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

Gig-Hub is a program at Davidson College that matches employers with students who have skills that are in high demand for startups: web development, research, data analytics and videography, among others.

The three Aussies outscored Georgetown in the first half as Davidson rolled to an opening night win.

Davidson gets a big win over Butler behind Wesley Dugger’s record-breaking day; East Carolina racks up offense against SMU but falls

IN OTHER NEWS

Students at elite colleges seek to undermine the values that service members signed up to defend.

An army of nonfaculty staff push for action and social justice at the expense of free inquiry.

Supporters from the "America First" faction of President Trump's vocal far-right base heckled Donald Trump Jr. at a book talk as part of a campaign to upend Turning Point USA events.

Universities at Shady Grove brings high-tech degree programs to Montgomery County, Md.

The Supreme Court is taking up the Trump administration's plan to end legal protections that shield 660,000 immigrants from deportation, a case with strong political overtones amid the 2020 presidential election campaign.

While the state of North Carolina as a whole lags behind in educational attainment, the Research Triangle is in another stratosphere altogether. It has become one of the strongest tech hubs in the country.

At one Illinois school, first-generation students — the first in their families to go to college — make up 43% of the student population. The school has a program to help them navigate college.

The idea of tuition-free college isn't a new concept for some schools. Two colleges in Kentucky have been making it work for years.

Over the past seven months, The Intercollegiate has requested documents from every NCAA Division I university relating to athlete exit surveys conducted during the 2018-19 academic year. And the fruits of that endeavor — a lavish sampling, anyway — is now open for public viewing at The Intercollegiate’s “Library.”

TRADES

In a break with precedent, no faculty or academic staff have been appointed to the search committee for the University of Wisconsin system president, Madison.com reported. Faculty members and academic staff members have served on the committees that led the searches for the last three system presidents.

Trump administration's Education Department says the Arizona university remains a for-profit, a surprising decision that may dump cold water on other nonprofit conversion bids.

Six current and former graduate students filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Illinois at Chicago, its Title IX investigators, and the accused professor, Paul Schewe. “Nobody is safe in the #MeToo era,” he says.

Wichita State University's Faculty Senate thinks less is more when it comes to gen ed.

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