Today's Clips (12/20/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Michael Dorcas, 56, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars after pleading guilty to enticement of a minor. While pretending to be a teenage boy, prosecutors said he convinced young girls to undress on webcams.

A former North Carolina professor was sentenced Thursday after he pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor, according to Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

IN OTHER NEWS

It’s all about the states. A big question is how a plan could work in all of them.

The agreement to fund the government through September and stave off a shutdown delivers $72.8 billion in discretionary funding for the Education Department, a $1.3 billion increase over 2019.

Required ‘diversity and inclusion’ statements amount to a political litmus test for hiring.

A study of West Point cadets shows that perseverance is just as important to success as brains or brawn

This time of year, colleges are emailing important admissions and financial aid information. Small problem: Teenagers. Don’t. Check. Email.

TRADES

Higher education institutions and their leaders -- who claim to help graduates develop critical thinking -- are doing too little to combat the growing lack of reason roiling our society, Ryan Craig writes.

In the 2010s, horrors of higher ed came slowly into focus.

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