Today's Clips (8/19/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

From Huntersville to Statesville, families who live in homes built by Our Towns Habitat for Humanity say they’re better off than before moving into their home, according to a recent

At a time when similar programs at HBCUs are struggling to survive, the two-time NBA MVP is planning a seven-figure donation to cover the cost of Howard’s golf program for six years.

IN OTHER NEWS

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new student loan ombudsman is a former compliance official at a loan servicer that government auditors have criticized.

Four Southeastern Conference schools are the latest to expand alcohol sales at football stadiums amid widespread attendance declines.

Our students have real-world opportunities to practice the things they’re learning about in classrooms, and our robust career services office ensures they find great first jobs that start them on great careers.

Most parents have spent the high school years working with their kids to help them prepare academically, while focusing secondarily on the extracurricular activities that go on the college application. But some important lessons are missing here.

Hate crimes are on the rise on college campuses, FBI data shows.

The technologists building our future don’t lack for confidence. Silicon Valley brims with pride about what it can make and how it will transform everything.

Getting kids to college is only a starting point. Helping them complete a degree program is the end goal. AVID has its priorities straight.

Simple nudges can help would-be students get the financial aid they deserve and enroll in college.

The Slane Student Center at High Point University holds a 450-seat cafe, a food court, the campus post office and bookstore and student recreation areas, including a basketball court, a weight room and an indoor running track.

Four months after a gunman entered a classroom at UNC Charlotte and shot six students, killing Riley Howell and Ellis Parlier. Four others, including Drew Pescaro, survived.

UL football coach Billy Napier unveiled a new team rule in his normal mid-week August camp press conference Wednesday. Starting with the beginning of this school year, all scholarship UL football players will be required to be a minimal level $50 member of the RCAF.
TRADES
The University of Virginia announced this month that it had conducted a review of its admissions policies in the wake of the admissions scandal. The university wasn't involved in the scandal. But officials said they wanted to investigate. What they found was mixed.
William Happer’s move to science adviser to President Trump raises questions about how scholars should respond when facing outsiders’ attacks on their foundational knowledge.

The author of The Blood of Emmett Till says Americans on both the right and the left lack the political will to confront the country’s racial predicament.

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