executive is returning to court to be sentenced for his role in the college admissions scandal.

The University of North Carolina is disputing the Trump administration's accusations of bias in a Middle East studies program that the school operates with Duke University. In a letter sent...

A businessman is pulling his $5.3 million donation, plus interest, from the University of Mississippi and giving the money to a nonprofit group that does community work and owns a newspaper.

White students in my race and ethnicity class often learn the most, but few take it. All colleges should require a course like this to graduate.

Prosecutors in the admissions scandal cases shifted arguments, telling a judge that parents' behavior — not how much they paid — should determine prison time.

South Carolina health officials have declared a mumps outbreak at the College of Charleston after three individuals tested positive for the virus, college staff announced Monday, Sept. 23.

The university’s admissions practices are not, in fact, designed to accept the best people.

TRADES

Student activists at UNC Chapel Hill have created a text alert system that warns the campus when racist groups are nearby.

Federal appeals court rules that the University of Michigan's Bias Response Team might not be able to punish students, but it may still have powers that could limit free expression on campus.

Outside of the most highly publicized campus-culture clashes, students and professors are more open-minded than critics give them credit for.

Among students, liberals do outnumber conservatives. But a large share are moderates, and different types of institutions see different proportions of students claiming one of five political identities.

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