Today's Clips (11/8/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The Atlantic and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) convened various leaders in education and business to discuss civic education on Wednesday at the Newseum in Washington D.C.

IN OTHER NEWS

College coaches struggle to find athletes who can’t pay to play elite youth sports. So Amherst College administrators have reconsidered what it takes to recruit.

Mary Cain’s male coaches were convinced she had to get “thinner, and thinner, and thinner.” Then her body started breaking down.

The University of California may scrap admissions testing.

Many celebrated colleges and universities were created at the expense of Indigenous communities.

The South Bend, Ind., mayor unveiled a big economic plan Friday that’s a middle lane between Biden and Warren. Buttigieg is proposing universal pre-kindergarten, a major expansion of affordable housing and job training, and a tax credit for the working poor. He would pay for the programs with a take hike on the top 1 percent of earners.

In October 2018, then-Chancellor Carol Folt announced that the University would rededicate Kenan Stadium to William Rand Kenan Jr. so as not to honor his father, who was the commander of a white supremacist unit. More than a year later, the University has covered a plaque with temporary signage. 

Videos criticizing Weber State University instructor as ‘anti-white’ spark probe - The Salt Lake Tribune

The move comes after the university acknowledged it under-reported the number of rapes and other crimes on campus in recent years. Texas State's president told students Thursday that the school is cooperating with the federal agency and has already made reforms.

The cost of college can be much higher than the salaries its graduates earn — even if it's an elite university.

TRADES

Eleven universities in Virginia have been promised just under $1 billion in state funding to substantially grow their computer science programs.

Sigma Phi Epsilon leaves a fraternity trade association, saying the organization needs to do more for student safety.

Babson College recruited Marwa Mohsen to join a new institution bearing the name of Mohammed bin Salman. When the job soured, she felt that she had nowhere to turn.

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