Today's Clips (7/21/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Protests for racial justice this spring and summer have prompted a related movement: Black people and other people of color have been sharing their stories

Ellie called into the morning show for a 10-minute live interview.

Higher ed experts predict the trickle of schools staying online will become a flood as the pandemic persists.

CORONAVIRUS

Colby College, in Maine, plans to test everyone regularly throughout the semester. Other colleges say they can’t afford to test everyone.

The pandemic has already begun shifting the pathways students of color take toward a college degree.

Experts fear activity at bars could lead to spread of coronavirus.

Two front-page news stories in 2020 could jointly speed the demise of standardized testing, long the gold standard for college admissions in the U.S. The coronavirus pandemic, by forcing the cancellation of in-person test-taking, prompted elite universities including Harvard, Yale and the University of California system to join, at least temporarily, the list of schools that aren’t requiring the ACT and SAT entrance exams. In the meantime, protests over historically unfair and unequal treatment

As the pandemic surges in the United States, academics worry about safety

IN OTHER NEWS

We're not erasing history. We are reading it more closely.

TRADES

Some colleges invite a fraction of their students to live on campus this fall. But is that approach truly safer? And who gets to be on campus?

Colleges spent millions of dollars facilitating the pivot from face-to-face to remote instruction last spring. Administrators who oversee online learning don’t want that investment to go to waste.

News that the University of California at Berkeley, Miami Dade College, and others will start the semester remotely signals a retreat from the optimism of the late spring.

As on-campus study and life fall victim to Covid-19, experts say such students will suffer as a result.

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