Today's Clips (11/22/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Davidson is going back to the FCS playoffs for the second straight season.

Embracing new challenges is something Yangzi Jiang has been doing since he was a teenager, when treatment for osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, required his right leg to be amputated below the knee.

The verdict was celebrated on the right, while many on the left expressed fears it would embolden vigilantism.

You've convinced me I was wrong to have ever believed otherwise. Let us all carry guns.

The disputed status of Taiwan has been an issue for almost three quarters of a century. Now for some reason Taiwan has moved from a tolerable friction point between the U.S. and China to a potential flashpoint.

CORONAVIRUS

As the holidays approach, universities say continuing their mask mandates is essential.

IN OTHER NEWS

The obstacles to earning a degree can be plentiful. Nonprofit groups lend a hand so New Yorkers can navigate their path forward.

Embracing intellectual diversity means being brave enough to consider ideas and practices that might inspire you to change your life.

How can schools boast about their student bodies being the best and the brightest when their admission policies are not about merit alone but are tilted to favor students privileged by the circumstances of their birth?

A look at which higher education provisions made it into the newly passed House bill.

The agreement could add pressure on other wealthy universities and colleges facing calls to contribute more financially to their hometowns, especially following a record year of endowment returns.

Flu outbreaks on college campuses including the University of Michigan suggest the U.S. could be in for a bad flu season this year.

Undergraduates at the school finish their degree with an average of $27,000 in student loan debt. A new program could make that number zero.

When a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of murder charges last week, that development hampered the progress of science, a Virginia university's chemistry department suggested in a series of online posts that at least one critic is deriding as inappropriate “politicized rhetoric.”

The meeting came five months after the tribe and six others filed a joint claim for almost 6,000 remains and objects once buried at Moundville Archaeological Park.

TRADES

Unlike most other debt-free programs at large public universities, this one would not be specifically based on undergraduates’ income, meaning many middle-class families could benefit.

What UATX tells us about higher ed, the media, and the culture at large.

The Berklee College of Music, in Boston, did not have classes Thursday and will have online classes only through Tuesday, Nov. 23. A notice on the college's website said, “Classes will be cancelled for Thursday, November 18, and we will be working with faculty to move to remote instruction beginning Friday, November 19. This mode of instruction will be in effect through

A lawsuit alleges that the evangelical Christian university has created policies that dissuade students from reporting sexual violence and punish those who do.

Old Dominion University removed a controversial scholar from campus, in part for safety reasons. Some say the scholar is really being punished for bringing taboo topics out into the open.

The university adds music, seating, food trucks and tent rentals to pre–football game tailgates, hoping to draw students who have never felt welcome at the fraternity-dominated events.

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