Today's Clips (9/24/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Joe Biden’s visit to North Carolina comes a day before Trump’s Charlotte airport rally.

During a conversation with Davidson College, the author of “How to Be an Antiracist’ lashes out at those who say they “don’t do politics.”

Picking Barrett could prompt more specific questions about guns, abortion and LGBTQ rights.

"Being in a physical school environment is vital for our kids for their physical well-being, their emotional and mental health and also nutrition services," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said.

The study suggested that 3,000 cases a day could be linked to campus reopenings.

CORONAVIRUS

As the Pac-12 tries to formulate a plan for its most prominent sport, dozens of other sports are awaiting news on their seasons. But how do you prepare for a schedule that doesn’t exist?

There are currently no trials underway, making a vaccine unlikely before fall of 2021. And students are missing online school at alarming rates.

A snapshot of fall enrollment shows fewer students are pursuing undergraduate degrees this semester as the coronavirus continues to sow fears of infection and devastate the economy.

Anyone who can't follow social gathering rules is being asked to consider canceling their housing contract.

Beloit College undergrads keeping their campus safe from Covid-19 by enforcing rules they wrote that take into consideration that students will be students.

North Carolina State University officials said Wednesday that plans for the spring semester, which starts Jan. 11, currently include a mix of online and in-person classes and reduced capacity in dormitories.

IN OTHER NEWS

Amazingly, the school did something to fix it.

Harvard Business School said it would boost future enrollment of Black students, hire a chief diversity officer and give race and diversity issues a more prominent place in its case-study method of teaching.

Paul Quinn College will become the first historically Black college to partner with Guild Education, a Denver-based firm that works with companies such as Walmart and Lowe’s to provide education benefits to employees.

Given the upheaval higher education has faced this year, president Ronald A. Crutcher said he wants to give the university ample time to find his replacement.

TRADES

Community colleges are seeing a bleak enrollment picture and undergraduate enrollments are down largely across the board, but not by as much as some had feared.

HBCUs are getting high student compliance with social distancing and mask wearing and are reporting lower coronavirus infection rates. College leaders partly credit Black college culture -- and student awareness of the toll of the pandemic on Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities.

Jill Lepore on how algorithms came to supersede art, and the distorting effects of money in academe.

With the tenure-track market stalled, a history Ph.D. was urged to pursue Plan B. Unfortunately, he says, the alt-ac career trajectory is broken, too.

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