Today's Clips (9/10/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

President Donald Trump promotes Republican candidate Dan Bishop in a special election in North Carolina that could preview his own re-election bid in 2020.

President Donald Trump and his team put on a fill-court press for Republican Dan Bishop a day ahead of a crucial special election between Bishop and Democrat Dan McCready.

If you’re looking for a roadmap for what we can expect from the next presidential election, Davidson College’s Vann Professor of Ethics in Society Bill Kristol can help. He shares his thoughts on 2020 and the nature of politics with Mike Collins. 

IN OTHER NEWS

Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all.

A bill passed by the State Assembly would allow college athletes to make endorsement deals. It is expected to reach the desk of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Schools must learn that when you come from poverty, you need more than financial aid to succeed.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on a freelance editor’s quandary, a colleague’s potential conflict of interest and a school’s environmental health issue.

Employers used to be able to count on the skills a liberal-arts education cultivated.

Jury selection is set to begin in the first trial of a former college baseball player accused of sexually assaulting six women.

A Florida boy who was bullied over his homemade University of Tennessee shirt now has fans of his own.

A fight over sentencing rules in the college admissions scandal case could affect prison terms for parents.

North Carolina alumnus Walter Hussman Jr. and his family gave $25 million to UNC Chapel Hill’s award-winning journalism school, the largest gift in its history. The school will be named for the Hussman family.

More than two dozen current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world. At Liberty University, all anyone can talk about is Jerry Falwell Jr. Just not in public.

The idea that the college years should be primarily about potential is not idealistic or naive; it is prescient.

At American universities, personal grievances are what everyone's talking about.

TRADES

Think tank survey finds majorities of Republicans view higher ed as valuable, but see individual students as benefiting from degrees.

Sociologists and more than a dozen other professional groups take a stand against using student evaluations of teaching as a primary measure of teaching effectiveness.

Six Title IX coordinators have worked at the college in the past three academic years. One lasted only a month.

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