Today's Clips (5/31/24)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Davidson College Professor Susan Roberts discusses political ramifications with timing of sentencing, Republican conventions.

“We Republicans could listen and speak, but mostly were ignored. Some things don’t change.”

A development program at South Arkansas College helps men’s basketball players consider their path after their athletic career. From an athletics perspective, South Arkansas College has a successful men’s basketball team. This past season, the SouthArk Stars won their district championship and advanced to the NJCAA Region II championship for the first time in program history.  But college leaders are investing in the players’ success off the court, as well, through career development initiatives.  

Proof-of-concept for therapy that harnesses immune system to fight fentanyl adulterant

IN OTHER NEWS

The billionaire Rob Hale gave the 1,200 graduates of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth a gift, and asked them to give, too.

The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among college students rose to 7.5 percent in 2022, more than double the rate five years earlier, researchers found.

A nonprofit group is publicizing the relief program that Navient, a large lender, created for students who attended for-profit schools that misled them.

A generation raised to believe it could change the world learns that the rest of the world may not share its vision.

Professors from Harvard to Cambridge feel obliged to caution students before displaying ancient human remains; drawings and plastic skeletons fill the void.

Slow responses by the federal agency that oversees gender equity policies in college sports led to long delays, a government watchdog has found.

TRADES

Pro-Palestinian encampments and protests strained college policies this spring. As summer sets in, some are revising rules ahead of a potentially tumultuous fall. The pro-Palestinian encampments that once crowded U.S. campuses have mostly dissipated now, vanishing with the end of the academic year.

Are college students’ mental-health apps helping them? There’s surprisingly little evidence one way or the other. A team of researchers is trying to change that.

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