Today's Clips (7/29/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Now The Chronicle is partnering with Davidson College’s College Crisis Initiative (C2i), which has collected reopening plans for nearly 3,000 institutions.

The public is paying respects to long-time Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, as his body lies in state at the U. S. Capitol Rotunda for

Dr. Jerry Saunders, medical director at CW Williams Clinic, talks about his mission to help under-served communities to help protect them from coronavirus.

CORONAVIRUS

A Times survey of hundreds of schools represents the most comprehensive look at the toll the virus has already taken on the country’s colleges and universities.

With the fall term about to start amid pandemic, campus plans are in disarray at a host of American colleges. Harvard is mostly limited to freshmen; U.C. Berkeley is starting online-only.

As budgets tighten, students debate cutting athletics programs.

As schools continue to revise plans, students worry about what lies ahead.

Universities have long talked a good game, but haven’t backed it up.

After planning ways to reopen this fall semester, colleges are changing their minds, and students are frustrated.

Two NCAA programs at Winthrop and East Carolina that were cut because of the financial impact of COVID-19 are working to help each other survive.

Partial reopenings are an invitation to Covid-19 outbreaks while shutdowns will squeeze tuition and local spending.

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing Emory University to cut costs, and that means pay cuts for employees making $75,000 or more a year. 

Virtual classes aren't necessarily cheaper.

IN OTHER NEWS

For some, defending free speech has become a tool to bully others into silence.

The $40 million donation well help retain faculty and graduate students, and complete infrastructure projects.

As a college with an emphasis on public policy, it is important to keep the name to honor Madison’s influence on the founding, Jones writes.

Wake Forest University’s motto is Pro Humanitate, meaning, “For Humanity.” However, the members of a new project started by the university, titled the Wake Forest University Slavery, Race and Memory Project, came to find that wasn’t always truly the case.

TRADES

As colleges head toward the remote fall they dreaded, they must deliver a more compelling learning experience than last spring's. Most think it will be better, but it may not give students what they crave.

In what critics say is defiance of Supreme Court ruling, Trump administration says it will reject new DACA applications and shorten the renewal period to one year.

Some gap-year programs report filling their cohorts a month early and opening more slots to meet the demand. They predict numbers will grow as colleges solidify their plans for the fall.

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