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Once evicted, families face an uphill battle securing a new place to live, said Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest and co-creator of the COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard. “It is a trauma that families and individuals are experiencing that takes an extremely long amount of time to recover from,” Benfer said. “One of the reasons for this is that once an eviction is filed, that is on the tenant’s permanent record. And so future property owners might screen to look for that. And they might be kept out of housing opportunities that would be of equal or positive experience for them.”
August 28, 2020
The Washington Post
What is China up to in Africa? Read this book
In her smart new book, “Shaping the Future of Power: Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations,” Wake Forest political scientist Lina Benabdallah shows that common analyses of China’s engagement in Africa are incomplete. Traditional international relations analysis focuses on exactly what most scholars of China-Africa have already identified: material concerns such as investments, markets and infrastructure. But as Benabdallah brilliantly explains, the Chinese conception of building alliances depends on far more than money. She shows that at least as important to Chinese officials is building networks and individual relationships between Africans and Chinese people.
August 28, 2020
Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest one of four NC schools among top 50 in US in annual Niche ranking
Triad schools fared well in Niche’s annual rankings of the best U.S. colleges, with Wake Forest leading the way. Wake Forest received an overall grade of A+, with top scores in academics, professors, value, student life and athletics. The rankings are based on a combination of U.S. Department of Education data and reviews from current students, alumni and parents. Niche assigned grades and rankings for schools after analyzing a dozen factors that encompass a school’s academics, campus, dorm life, professors and value for the financial investment.
August 28, 2020
88.5 WFDD
WFU students support Local families with virtual tutoring
Director Camry Wilborn said survey responses from parents have been overwhelmingly positive: a helpful resource, knowledgeable tutors and tremendous support provided by Wake students during a very difficult time. “Being able to build one-on-one relationships with actual community members and being the drivers of that relationship is really valuable, and not something that we always get to do at the university,” said Wilborn. “So, being able to share the resources on our campus with the community makes me really happy and satisfied.”
August 26, 2020
CNBC
Can you be evicted during the pandemic? It depends on your ZIP code
“Piecemeal policies within a state set up renters to have very different outcomes during the pandemic by virtue of their ZIP code,” said Emily Benfer, a visiting law professor at Wake Forest. “The patchwork approach to eviction moratoriums has resulted in misinformation and confusion about tenant rights and obligations,.”
August 25, 2020
Daily Nous
$4.4 million grant for philosophical exploration of honesty
Christian B. Miller, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest, and a team of researchers, have been awarded a $4.4 million grant for his “Honesty Project.” The Honesty Project brings philosophy together with psychology, as well as business, economics and political science. The grant, awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, is the largest grant ever awarded to the humanities at Wake Forest.
August 24, 2020
The Trace
Gun sales have hit record highs. Will it change how Americans vote
“People within the gun culture are very excited about these new gun owners and are hoping to bring these people into the fold politically,” said David Yamane, a sociologist at Wake Forest, “but I think that’s going to be more easily said than done.” Yamane cautioned that acquiring a gun does not guarantee a shift in attitude toward firearms regulation and that Americans are too politically entrenched for the high sales alone to swing the debate or bring about a further loosening of laws.
August 22, 2020
News & Record
Wake Forest students return to campus and hope they can stay
Student move-in went smoothly this week, said Matthew Clifford, the university’s dean of residence life and housing. About 1,400 new first-year students had checked in by Thursday. Another 2,350 upperclass students who are living in campus housing are scheduled to move in by Monday. For both new and returning students, move-in was an entirely redesigned experience…Miles Middleton, the Student Government Association president, said he feels for the freshmen. It’ll be important for returning students to follow the rules, be good role models for freshmen and make the new students feel comfortable, the senior said. Wake Forest, he said, is a small and connected place with a strong community and a good plan for dealing with COVID-19. That’ll help.
August 21, 2020
88.1 Blue Ridge Public Radio
Why Black defendants don’t get judged by a jury of their peers
Non-white jury pool members get excluded from juries twice as often as their white counterparts in North Carolina, according to research by Wake Forest law professors. This discrimination persists despite a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating that striking jurors on the basis of race is unconstitutional. The racial inequity of jury selection was the recent topic for a meeting of Gov. Roy Cooper’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice.
August 20, 2020
CNBC
Evictions are expected to skyrocket as pandemic protections come to an end
“HUD’s new moratorium only applies to a slight fraction of the units covered under the CARES Act and does nothing to protect the overwhelming majority of renters in the United States from eviction and its devastating consequences,” said Emily Benfer, an eviction expert and visiting professor of law at Wake Forest.
August 20, 2020
Newsweek
Federal eviction moratorium lapse will lead to COVID surge, poverty and future housing shortages
Black and Latinx Americans have been disproportionately affected by every aspect of the public health crisis, from health care to mortality to unemployment, and eviction is no different. “Communities of color entered the pandemic at a major deficit. This is in part due to our country’s long-standing sordid history of racial discriminatory housing laws and policies that locked people of color out of wealth accumulation and created this cavernous gap,” Emily Benfer, a law professor at Wake Forest, said. Studies have shown that Black households are twice as likely to be evicted than white households.
August 20, 2020
Patch
13 NC colleges make Princeton Review’s 2021 ‘Best’ List
Wake Forest made The Princeton Review’s annual list of the country’s best colleges. The 2021 Best Colleges were selected based on “our high opinion of their academics,” the Princeton Review said in announcing its newest list. The organization said it monitors colleges “continuously and annually” to collect data on more than 2,000 schools.
August 20, 2020