Today's Clips (1/10/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The Wildcats were able to survive against Rhode Island on Saturday to move to 2-0 in Atlantic 10 play.

Many Charlotte-area universities are delaying the return to in-person classes as the omicron variant of COVID-19 sends cases surging throughout the region.

Researching a pursuit in higher education? Stacker ranked the 100 best private colleges in the U.S., based on data from Niche released in 2021.

CORONAVIRUS

To guard against the infectious variant of the coronavirus, many January terms have gone virtual. Will that be a harbinger for the spring semester?

Schools slashed athletic programs amid financial strain. Students successfully campaigned to revive them by leaning on the now 50-year-old law. 

IN OTHER NEWS

Training programs like Year Up can rescue people like Fred Mutsinzi — but they aren’t cheap.

Northeastern University won’t estimate how much merit aid it might offer if you get in. Can schools make you enroll if they don’t give you enough?

TRADES

Some institutions that began the semester online are now pushing their return-to-campus dates further out in response to Omicron, citing spiking numbers and breakthrough infections.

Some colleges reject the idea, but most appear to be allowing students to visit—with certain precautions.

After an anonymous email, the University of Pennsylvania went to extraordinary lengths to verify a student’s story — reaching out to dozens of people and scrutinizing what she had written about herself in several essays.

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