Today's Clips (10/30/19)
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Athletic departments and schools should also benefit from students’ sports celebrity.

A new survey and book show that for organizations to diversify, it’s not enough to let new people in. The institutions have to change, too.

Column: A much-ballyhooed decision by the NCAA is really just another attempt to kick the pay-for-play can farther down the road

The University of Arizona has announced it is changing its abbreviation from UA to UArizona in an effort to increase search engine optimization results for the college.

The NCAA board voted on Tuesday to allow athletes to profit from their names, images and likenesses, but much work still needs to be done to determine how that will work within NCAA rules.

The announcement came six months after students voted in a nonbinding referendum to create a reparations fund.

A coalition of California students and community groups is threatening to sue the University of California system unless it drops the SAT and ACT exams from its admissions requirements, arguing that the tests favor wealthy, white students at the expense of poorer black and Hispanic students.

Some Asian Americans are wondering how race might affect their chances of admission at Harvard, as well as other highly selective schools across the country.

Dan Gilbert and Stephen Ross are teaming up to develop the project in downtown Detroit that also could include a hotel and residential building.

The Radford City Police asks that anyone with information on this incident to contact them at 540-731-3624.

TRADES

High Point University illustrates the problems with the Justice Department's approach to antitrust issues in higher education, writes Jim Jump.

The University of Michigan will not reinstate its bias response team as part of a settlement with a nonprofit group that had argued that the team threatened free speech on campus, MLive reported.

Athletes should be given “the opportunity to benefit from the use of their name, image, and likeness in a manner consistent with the collegiate model,” the organization said in a news release.

The newest diversity leader lasted six weeks before concluding it was “not the right fit.” And last week, the only African American member of the president’s cabinet announced her resignation.

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