Today's Clips (8/7/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Media outlets increasingly construct narratives about collective reality based on what’s happening on social media.

For the 5th time in 5 years, Mega Millions has topped a billion. Previous winners have come from different states, but Texas has yet to have a billion dollar jackpot winner in Powerball or Mega Millions.

IN OTHER NEWS

‘Griffin’s gift signals . . . to universities that they will continue to pay no price for a political agenda antithetical to mainstream American values.’

For many students, managing finances is new, and they’re prone to make all sorts of mistakes.

The Biden administration is facing pushback from people whose refunds were confiscated to pay down other debts.

We should appreciate this great adventure of choosing a college will often be messy and incomplete. But you will eventually stumble on something wonderful.

Legacy? Wealthy? Who decides who gets in?

Things have gotten so crazy as the Pac-12 falls apart, North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham actually held a staff call to tell his department they were staying in the ACC.

Conference realignment should be called college football consolidation because that’s what’s happening

American conservatives are taking cues from Hungary’s Viktor Orbán because elite education is a convenient enemy for authoritarian populists.

TRADES

The Supreme Court ruling sent institutions scrambling to ensure compliance. Some say it’s also enabled politically motivated overreach. Late last month, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees gathered for its first in-person meeting since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action.

Bureaucracy, institutional self-interest, and minor systemic snags can make moving from community college through a four-year institution almost unbearably difficult.

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