Today's Clips (3/30/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The news that would upend Davidson came at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 12.

In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis in America, Curry is unquestionably qualified and ready to be an important messenger for this moment.

CORONAVIRUS

College students across the country are pushing to abolish grades, saying the only letters that matter now are C-O-V-I-D.

The decision by the school’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., to partly reopen his evangelical university enraged residents of Lynchburg, Va. Then students started getting sick.

When Covid-19 struck, Stanford closed its classrooms. The novelist Daniel Mason turned his students’ last assignment into an exercise for staying well.

Australian universities are beginning to retrench in expectation of a shortfall of student applicants from China because of travel bans imposed to fight the coronavirus, in a harbinger of challenges  universities in Western countries may face in the fall.

College seniors were preparing to graduate into the hottest job market in decades. Now, graduation ceremonies are canceled and many of the soon-to-be degree holders are wondering whether they should even bother looking for jobs.

Some of the nation’s most selective colleges became slightly less selective this year, as Harvard University, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania posted increased acceptance rates for the first-year class that will begin in the fall.

‘It’s not perfect, but we do the best we can,’ a University of Virginia professor told students.

It was during Act 1 of the final dress rehearsal for Puccini’s “La Rondine” at the Peabody Conservatory that the school president sent out an email canceling all nonessential gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Nearly 50,000 tuned in and saw what makes Stephen Curry such a respected leader during an informative talk with Dr. Anthony Fauci about COVID-19.

The coronavirus has driven nearly all college courses online and onto Zoom across the country. Students are struggling and laughing in the transition.

Catawba College offering courses to high school students

An unprecedented shutdown of academic research underway on many campuses has implications for young investigators still building careers in their fields.

The Covid-19 pandemic has closed campuses across the nation, upending the familiar signposts of residential college life.

IN OTHER NEWS

Under its athletic director, Bobby Valentine, the small Connecticut university is expanding its facilities in the hopes of becoming a college hockey power.

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