Today's Clips (7/9/24)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Utah is the most affordable state in 2024. Learn about the factors that make it budget-friendly and see where your state stands.

Most Americans would use their winnings on practical financial goals, such as paying down debt.

On the next Charlotte Talks, doing the right thing can often be costly for those calling out a wrong others would like concealed. We hear from a whistleblower about that cost and what makes it worth it.

On any given Friday, the enthusiasm builds as the young team members race across the manicured fields to play their favorite sport at Fellsmere Elementary School. 
IN OTHER NEWS

The gift, made by Michael R. Bloomberg’s philanthropic organization, will also cover living expenses for some Johns Hopkins University students.

Nemat Shafik, the university president, called the sentiments in the text messages “unacceptable and deeply upsetting.”

Sullivan & Cromwell is requiring job applicants to explain their participation in protests. Critics see the policy as a way to silence speech about the war.

In the year since the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions, colleges have walked away from scholarships with racial criteria.

Restoring a culture of tolerance at U.S. universities will require confronting painful realities.

They’re hitting the books almost as much as their grandparents did — and getting other work done, too.

TRADES

The embattled Federal Student Aid office enlisted executives from the nonprofit to help launch next year’s aid form. Is it a necessary shake-up or an ethical blunder? The dust has yet to settle from this year’s disastrous rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The U.S. Education Department is still fixing glitches, processing aid forms and working to boost completion rates that lag 11 percent behind last year’s.

“Working too hard and too long” — a norm for the modern administrator — is contributing to the high turnover rate.

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