Today's Clips (6/9/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Clint Smith on reckoning with history and collective memory in his new book, How the Word Is Passed, and how poetry informs his prose.

The pandemic accelerated the trend, upending conventions of postsecondary admissions going forward.

Women’s workforce participation has a long way to go to reach economic recovery.

IN OTHER NEWS

They wanted to help their college-age children, but wound up buried in debt. - The New York Times

The financial realities for college athletes will dramatically change this summer. State governments, the N.C.A.A. and Congress all have a hand in shaping what that might look like.

Linking academic freedom to tenure has led to an impoverished definition of the concept.

“I am not the one who needs this the most," Verda Tetteh said in a surprise speech at graduation.

Black female faculty members, long underrepresented in American academia, say it pains them to see the leader of the 1619 Project hired without tenure. “It hurts,” one said. “It’s a knife in the heart.”

TRADES

More than a dozen states considered or passed legislation targeting critical race theory this year. How has this academic concept become so politicized

Professors at the University of Chicago pay tribute to slain Ph.D. student's ideas by defending his dissertation.

The University of Utah’s decision-making process for its new telecommuting rules can serve as a guide for other colleges making similar transitions.

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