Today's Clips (6/8/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Former President Donald Trump’s early endorsement in the Republican primary for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat will have significant impacts on the race going forward, political experts told CBS 17 Monday.

Lincoln-Sudbury High School graduate Matthew Baird beat cancer his junior year but lost his older sister early in his senior year.

CORONAVIRUS

Some universities amid the pandemic have turned their attention to former students who dropped out before earning their degrees.

Providence High Principal Tracey Harrill says more students are taking a gap year or attending community college before working on a four-year degree.

The deaths have devastated the small Ivy League campus and sparked deep outrage among students, who say the school’s mental health resources have been woefully inadequate during an academic year blighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

IN OTHER NEWS

Despite a push last year to strip the name of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee from the Virginia school, its board of trustees voted 22-6 on Friday in favor of keeping its current name.

The Yale School of Medicine said the tone and content of a lecture by Dr. Aruna Khilanani, who has a private practice in New York, were “antithetical to the values of the school.”

A dispute centering on the celebrity professor Amy Chua exposes a culture pitting student against student, professor against professor.

The popular parent PLUS loans are made without regard to the ability of borrowers to repay, and have fewer protections when they can’t.

After an investigation into racism at VMI, alumni at the nation's oldest state-supported military college have split into warring factions. Can the school find a way forward?

College sports is entering a new era: Athletes will be permitted to be paid endorsers and social media influencers without fear of running afoul of NCAA rules

Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo, hits the philanthropic jackpot.

One day last winter, officials at Baltimore’s most prestigious research university made the kind of announcement that can cause even a powerful worldwide institution to reassess its long-standing self-image.

Selecting the freshman class of elite schools by lottery would democratize higher education, but at a cost.

The jury at Washington and Lee harkens back to Jim Crow juries—white, male, privileged, and rigged.

TRADES

Historically Black colleges and universities are forgiving students’ debts with the hopes of alleviating some of the financial strains of the pandemic and possibly providing them more financial freedom in the future.

College Board analysis is latest to find that community colleges suffered more than four-year colleges, but report also suggests that four-year colleges saw a loss of students with higher grades. And some states saw gains in enrollment at four-year colleges.

Starting in July, colleges in seven states will be barred from prohibiting students from earning money based on their affiliation with sports.

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