Today's Clips (8/28/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The program’s name — PACE — is an acronym for progress, advocate, cooperate and educate.

Davidson College's football team announced Thursday the creation of PACE, which is an organization focused on stopping systemic racism.

The University of Notre Dame changed its "battle plan" after a headline-grabbing rise in COVID-19 cases.

Fifty positive COVID-19 cases, or 100? Meeting 80 percent of quarantine capacity, or having more than 10 sick employees? Some colleges are publishing "triggers" that would lead them to consider closing; others refuse to boil decision making down to a few numbers.

The pandemic will hasten a transformation of higher education business models, according to a new Moody's Investors Service report.

CORONAVIRUS

Yale students in Barbados. Michigan students in Brooklyn. Berkeley students in Las Vegas? Off-campus housing is way off-campus now.

Remote learning, canceled clubs and limited access to on-campus amenities are generating debate about the cost and value of higher education

Officials say sewage surveillance helped them detect a pair of coronavirus cases after students moved back onto campus.

Both the stress and the stakes are high for all the small business owners near Michigan’s campus on and around South University Avenue, which winds through the city of about 120,000 residents -- about one-third of them students.

More than 550 people have tested positive for the coronavirus at colleges and universities in Virginia

The university started fall semester classes on Monday.

There are 12 clusters and hundreds of COVID-19 cases reported on UNC’s campus, in dorms and UNC-affiliated off-campus properties, including Greek houses.

Classes at NC State will be canceled Monday and Tuesday as the school transitions to an all-virtual semester.

Local colleges are finalizing preparations for COVID testing, but most won’t disclose the positive test rate that would trigger a campus shutdown.

I lasted two weeks in the dorms.

IN OTHER NEWS

Each year, we ask high school seniors to send us college application essays that touch on money, work or social class. Here are four from this year’s incoming college freshmen.

The firing of Jerry Falwell Jr. should be the beginning of much deeper reforms.

TRADES

Nearly 7 percent of students have tested positive at Georgia College, and many more are in quarantine, but the state’s regents insisted on in-person classes.

They spent months training professors, streamlining communications with students, and fostering a sense of community online. The problem? They’re in the minority.

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