Today's Clips (5/8/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Before Jordan Neely stepped on the F train, most of us had treated him like the walking dead, an empty body life had escaped long before that day, Issac Bailey writes about the homeless man who was killed May 1 on the New York subway. “I didn’t kill Neely,” Bailey says. “But I didn’t do much to save him, either.”

The recipients, mid-career artists from fields of dance, music, film/video, theater and visual arts, receive a $75,000 prize and CalArts residency

Thousands of students across North Carolina are preparing for college commencement. By the numbers: More than 8,000 students will graduate across Mecklenburg County’s six institutions this semester. State of play: Johnson & Wales kicked things off with their commencement ceremony on May 4 celebrating 320 graduates. Queens University of Charlotte is up next. Here are […]

Former Virginia men's basketball head coach and UVA director of athletics Terry Holland was honored on Saturday at John Paul Jones Arena.

IN OTHER NEWS

Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, said, “Among the very rich is a higher percentage of unpleasant and not very attractive people.”

We have more incentives to be heterodox.

Senior cords, which feature hand-drawn details, first appeared on campuses in Indiana. Now there are high-fashion takes.

Tutoring brands with U.S.-wide contracts were quietly sold over a year ago.

Ohio State could soon have a redoubt for free academic inquiry.

A great, if not notorious, tradition in college sports has been removed, with NIL rules driving some stars straight to their local dealerships.

TRADES

Jewish students are enrolling less at many of the Ivies and going to a broader range of institutions than before. Alumni and parents of traditionally observant Jewish students at the University of Pennsylvania gathered on Zoom earlier this year with leaders of the university’s Hillel, a campus organization for Jewish students. The meeting was to discuss declining Jewish enrollment, particularly among Orthodox students.

Applications are down, and some prospective professors are rejecting job offers even if they don’t have others in hand, say union representatives in Florida and Texas.

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