Today's Clips (9/4/23)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

A unique forum reveals rifts—and potential ways forward—in the quest to improve defense innovation.

Greetings, Watch readers! I’m Peter Beck, Radley’s intern, and I’ll be handling the latest round up. Radley also asked me to tell you a bit about myself. I’m currently a junior at Davidson College, where I’m studying political science and philosophy.
IN OTHER NEWS

A.I. chatbots can do a passable job of generating short essays. Whether their use on college applications is ethical is the subject of fierce debate.

ChatGPT might change the application essay forever.

The first high school seniors to apply to college since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision are trying to sort through a morass of conflicting guidance.

To get the maximum value out of those few golden years, treat them like leisure in the truest sense of the word.

How the failure of universities to provide a civic education has resulted in an intolerance of ideas.

New research points to the limits of education as a path to upward mobility for Black workers.

A studded headboard for your dorm bed

Descendants of 272 enslaved people gathered in Maryland to discuss their families’ shared past.

Laura Everett Bowling found out that her daughter had been randomly assigned to the same room she lived in during her first year at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

“There is no mandated or required emergency response training for faculty,” the university told The N&O.

"He tweeted at the university, prompting them to click on his Twitter. Once they saw his tweets, they rescinded his acceptance."

TRADES

Institutions have been flooded with fraudulent applications as scammers gum up admissions systems and steal financial-aid dollars. Combating it hasn’t been easy.

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