Today's Clips (9/11/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
North Carolina has long flirted with being a purple state. It went for Barack Obama by a sliver in 2008, but went red in the next two presidential races. The governor is a Democrat; both senators are Republicans.

Polls have closed and election votes have been counted for the 2019 NC3 election for Congress, and Republican Greg Murphy beat Democrat Allen Thomas. President Trump had visited the 3rd district to campaign.

IN OTHER NEWS

In a speech to black educators, Mr. Trump glossed over a summer of racial taunts aimed at Democratic lawmakers of color.

Universities and colleges are sponsoring retirement communities on their grounds, hoping that young and old can enrich each other’s lives while filling the school’s coffers.

Cure for the empty nest or parental monitoring gone awry?

What’s causing it? Where did it come from? Students discuss.

A new book explains the depth of the problem and solutions that are working.

They wrote racist graffiti on the monument to enslaved and free African Americans who built UNC Chapel Hill’s campus. They were charged with defacing the memorial near where Confederate statue Silent Sam stood.

The task of colleges and universities is neither to produce an unregulated free market of ideas nor to champion the civility of the drawing room, says Wesleyan University president Michael S. Roth. He argues that colleges have to do more to increase intellectual diversity in higher education.

College is not just job prep, and the job market changes constantly.

TRADES

Department of Justice lifts restriction on capital financing for faith-based historically black colleges -- part of White House effort to show commitment to HBCUs. But it's not clear how many colleges have been denied funding.

Why scholars must reclaim the right to say what’s good — and what’s not.

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