Today's Clips (7/28/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

McCladdie, a 2013 Citadel graduate and former football player for the Bulldogs, was recently hired as the new director of athletic development at Davidson College.

The shift to hybrid and online learning has left universities struggling to close budget gaps in any way they can.

Many regional public universities plan to open campuses this fall, against a backdrop of financial, political and enrollment pressure -- and a push by many students to return.

There’s also a new target start date for Davidson’s football season, if it can happen at all.

CORONAVIRUS

The athletes will prepare for next summer’s Olympic trials and the Tokyo Games, knowing they won’t compete at the college level until the 2021-22 season.

Those working to get college sports up and running have been hoping the return of professional sports would provide valuable information that could aid their efforts to play through a pandemic.

The school will also move to digital-only ticketing due to coronavirus

IN OTHER NEWS

With everyone’s liberty threatened by cancel culture, it’s time to restore freedom to academia.

A former University of California, Los Angeles men’s soccer coach pleaded guilty Monday to accepting $200,000 in bribes to help two students get into the school as recruits.

The University of Mississippi is facing renewed questions over its Ole Miss nickname, a term with a background in slavery as reverence for the slave master's wife.

A friend told 911 dispatchers that Mike Adams had been “under a lot of stress.”

Carol A. Moore has been president of three small liberal arts colleges before coming to Guilford. She starts work Saturday.

TRADES

Colleges are employing multipronged strategies to inform students about the pandemic. Will their efforts get students to take safety precautions seriously?

Colleges needn’t cut tuition to boost enrollment this fall -- they just need to offer students what they really want, argues Matt Wilkerson.

Colleges hoping to create socially distanced teaching spaces might look to Eckerd College. Granted, its campus is an advantage.

Five presidents of minority-serving institutions discuss meeting students’ needs, amplifying their voices, and fighting racism.

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