Today's Clips (12/7/20)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Davidson College students Andrew Ashur, Adrian Mayans and David Danielson founded Lucid Drone in 2017 to build cleaning drones.

Frequent testing is the way to keep coronavirus from spreading on campus, but many colleges don't have the resources to handle the coming flood of coeds.

Find out what the best small college is in your state, and whether or not your alma mater—or a school you've had in mind to apply to—made the cut.

CORONAVIRUS

College officials say they have learned important lessons about managing the pandemic on their campuses. Not everyone is so confident.

Without traditional campus life and classes, some students postpone education; “You need to have a plan,” a counselor says, but even part-time jobs are hard to find.

College financial-aid applications are down sharply, raising concern about high-school seniors postponing college amid the economic downturn caused by the pandemic.

Presidents of struggling colleges around the U.S.undefined are reacting to the coronavirus pandemic by unilaterally cutting programs, firing professors and gutting tenure, all once-unthinkable changes.

The pandemic meant that colleges and universities are wrapping up a semester unlike any other. We asked four students how they felt about the online classes and alternative housing.

IN OTHER NEWS

A judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate protections for young immigrants brought to the country as children. But their status remains precarious.

My vision for college was destroyed after I wasn't accepted early decision, but that was what finally set me on the right path

Temple University must pay $700,000 under a settlement with the U.S. Education Department for using false data to bolster its online M.B.A. program’s nationwide ranking.

A Tennessee model gets eye-popping results — and a national partner.

TRADES

U of Vermont says announced cuts to the liberal arts are happening. The faculty says otherwise. The bigger story is one of how universities are seizing on COVID-19 to push through long-desired curricular and staffing reforms.

Students at the University of Dallas proposed a club focused on racial justice. Some students and faculty members argued the club would be divisive.

Many students of color aren’t aware that such appeals are even possible.

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