Today's Clips (7/6/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
The "Unsolved Mysteries" theme song has spooked viewers for decades. Here's the story behind it. 

College students are preparing to return to campuses in the fall amid the coronavirus pandemic. What awaits them isn’t clear.

Two recent college graduates of Davidson College say they are concerned about the future of a Georgia island they consider to be sacred land.

When COVID-19 sent twins Brackett and Sarah Hardy and their friend Jack Douglass back home to Lake Rabun earlier this year, the trio of college students developed a vision to spread cheer to those on the lake by launching an ice cream boat.

CORONAVIRUS

Most universities plan to bring students back to campus. But many of their teachers are concerned about joining them.

In recent weeks, universities across the country have conducted an unplanned experiment on whether students can return to campus this fall, using football players and other athletes reporting for voluntary workouts as guinea pigs.

Cognitive dissonance in the ivory tower.

The promise of college tennis lured Abhimanyu Vannemreddy from his home in India to the United States, where he settled in at Winthrop University in South Carolina.

The number of high school seniors applying for U.S. federal college aid plunged in the weeks following the sudden closure of school buildings this spring — a time when students were cut off from...

Buying a property for your college student to live in while they're in school is suddenly a riskier investment because of the pandemic. And costs aside, there are benefits to being on campus.

IN OTHER NEWS

Reconciliation and progress come from addressing our past honestly.

It's true that my famous ancestor John Brown defended the slave trade. But many others fought for equality and abolition.

TRADES

What would it take to really address the role that colleges play in perpetuating racial inequality?

In wake of Supreme Court ruling blocking Trump from ending DACA, the future of the program protecting young undocumented immigrants remains uncertain.

California required colleges to report on their practices for admitting the children of alumni and donors. Here's what it found out.

Jose V. Sartarelli, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, said Thursday that the university had paid Mike Adams $504,000 to retire Aug. 1. The decision followed a tweet by Adams that offended many. Adams has been involved in a number of prior controversies. Sartarelli, in a note to the campus, said he had three choices. "1) Have him continue as a

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