Today's Clips (7/16/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Evy Leibfarth has been kayaking and canoeing in whitewater for her entire life. Now, the 17-year-old from western North Carolina will paddle in the Tokyo Olympics. The prodigy found her passion and talent in the sport at an early age.

Andrea Peet has ALS, but she wants to complete a marathon in every state. She finished number 36 in Minnesota on Friday and hopes to bring awareness.

CORONAVIRUS

International students are eager to get to campuses, and schools are hungry for their tuition and housing dollars. Pandemic fallout is complicating the trip.

IN OTHER NEWS

There are star hirings and hundreds of millions in donations. But not every institution is sharing in the bounty, and some are struggling to survive.

The right needs to create institutions, not just restrict what the ones we have can teach.

It’s a bargain at twice the price, and the stigma is misplaced.

An anonymous open letter has reignited calls at Howard University to raise salaries, as well as end policies that require non-tenured lecturers to leave their teaching position after seven years and to reapply for their jobs at the end of each school year.

One student has filed a $5 million libel claim against the university president.

The divisions at Washington and Lee reflect similar scenarios unfolding on campuses throughout the country, as schools revisit institutional ties to slavery as well as legacies stemming from the Confederacy.

Penn State approves policy for rescinding university honors and distinctions | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

TRADES

AAUP says COVID-19 and years of unstable funding have led to “an existential threat to shared governance and academic freedom.”

President Biden has pledged to appeal a federal judge’s ruling against the program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Colleges find significant gains in enrollment of minority and low-income students, but also difficulties in predicting yield.

Suspecting bias, some scholars turn to the courts. More often, they fight through the court of public opinion.

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