Today's Clips (1/21/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The Davidson College men's basketball program is best known for producing NBA superstar Stephen Curry. This week on Only A Game, another story out of Davidson ... about the math-minded students who are helping the athletic department.

McGill professor resigns over university's repeated votes to keep investing in fossil fuels.

A case of déjà vu all over again has ultimately proven too much for one longtime area premier basketball player to accept.

IN OTHER NEWS

The lessons of the last recession were harsh but clear. Public colleges need plenty of money during economic declines.

America has been inconsistent at best when it comes to deciding what 18- to 21-year-olds are too young, or just old enough, to do.

Nowhere else on Earth is so much money spent in pursuit of the amateur ideal.

School officials who still hew to the tradition need to ask themselves: What purpose is being served?

As they return for spring semester, they’re doing what they can to avoid paying big bucks for books.

Some institutions are working to improve weak returns from licensing and patents.

Students at Washington and Lee University want the option of receiving a diploma without the portraits of the university's namesakes: George Washington and Robert E. Lee.

Dickinson College will soon consider a proposal that would rename three campus buildings because the people whose names adorn the buildings were advocates for slavery. The proposal includes Armstrong and Cooper Residential Halls, named after John Armstrong and Thomas Cooper.

TRADES

What chief academics officers think about the academic health of their institutions, the role of tenure, general education and much more.

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