Today's Clips (6/7/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Also remembered: A longtime private piano teacher; former dean of education at UNC Charlotte; Democratic activist who won a county award; a welding company owner whose work included uptown buildings.
IN OTHER NEWS

The Ivy League school said it would no longer share data with the college guide, the first major university to do so. Its relationship with U.S. News has been up and down.

The ruling wouldn’t only bring UNC’s nearly decade-long legal battle to defend affirmative action in undergraduate admissions to an end — it could also upend admissions practices nationwide.

Rep. Jim Jordan is demanding emails and meetings with leading disinformation researchers, part of a flurry of records requests, subpoenas and lawsuits that academics say have become tools of harassment.

The promotion of certain beliefs that some North Carolina lawmakers have likened to “critical race theory” is on track to be banned in state government workplaces

After a payment pause that has lasted more than three years, more than 40 million student loan borrowers will be on the hook for payments starting in late August

TRADES

Faculty members and other supporters of the liberal arts gathered at Ursinus College last week to debate what liberal education is and how best to attract students to it. What is liberal education? How can colleges support it? And how can they attract more students to pursue it? At a conference on such questions at Ursinus College, outside Philadelphia, the vice president for enrollment at Grinnell College, a far wealthier liberal arts institution in Iowa, shared the pitch he currently offers students and parents.

While some residential colleges have held firm on returning to fully in-person learning, others are embracing a flexible future.

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