Today's Clips (8/31/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS
An excerpt from Jeff Selingo's upcoming book: In the final ‘shaping’ of an incoming class, academic standards give way to other, more ambiguous factors. PDF here

Seventy-two percent of Fortune 500 companies offer some sort of paid parental leave, but fathers are generally considered secondary to mothers.

University president Lee C. Bollinger wrote in a letter addressed to students and faculty members that the dorm, Bard Hall, would be renamed this fall with one that "represents our University's

The university went big on its reopening gamble. Can it beat Covid-19?

There is good reason why Indian students and their parents hanker for a higher education ‘abroad’, especially in institutions carrying the Ivy League and Oxbridge goldmark. Places such as Stanford or Harvard in the US,...

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.

Davidson College registers as the top-ranked school locally, and it ranks at No. 3 in North Carolina. The private liberal arts school in Davidson — about 20 miles north of Charlotte — lands high in the national ranking as well, placing at No. 47. It ranks as the third-best Christian college in America.

Campus officials say they believe the infections arose from ‘social settings.’

Officials have confirmed a cluster of COVID-19 connected to the baseball team at Davidson College Saturday.

Davidson College says that a cluster of five baseball players has tested positive for COVID-19. In an email sent to the college community Friday evening, Davidson said that the five students are isolating “and while they are currently asymptomatic, their health is being monitored.” The email said that the transmission among the five students was…

CORONAVIRUS

Universities are pioneering technology that could help society combat the pandemic.

Dorm life got kinda serious.

Why are some schools pressuring student-athletes to play a game that could expose them to the coronavirus?

Colleges nationwide continue to struggle with increasing coronavirus cases, the virus spreading seemingly unabated on some campuses in Georgia, Texas and Iowa.

This is what happened when Covid-19 disbanded a college Super Smash Bros. weekly tournament.

These nine tips will help them, their fellow classmates and others stay healthy this school semester.

With an ambitious plan to reopen in-person classes, Purdue University is in the spotlight, even as other colleges shut down with COVID-19 cases.

One person at the overcrowded pool said “I can’t catch COVID. I’m immune to the stuff,” Columbia Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins said.

Small schools in the region hope their size and somewhat self-contained campuses, referred to at times as a bubble, will help them fend off COVID-19.

Mayor Walt Maddox of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Mayor Donnie Tuck of Hampton, Va., and Mayor Bruce Teague of Iowa City, Iowa, on how they're trying to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

Nine students share how the pandemic has affected their studies—and their futures.

IN OTHER NEWS

Samuel Bard was George Washington’s doctor and delivered Alexander Hamilton’s first son. He was also a “pretty significant slave owner.”

The tough guys are gone. Instructors are expected to foster ‘safe,’ ‘nurturing,’ ‘antiracist’ spaces.

A Republican student group at Arizona State University is receiving backlash for donating money to the 17-year-old gunman who fatally shot two protesters in Wisconsin.

TRADES

When it comes to their students testing positive for COVID-19, professors say they have a right to know and share the information how they deem appropriate. Colleges want to keep those cases close to the vest.

How an under-the-radar college in South Carolina nailed its admissions year.

Inside one college town’s fragile, high-stakes fall. (Feat: App State/Boone)

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