Today's Clips (7/22/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

More colleges are rolling back their optimistic proclamations of an in-person or hybrid fall. Plans are now more likely to include hefty virtual options, be mostly remote or even entirely online.

The show must go on! The folks at Davidson College came up with an immersive theater experience called Exit 30: A Pandemic Theater Detour.

CORONAVIRUS

Undergraduate students who live away from campus will save about $2,800 this semester.

Testing once a week, up to three days out from kickoff, creates a massive gap where infection can spread

Students originally supposed to live in the campuses east side dorm will be relocated.

Cornell University has suspended its swim test for the fall semester, which is ordinarily required for students to graduate, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 
IN OTHER NEWS

Makur Maker, a star basketball recruit, chose Howard University over offers from U.C.L.A. and Kentucky, and said he hoped other athletes would consider programs at historically Black institutions.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is leading a federal initiative to launch a university that would train a new generation of tech workers for the government

TRADES

Concerns are growing among students and faculty members about plans by some colleges to keep residence halls at full capacity this fall, which goes against the recommendations of public health agencies.

Colleges in states with large Black populations are the least accessible — and 4 other takeaways.

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