Today's Clips (4/8/22)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

President Joe Biden's nominees to the Federal Reserve moved a step closer to confirmation Thursday after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer entered procedural motions for two of them, setting up for a potential vote after lawmakers return from Easter Break on April 25.

CORONAVIRUS

Rising coronavirus cases are pushing at least two D.C.-area campuses to temporarily reinstate old mask and testing rules.

IN OTHER NEWS

How prestigious universities value student trauma.

When a Confederate flag was hung from the window of a dormitory at Harvard University more than 30 years ago, members of the Black Students Association saw it as an attempt to tell them they did not belong there.

The suit claims Walden University not only misrepresented the costs and credits required for an advanced degree but also engaged in “reverse redlining” by targeting minority communities.

Students can submit standardized test scores when they apply to UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State and other schools if they want, but they don’t have to.

The changes will particularly focus on state money being allocated to in-state students. Tuition will cover the costs of out-of-state students.

Universities have to be extremely careful about how they interact with student causes if they want to avoid being held liable for protesters’ words and actions.

A former Florida prep school administrator who took college entrance exams for students in exchange for cash to help wealthy parents get their kids into elite universities is facing sentencing.

TRADES

Students, parents, employees and administrators at historically Black colleges and universities are wrestling with the mental health challenges caused by repeated bomb threats.

Nine days after a joint committee of the South Carolina General Assembly castigated members of the University of South Carolina Board of Trustees and refused to endorse the re-election of five board members whose terms expire this year, a bill is being debated in the State Senate to fire all current trustees, reduce the total number on the board and elect a new board next year.

Researchers who submit to the publication say survey answers are subject to errors, ambiguity, and pressure to look good.

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