Today's Clips (3/5/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Super Tuesday narrowed the Democratic presidential field to a race between two men: former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

CORONAVIRUS

The worker at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire was confirmed with the disease only after attending the mixer. Now a second man has tested positive.

Lake Washington Institute of Technology reopened Wednesday after cleaning the campus near Seattle following potential exposure of students and faculty to coronavirus at a nursing home. Colleges across the country are planning for possible impacts from the outbreak.

Six Bowdoin College students studying in Italy, where there have been more than 3,000 confirmed cases of the virus, have returned home after increasing health threats, according to college officials. None of them will be returning to Bowdoin this semester. 

Kena University in Union, N.J., has suspended travel for its athletes amid the coronavirus outbreak out of an “abundance of caution," a spokesperson said Wednesday.

Maps show the extent of the coronavirus outbreak and the number of cases and deaths by state.

For American colleges at the height of the admissions season, the spreading illness is forcing them to work on parallel tracks. On one, it’s business as usual. On the other, they are planning for a myriad of contingencies.

IN OTHER NEWS

Ruthless labor exploitation? Generational betrayal? Understanding the job crisis in academia requires a look at recent history.

I had made it from Mexico into an elite American university, but it didn’t change my place in American society.

Francesca Cornelli joined Northwestern’s business school last summer to teach future managers how to deal with disruption, and hopes to lead by example.

Mitch Daniels has kept Purdue’s tuition under $10,000 for seven straight years. How has he done it?

Brigham Young University in Utah reiterated Wednesday that “same-sex romantic behavior” is not allowed on campus — dashing the hopes of LGTBTQ students who thought they could be more open after the college previously revised its code of conduct.

How does this impact Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli’s case?

Harvard expands financial aid to eliminate summer contribution.

TRADES

Brown University president Christina Paxson announced yesterday that the university has sold 90 percent of its investments in fossil fuels and is making plans to liquidate the remaining investments, which make up less than 1 percent of Brown's portfolio. Brown joins a growing list of colleges looking to part ways with the fossil fuel industry amid increasing community pressure

An internal report obtained by The Chronicle found that a law-school administrator at Texas Southern University may have accepted bribes in exchange for students’ admission.

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