Today's Clips (4/8/24)
IN OTHER NEWS

Some Vanderbilt students will have $100,000 in total expenses for the 2024-25 school year. The school doesn’t really want to talk about it.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrations surrounded an appearance at a new research center named after the former secretary of state and presidential nominee at her alma mater.

I never got my degree and I have lots of student debt. And yet...

The president is set to outline a new proposal to reduce or eliminate debt for borrowers whose loan balance has ballooned because of unpaid interest.

Marketing officials are signing up student athletes to help pitch their accounts. “These athletes are very appealing to work with.”

Grades awarded by teachers in report cards can sometimes distort how much students are learning. We sometimes complain but do little about it.

Universities must break the monopoly and start welcoming alternative examinations that reflect the diverse and changing reality of the education landscape in this country.

More than 160 people diagnosed with cancer say they spent significant amounts of time in North Carolina State University’s Poe Hall, where carcinogenic compounds called PCBs were recently detected. WRAL’s Keely Arthur speaks with former students and staff demanding answers.

TRADES

Student activists say the decision was an ideological move long in the making. College officials say an academic boycott had nothing to do with it. Pitzer College, a private, liberal arts institution in California, recently dropped its study abroad program at the University of Haifa in Israel from its list of pre-approved programs.

Some think protests and politics are beside the point. They’re wrong.

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