Today's Clips (5/22/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The University of California system is the latest, voting Thursday to suspend the test mandate through 2024.

CORONAVIRUS

If schools reopen, how many kids won’t?

With the coronavirus racking the job market, some colleges are working overtime to find paid positions for the class of 2020.

Some schools have already announced they are opening this fall.

Growing numbers of U.S. colleges are pledging to reopen this fall, with dramatic changes to campus life to keep the coronavirus at bay. Big lectures will be a thing of the past. Dorms will will be nowhere near capacity. Students will face mandatory virus testing. And at some smaller schools, students may be barred from leaving campus.

The University of California will drop the SAT and ACT tests as admission requirements through 2024 and eliminate them for California residents after that, a landmark decision by the prestigious university system.

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted in-person education and student life, leaving U.S. colleges and universities scrambling to make plans for the fall semester and beyond. 

Final exams will take place before Thanksgiving and students won’t return to campus until January.

Thursday's press release said the cuts, along with additional restrictions within the athletic department, should save $4.9 million long term

IN OTHER NEWS

The actress Lori Loughlin has agreed to plead guilty and to serve two months in prison. Her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, a fashion designer, is expected to serve five months.

The remarkable story of a young man who went from dropping out of school so he could play video games all night long to the Ivy League.

TRADES

Universities are not facing the biological and moral reality of this pandemic nor recognizing the limits of medical technology and political institutions to address the challenges, argue Irina Mikhalevich and Russell Powell.

As colleges work to balance budgets amid growing economic uncertainty, the wealthiest are faced with a recurring question: Should they tap more heavily into their endowments or leave them alone?

Diagnostic testing is part of every college's plan for reopening campus. But whether college administrations can get their hands on enough tests, or afford them, is still being worked out.

To combat inequity, colleges should suspend their use of standardized tests and high-profile college rankings, argues H. Holden Thorp.

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