Today's Clips (7/30/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
When the Big 10 and Pac-12 scrapped non-conference football games over Covid-19 concerns, the move had a ripple effect on smaller schools missing out on revenue.Teams outside of the major conferences can help build their budgets from the guaranteed payments they get for agreeing to play the powerhouses. 

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.

CORONAVIRUS

A bittersweet family tradition has become an exercise in risk assessment, logistics and trying to understand ever-changing rules.

Several U.S. business schools have closed their struggling full-time M.B.A. programs in recent months, and the coronavirus outbreak may endanger more.

Colleges have plans for classrooms and school buildings, but if students flock to frat parties and tailgates on Saturdays, then what?

The organizers at ACT have released lengthy guidelines for how they will keep students safe from contracting or spreading the coronavirus. But there’s a problem: Centers may not be following them.

Ivy League university presidents are doing some belt tightening of their own.

Work-study jobs may be remote, in-person or rescinded entirely this fall depending on colleges' policies.

A Silicon Valley startup could offer a template for universities shifting their courses online due to coronavirus

A dozen students at Bradley University in Peoria tested positive for COVID-19, apparently after attending an off-campus social gathering, prompting renewed questions about in-person learning.

A petition circulating among students, faculty and staff at the Lewiston college says its reopening plan is too dangerous.

IN OTHER NEWS

The founder of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm was sentenced Wednesday to six months behind bars for paying about $450,000 in bribes to boost his two daughters' entrance exam scores and get one of them into Georgetown University as a bogus tennis recruit.

The names of other buildings could be changed under a new campus policy.

TRADES

As some professors and other campus workers raise concerns about their safety as campuses reopen, Congress is divided over increasing federal workplace safety regulations during the pandemic.

Political science professor at Converse College says he's facing termination for refusing to complete two diversity and antibias training modules.

Crisis is changing the debate about standardized exams, but their peculiar power endures.

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