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Florida State University’s athletics department will be exempt from public-records laws, but its president, John Thrasher, said it would continue its policies in handling requests. (PREMIUM)
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A Georgia-based company is selling off Newbury College’s desks, computers, and even classroom supplies. The chief executive says other, unnamed colleges are in the pipeline. (PREMIUM)
The university said comments in 2017 by Kyle Kashuv, a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting, violated its policies on students’ moral character, according to documents he posted.
As we reported in 2017, evidence of Turning Point USA’s influence in student-government campaigns can be found on campuses from coast to coast. (PREMIUM)
Commercialization requires early-stage capital and executive guidance, industry veterans say. Your entrepreneurial freshmen understand that, but does your leadership? (PREMIUM)
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