Today's Clips (7/7/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Having gone through a tenure battle at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill based, in part, on conflicting views about how history of racism should be taught in our schools, it is refreshing to encounter “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” by Clint Smith.

CORONAVIRUS

I wasn’t prepared for large-scale disaster, but I set myself up for success anyway

IN OTHER NEWS

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is using major philanthropic donors to build her future as a tenured professor at Howard University, just as other major donors sought to stymie the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black investigative reporter at the University of North Carolina

Since the 1950s, conservatives have decried liberal professors and worked to pull campuses to the right.

Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC tenure offer, will launch new Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard University

Phil Knight and his wife Penny are giving a second $500 million gift to the University of Oregon to bolster a science research campus named for them.

UNC announced a change of leadership for the campus police department Tuesday afternoon but did not offer any details about why Chief David Perry submitted his resignation.

TRADES

Survey finds students support their institutions and mostly plan to re-enroll -- but increasingly doubt whether education is worth the price.

Handing over edX to a private company is a gross betrayal.

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