Today's Clips (5/21/20)
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DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Writing as a father, a professor and someone who is immunocompromised, Issac Bailey says adjusting the school calendar to start in late summer and end before the expected next wave of pandemic in the fall and winter is the best path forward through an understandable, unavoidable thicket of uncertainty and anxiety.

Tense relations with the US and the question of whether armed confrontation can be avoided will loom large when China’s political elites meet.

CORONAVIRUS

When it comes to college admissions, standardized tests penalize ambitious low-income students.

The shuttering of the American education system has cut off young people from school staff members who helped them navigate the pressures of adolescence and cope with trauma.

The University of California's governing Board of Regents is scheduled to vote Thursday on a plan to ignore SAT and ACT scores from in-state applicants.

Division I Council votes to allow athletes back on campus as soon as June 1, depending on state restrictions.

A mandate to disclose more transparently what schools are already reporting to the government could change the way college admissions work.

Students around the country have been unable to submit their AP exams due to an unexpected technical issue. The College Board’s online portal has been unable to process HEIC files, which are Apple’s default photo format.

IN OTHER NEWS

Nancy Pelosi sent the president a bipartisan resolution to reverse his education secretary’s tightening of student debt forgiveness rules. He must decide whether to sign it during an economic crisis.

Historically black colleges and universities have once again been hit disproportionately hard with NCAA-imposed penalties based on Academic Progress Rates.

TRADES

The pandemic reveals ineptitude at the top. Change is needed.

Colleges are considering additions to their conduct codes to enforce social distancing measures next fall, but their reach only goes so far off-campus.

Colleges and universities are increasingly suspending or trimming employee retirement plan contributions to battle budget deficits.

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