Today's Clips (11/15/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The founders of UATX do have a point — but they're also missing something important about the higher ed landscape.

The foundation for Warriors star Stephen Curry's NBA success was laid at Davidson College by head coach Bob McKillop.

IN OTHER NEWS

The notoriously bureaucratic N.C.A.A. is gearing up for debates about what it should look like going forward.

As a low-income, first-generation college student, I managed the impossible. And it only convinced me that the system is broken.

The trend represents a recovery from a year earlier, when the pandemic pushed classes online and the Trump administration all but closed the nation’s borders.

The prestigious private university hired a for-profit firm to recruit students to its social-work master’s program. “You don’t feel like you’re part of an elite school.”

Student athletes who play volleyball, soccer, water polo and other sports can get a piece of the financial action.

Banks, consulting firms and technology companies are willing to pay a premium to lure business-school graduates in a tight labor market.

Year in and year out, the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. gets more applications than any other law school in the country (and yes, that includes law schools at Harvard and Yale and Stanford). But what happened for the 2021-22 school year was historic.

The combination of a stronger labor market and a fewer young people poses an existential challenge to higher education’s business model.

Dave Chapelle showed that being cancelled isn't all that bad. Hence, this racist and transphobic school featuring Bari Weiss and Andrew Sullivan is a grift.

TRADES

Democrats’ big social spending plan would provide much-need federal financial aid to undocumented students—but only a fraction of them.

When a faculty member at Indiana University questioned how its new president had been picked, a top official impugned his motives and a law firm looked into his emails.

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