Today's Clips (9/28/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Joelle Dietrick’s work featuring an extinct plant, a net-positive house and concentric circles will be produced this week starting on Wednesday and continuing through Sunday.

In the summer of 1971 President Richard Nixon declared “drug use public enemy number one,” signaling the dramatic escalation of punitive measures against users, peddlers, and makers of narcotics at home and abroad. Fifty years later, the toll of the all-out effort to criminalize narcotics is staggering.

CORONAVIRUS

They expected their 20s to be a time for friends and the passage to adulthood. Instead, they drifted into isolation. Now thousands of young people are struggling to socialize again.

IN OTHER NEWS

Through the pandemic, Markus Brunnermeier conducted remarkable video seminars with leading thinkers in his field.

130 Georgetown University students and employees sickened with gastrointestinal illness - The Washington Post

A former soccer coach at the University of Southern California wept as she told a jury she had betrayed college athletes by sneaking children of the wealthy into the school as sports recruits for a few thousand dollars.

After at least two students reported they were drugged and assaulted, a group decided to immediately cancel all fraternity events through Oct. 17.

A North Carolina State University professor is suing the school’s Board of Trustees in federal court over what he describes as "retaliation" for his comments criticizing social justice ideology.

Comerford said higher education presidents have a responsibility to focus on more meaningful pursuits, like access and affordability for low-income and diverse students.

A national group is launching a campaign to end “legacy” preferences, using an alumni donations boycott.

What is "melt" and why are college admissions departments sweating over it this year?

The University of Houston is hoping an extra boost to its teams will increase the school’s standing. But athletics can lead to even more debt

Colleges are using new simulation-based programs to help train freshman about important topics such as substance use and sexual misconduct prevention. Here's how they work.

TRADES

Professors in Iowa and Georgia are acting on their own to require masks in their classrooms.

We asked readers about their institutions’ support for parents on the tenure track. There’s room for improvement, they said.

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