Today's Clips (4/16/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Colleges and universities around the country sent students home last month to minimize their exposure to the coronavirus that has swept the globe. But students who couldn’t leave are now living on shadow versions of their campuses.

With college sports on hold, Davidson College's lead sports physician saw his work load slow to a halt. That’s when a close colleague offered him a way to help in the battle against COVID-19.

With high school disrupted, a growing number of schools are waiving standardized testing requirements for 2021 applicants.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

CORONAVIRUS

The coronavirus is forcing the SAT and ACT to develop digital versions of the standardized tests in case schools remain closed. Critics fear that could deepen inequities.

Five college conferences have asked for a relaxing of requirements because of financial problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Colleges and universities have offered refunds on housing costs, but they're resisting calls from students to reduce tuition rates.

The commissioners of the nation's major college football conferences held a 30-minute conference call Wednesday with Vice President Mike Pence and stressed that college sports cannot return from the coronavirus shutdown until campuses have reopened.

The coronavirus epidemic has emptied college towns such as Bloomington, home to Indiana University. The semester was cut short, and the fall semester is in jeopardy.

President Eisgruber writes to members of the senior class and their families about Commencement planning in light of COVID-19. A virtual commencement ceremony will be held on May 31, 2020 followed by an in-person ceremony in May 2021.

Some schools are just letting seniors graduate without PE and other mandates, but others are attempting distance learning.

Crises spur intense competition among colleges. There’s a better way.

Major higher education groups have come together to urge colleges to be flexible and transparent when accepting credits in light of the public health pandemic.

New computational analysis finds that underrepresented scholars outperform majority peers in terms of novel research, but they don't reap the same rewards.

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