Today's Clips (4/17/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

High schoolers must navigate online classes, build resumes without access to standardized testing or extracurriculars and must decide where they'd like to attend without visiting campuses. And many experts believe these seismic shifts will have long-lasting impacts.

We have a unique opportunity to come together, to bridge humanity; and the future of our world depends on what you do next.

CORONAVIRUS

Jerry Falwell Jr. has tried to have journalists arrested as he maintains he has been unfairly maligned. But the coronavirus keeps spreading around Liberty University.

Sports leagues face large, but not insurmountable, obstacles to even getting games back on television. Fans in the stands? Wait till next year.

A new spike in coronavirus cases is the darkest shadow hanging over the future of sports, concerts and every kind of mass gathering that was commonplace before.

The College Board said if public schools are still closed in the fall, it will offer a digital at-home SAT for the first time. Here are some of the concerns.

Grim financial scenarios involving no football season put a fundamentally unfair economy in stark relief.

Will he or won't he?

We spoke to students about to graduate into the workforce and posed their questions and anxieties to career counselors. Some advice: Be flexible, make it personal, network and look for bright spots.

“The danger is that many, many people will die if we just let nature take its course. That's the problem. We don't want people to die.”

Out-of-state students pay nearly $20,000 a semester to attend the University of Colorado Boulder. Now that all university activities have gone to a remote model, some families believe they should be exempt from some, if not all, of those fees and tuition.

The last recession brought overaggressive recruitment of students by bad actors among for-profit colleges, and some worry about a repeat in this economic downturn.

In these trying times, the last thing that students need to see is their professional, highly educated professor falling apart at the seams, argues Kristie Kiser.

With so many variables in play, academic leaders are struggling to determine when to reopen their campuses and whether to move fall courses online.

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