Today's Clips (8/13/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Campuses have containment strategies but ‘it’s an experiment,’ Gibbie Harris said. ‘We don’t know exactly what’s going to happen.’

The fall semester has barely started, and already there is plenty of news.

WeWork recently sold its preschool and coding bootcamp. But it is not out of the education business yet. In an effort to find tenants for its coworking ...

CORONAVIRUS

How college students can stay healthy during an unpredictable fall semester.

Fox and Disney, which owns ESPN and ABC, prepare to take another hit from a pandemic that has already affected them with shutdowns and delays.

If college athletes are asked to play a dozen games in the spring, the season will overlap with the NFL draft process and conflict with March Madness.

Australia’s experience shows life on campus will be very different to normal times as students face restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As the fall semester kicks off in person on many campuses, some professors are protesting, saying it's too dangerous.
About 20 parties, including one with nearly 400 people in attendance, were shut down at ECU during the school's opening weekend.

UNC-Chapel Hill has reported over 40 positive coronavirus cases among students and staff in the last three weeks.

A void in leadership and absence of crisis preparation have made a mess of the 2020 college football season. Can college basketball's stakeholders avoid a similar fate?

IN OTHER NEWS

A Los Angeles businessman whose tip led the government to unravel the massive Operation Varsity Blues college-admissions scam, Morrie Tobin, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for his role in a separate securities-fraud case.

Thomas Jefferson’s dream university confronts its past to get us talking about our future.

“We want to give college athletes the tools they need to protect their economic rights, pursue their education, prioritize their health and safety, and most critically, hold their schools and organizations like the NCAA accountable,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

A New Jersey college has backed off five of the six student code of conduct charges it had leveled against a student who used a picture of President Trump as his Zoom background and wrote an allegedly inflammatory political Facebook post -- but the school is still claiming the Facebook post constitutes "disruptive behavior."

Effective this fall, Boston University will allow approval of posthumous degrees for students who died before completing coursework.

A federal judge on Wednesday allowed the Education Department to move forward with new rules governing how schools and universities respond to complaints of sexual assault.

Duquesne University says there were no incidents of police or law enforcement "misconduct or negligence" on the night a student fell to his death from a campus apartment building in 2018.

TRADES

Without mitigation strategies, one model projected about 75 COVID-19 deaths at Georgia Tech -- highlighting the stakes as students move back to a campus putting several such strategies in place.

Hyperbolic accusations do more harm than good.

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