Today's Clips (12/2/24)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

A modest proposal for fixing the back-to-back-holiday crunch

Davidson College professor of political science Susan Roberts shares her thoughts on the 2024 elections

Rice has hired Davidson's Scott Abell as the school's next football coach.

I sleep in bed, work in bed, and because I have two young kids, I parent in bed.

Media, courts and lawmakers can curb NC lawmakers radical turn

The medical school served Charlotte residents in the 1900s. Here’s a look back at its impact.

IN OTHER NEWS

Criminals turn college campuses into recruitment hubs, recruiting chemistry students in Mexico with big paydays.

Not since the swimmer Lia Thomas has a college athlete or team put the fiercely contested issue of transgender rights in sports under such a bright spotlight.

Education Department bureaucrats have turned the ‘simplified’ student-aid form into a mini census.

Lei Zhang helped university endowments and foundations make big returns in his native country, then the U.S. soured on China.

Won Jang, a student at the Ivy League college, drowned after attending a party hosted by sorority members where alcohol was served to underage attendees, police allege.

California lawmakers are set to consider a bill that would require the state's public universities to give admission priority to the descendants of slaves.

Luck will oversee every aspect of the program, both on and off the field, in an expanded role rarely seen in college football.
TRADES

Over half of students believe their professors are at least somewhat responsible for being a mentor to them. Faculty weigh in on the feasibility of this effort. A May 2024 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab found over half (55 percent) of students believe their professors are at least partly responsible for being a mentor. “Being a mentor” was the most popular response out of a list of eight options of responsibilities a professor could have in career development work; the second most popular was “preparing students for careers” at 52 percent.

Americans are fed up, and not just people who voted for Trump.

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