Today's Clips (7/13/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Although most North Carolina universities — including Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State — still plan to bring students back to campus for some in-person classes starting next month, international students are fearful of what could happen if classes move entirely online.

Fifty years after the fact, Mike McCoy vividly remembers the 1970 Coaches All-America Game.

Everyone’s doing something a little bit different.

CORONAVIRUS

Many first-generation, low-income Harvard students feel that the elite institution has failed them.

The world needs you. Here’s your chance.

For colleges in the middle of the pack, the financial calculus during the pandemic looks very different, with in-person classes a way to survive.

Bit by bit, workouts, programs or seasons are canceled by conferences, throwing into question if it is worth having a season at all in a pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is turning college towns into ghost towns, and businesses are struggling

Schools are considering everything from contact-tracing apps to facial recognition.

Frat houses are facing a ‘massive change,’ with some recommending wearing masks indoors.

College financial aid officers are contending with more pleas for help from families facing unemployment in the current public health and economic crisis.

In his push to get schools and colleges to reopen this fall, President Donald Trump is again taking aim at their finances, this time threatening their tax-exempt status.

Professors are concerned about returning to campus to teach in person amid the coronavirus pandemic.

They should be taking the lead in reimagining what higher learning can look like during the pandemic.

IN OTHER NEWS

Prosecutors said Todd and Diane Blake paid $250,000 to fraudulently gain their daughter’s admission to the University of Southern California as a volleyball recruit.

TRADES

Students, parents and teachers are up in arms over the way the International Baccalaureate was scored this year. College spaces are at risk.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t made public a document with information that could aid colleges and universities as they devise plans for reopening in the fall, The New York Times reported Friday. The 69-page document, obtained by the Times and marked “For Internal Use Only,” was intended for federal public health response teams as they are deployed to

“HyFlex” courses promise flexibility, but faculty members say that’s also what makes them so challenging to teach.

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