Today's Clips (7/15/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
Marsicano appears around the 31:05 mark to discuss the administration's reversal on the last week's ICE directive.

Transcript (and audio) here.

Colleges sent an important signal in March about the seriousness of Covid-19. The message about this fall is much different.

The Trump administration has rescinded a policy barring international students from remaining in the U.S. if they enrolled solely in online courses this fall.

Tim talks with three experts on southern politics and history about how the South could impact the 2020 elections.

CORONAVIRUS

The Trump administration said it would no longer require foreign students to attend in-person classes during the coronavirus pandemic in order to remain in the country.

The international scholars the administration was threatening to send home are vital to American innovation and competitiveness.

Colleges, seeking to bring students back to campus this fall during the coronavirus pandemic, are laying out reopening plans that rely heavily on their health departments arranging frequent testing of students, faculty and staff.

The pressures of the pandemic have forced families to abandon the hypervigilant approach popular since the 1990s. That could help kids become more independent, but also comes with risks.

“The reality is that the anticipated in-person experiences planned for this fall can’t and won’t meet the expectations of our students and their families.”

Students who face bigger hurdles to college graduation than their peers in good times have it even worse in the COVID-19 pandemic. But there's help.

As Tulane University prepares to bring students back to campus in the fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, Dean of Students Erica Woodley has a message: party or be in large gatherings, and you're in trouble.

The 2020 college football season is already certain to be played amid unprecedented circumstances. Would shifting the entire season to the spring be a bridge too far for CFB stakeholders?

IN OTHER NEWS

The cancel culture targets a respected classics professor.

Other immigration policies still in place may bring new international student enrollment down to levels not seen since World War II.

A Confederate monument that’s long been a divisive symbol at the University of Mississippi was removed Tuesday from a prominent spot on the Oxford campus, just two weeks after Mississippi surrendered the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem.

Where did the Tar Heels nickname come from and what does it mean? It’s complicated.

In 2011, for the first time, the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville obtained the elite classification as a Research I (RI) university. RI is a top-tier and sought-after status in higher education. It means the UA engages in the highest research activity levels based on its number of doctorates awarded and research expenditures. The list is reviewed and updated every three years by Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, based at Indiana University in Bloomington.

TRADES

Colleges are implementing social contracts or making addenda to code of conduct policies requiring students to abide by social distancing guidelines this fall. Some institutions have said they will remove students from campus for noncompliance.

Testing is essential for colleges to reopen safely.

This won’t be a regular semester, and colleges shouldn’t charge a regular price.

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