Today's Clips (7/9/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

By “unequivocally rejecting efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary,” the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is taking a radical position that is far removed from mainstream scholarship on the Holocaust and genocide. The Museum’s decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical. And it makes learning from the past almost impossible.

Richard (Rick) Halton and his husband, Jean-Marc Frailong, pledged $25 million for scholarships and campus programs to be determined later.

IN OTHER NEWS

Many families struggle to pay college expenses for one or two kids. Certified financial planner Sarah Carlson, mother of two sets of twins, will soon have all four of her children in college at the same time.

A Minneapolis-based firm founded in 2016 and operated by students at the University of Minnesota has just closed on $1.05 million for its first fund.

The federal government is experimenting with a program in which prisoners are given enough financial aid in the form of Pell Grants to cover the cost of a community college degree.

Along with students who are likely to succeed, college and universities want students that want them.

TRADES

As Education Department opens investigations into whether universities complied with law requiring federal reporting of foreign gifts and contracts, colleges call for more clarity on what the law requires.

Calls for expulsion for a Texas A&M student who used racial slurs in a video gone viral on campus -- only the latest incident to be caught on social media.

The university declined to comment on whether it plans to return any of the donations given by Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged on Saturday with sex trafficking.

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