Today's Clips (8/21/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
It was 400 years ago, “about the latter end of August,” that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula. There, Governor George Yeardley and his head of trade, Cape Merchant Abraham Piersey, bought the “20.
The latest start-up hoping to use online courses to try to make higher education more affordable is from an entrepreneur with a proven track record -- and has a well-regarded university willing to put its reputation behind the academic credits.
Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy — spouses, artists and frequent collaborators — make art with a message. Their work deals with global trade, climate change and privacy issues in the Internet age. This isn’t art you buy to hang over the living room sofa. This is art designed to make you think.
IN OTHER NEWS
This is the first year ever that women are going to make up the majority of the college-educated labor force, a milestone that is already altering benefits packages offered by companies and one that could influence family sizes in the future.

Four college students were wounded when a gunman opened fire into a crowd of 200 people outside a library near Clark Atlanta University and then escaped in the chaos, authorities said.

Is the University of North Carolina about to launch a program for conservative studies? Some UNC faculty members are concerned. The associate dean in charge of the program in question says it’s not “conservative.” At least some clues suggest otherwise.
The fall semester at UNC Charlotte has officially begun. Today is the first full day of classes. And for the first time for many students, it’s a return to campus after last semester's deadly shooting. Processing the trauma of the violence that left two students dead and four others injured is different for everyone. For one library staff member, part of his process is helping others come back to campus.
The quintessential college experience of getting pizza delivered to your dorm room is about to get a high-tech upgrade.
TRADES

The team behind higher-ed’s annual reminder on generational perspective begins a collaboration with Marist College, with suggestions of an eventual handoff.

Colleges look for ways to reverse an overall decline since 2010.

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