Today's Clips (5/21/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Let's praise Robert F. Smith, writes Issac Bailey -- and heed the problem his donation to Morehouse students has laid bare: a lone billionaire or a gaggle of billionaires will never be enough to solve our growing student debt crisis.

Over the past 30 years there have been many moments when Taiwan-watchers worked themselves into a tizzy worrying about the potential for conflict in the Taiwan Strait. Until now, though, I have been confident that worst-case thinking was unjustified, and the chances of open conflict were low.
IN OTHER NEWS

The Morehouse College class of 2019 will walk into adult life unburdened by student debt. What about everyone else?

Adding college students back into family life is rarely as simple as rebooting their high school days.

Metropolitan areas long offered work and wages that drew job seekers. Now it depends on your education, and the ability to offset high housing prices.

Duke and the University of North Carolina are fierce competitors on the basketball court, but when it comes to medical hiring, they have been cozy collaborators, according to a class action that Duke moved to settle for $54.5 million.

Paying off the student loans of an entire graduating class is no small feat and not just because of the money involved.

Other than Hillsdale and a handful of other private and religious colleges, the American university has become nothing more than a left-wing seminary.

As the investigation continues, a key question is what universities knew and whether more could have been done to detect the widespread fraud.
TRADES

Scandal-plagued University of Southern California has a new president coming in, but many believe the institution can't really change without a true overhaul of its large and quarrelsome Board of Trustees.

The private institutions, in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, have rarely, if ever, had to worry about filling their classes.

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