Today's Clips (10/21/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The Trump campaign wants to convince you that electing Joe Biden would quickly put Kamala Harris in charge of the country.

Companies like 2U, called online program managers, typically front the capital needed to get a virtual academic program off the ground. In exchange, they get a share of its tuition revenue, usually between 40% and 60%. The expanded partnership brings that same model to Simmons' online undergraduate courses, though officials declined to share the revenue split.

CORONAVIRUS

Some House candidates, typically Democrats, can usually count on support from students living on college campuses, but many of those students are now living back home.

These tips from experts will help you discuss the coronavirus with your kids so they’re more likely to listen.

English departments are increasingly under pressure to justify their existence. But have the eternal lessons of great books ever mattered more?

Empty dorms are putting pressure on U.S. colleges to help investors in the approximately $14 billion student housing debt market, adding to the strain on schools already reeling from the pandemic.

The pandemic has revealed that higher education was never about education.

All University of Michigan undergraduate students are now under an emergency stay-in-place order, after data shows that Covid-19 cases among Michigan students represents more than 60% of all local cases.

While some schools are getting crushed by the pandemic, tiny Colby College is unveiling “Disney World” for athletes.

IN OTHER NEWS

Cornell University initially failed to disclose to U.S. authorities more than $1.2 billion in foreign funds it has received in recent years—one of the findings in an Education Department report Tuesday on foreign funding of U.S. schools.

Two students claim UM’s dean of students told a handful of campus protesters at a virtual meeting on Sept. 22 that they were identified at an unsanctioned demonstration using specialized software that analyzed camera footage of the event.

Yale is being attacked for doing too much to support students from underrepresented backgrounds, but the truth is that the university still has far to go.

TRADES

Scholars discuss what it’s like to be a Black professor in 2020, who should be doing antiracist work on campus and why diversity interventions that attempt to “fix” Black academics for a rigged game miss the point entirely.

New research on how some free college programs affect enrollment is promising. But it comes at a time when some of these programs are being scaled back due to the pandemic.

Marygrove College's library collection has been digitized and is available on the Internet Archive's website -- even as the organization battles a high-profile court case.

Frustrated students criticize campus leaders as dorm outbreaks fuel a rise in cases. Now the county health department is stepping in.

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