Today's Clips (4/15/24)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The city of Chicago rejected a part of the Bears, White Sox joint funding plan

IN OTHER NEWS

Emi Nietfeld didn’t have access to lacrosse or advanced placement classes, but she did have standardized tests.

The share of those paying the full advertised cost has declined over the last couple of decades, a new report found. Yet many don’t understand how much they’ll really pay.

Pro-Palestinian supporters disrupted a dinner for law students. There was a tussle over the microphone and conflicting claims of harm.

As a Jew and as a scholar, I feel a warmer welcome at Assumption, a Catholic institution.

UNC Charlotte is poised to gain R1 status in 2025 — a classification that recognizes the ever-increasing amount of research it conducts and its roster of top-level talent. It also stands to catapult the university — and region — forward.

The district also features mixed-use development, retail, offices and affordable housing.

TRADES

As delays to the FAFSA rollout piled up, so did an unusual number of errors, both on student forms and in the Education Department’s eligibility calculations. Up to 16 percent of the 7 million Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) forms submitted so far include student errors and require corrections, the Education Department announced last Wednesday—far more than usual. “We’re seeing much higher error rates from students,” said Jon Boeckenstedt, vice provost for enrollment management at Oregon State University. Though he didn’t have exact numbers, he said it seemed to be 3 to 4 times as many as in previous years.

Team handbooks have emerged as evidence used to bolster the argument that college athletes are employees, not amateurs.

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