Today's Clips (2/28/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

There are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in NC. UNCC canceled certain study abroad programs to China, South Korea, Japan and northern Italy.

Scott Mason tells us of an 18th century man, his link to Davidson College and to the famous Frenchman, Napoleon Bonaparte.

IN OTHER NEWS

While cooperating with federal agents, William Singer took notes saying that they instructed him to tell his clients that payments were bribes, not donations.

The Education Department demanded that the University of Southern California overhaul the way it addresses sexual misconduct charges and offer remedies to the doctor’s patients.

A federal judge determined that the first trial for parents in the Varsity Blues college-admissions cheating case will begin in October, even as a side battle over newly disclosed evidence brews between lawyers for the government and for defendants.

Colleges and universities are canceling study-abroad trips to China, South Korea, Japan and Italy as reported cases of the coronavirus continue to spread—and are scrambling to accommodate the students once they come back home.

A professor at the University of Tennessee has been arrested on charges that he hid his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving research grants from the federal government, the Justice Department said Thursday.

A student alleges in a lawsuit that she was sexually assaulted by a college professor at a college on Long Island, New York, during an April 2016 classroom demonstration.

The bill in Colorado has been uncontroversial, a fact that would have been surprising just a year ago.

TRADES

The University of California's second annual conference on campus free speech turned into an actual exercise in free speech when student protesters unexpectedly showed up.

“Social mobility” is the talk of the sector. But are college leaders, policy makers, and funders pulling the right levers?

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