Today's Clips (9/1/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

As students return to college for the fall semester, they're finding online and in-person classes are starting to feel the same. Some feel cheated.

Nick Baker knows you’re probably tired of hearing about athletes and protests. He knows you may not want to have uncomfortable conversations about race and social justice. But the former

Community and church leaders are renewing calls for the removal of a Confederate monument in Cornelius erected by a private group 110 years ago.

Athletes make up a big share of students at some small colleges. What happens when there are no fall sports?

CORONAVIRUS

Disciplinary action is taken over parties and large gatherings as cases mount on campus.

the female occupants of a room upstairs are “deeply committed to Taylor Swift,” he says.

Business school students are bracing for an uncertain job market this coming school year as many traditional corporate recruiters shelve their usual fall hiring plans. The murky job market has both students and schools worried.

An analysis of the problem, with some solutions.

As the Summer of COVID draws to a close, many experts fear an even bleaker fall and suggest that American families should start planning for Thanksgiving by Zoom.

With desperate pleas and social contracts failing to curb college parties, schools have turned to punitive consequences. But are the students the ones to blame?

Nearly 30% of those UNC students who were tested for COVID-19 last week were positive. 

Most of the cases were among people with no symptoms and a small number with mild to moderate flu-like symptoms.

No jobs right now? That will change, and college will pay off.

IN OTHER NEWS

The board of trustees said an independent forensic firm would look into all facets of Liberty’s operations, including “financial, real estate and legal matters,” while Mr. Falwell was president.

The family of a University of New Mexico football player who killed himself in November has sued the university, the former football coach and the N.C.A.A.

TRADES

After Brown University cut eight varsity sports teams, athletes and advocacy groups argued the cuts violated a legal agreement to sustain women’s athletics. Administrators expressed frustration with meeting the agreement and leaked emails show they considered ways to get out of it.

College enrollments declined sharply this summer among Black undergraduates and men, and at community colleges and rural institutions, raising worries about the fall and worsening equity gaps.

Mayors of college towns are often working closely with college officials on policy related to the pandemic, but what’s best for the college is not necessarily what’s best for everyone else.

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