Today's Clips (2/26/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Coronavirus cases have continued to emerge by the tens of thousands this year at colleges, a New York Times survey has found.

If humanity’s priorities were measured in building costs, then they would rank as: reverence for God, the future of physics

CORONAVIRUS

Spring break is going to look different this year for college students. Most university leaders have changed the traditional schedule in an effort to keep students on campus and coronavirus cases down.

IN OTHER NEWS

Lower courts had rejected a challenge to Harvard’s race-conscious admissions practices.

More than 2 million Black men who pursued a higher education never reached graduation. Morehouse President David Thomas says a flexible new online program aims to help them cross the finish line.

A new report from the Eos Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit in Massachusetts, has caught the attention of schools and equal-pay advocates alike in drawing conclusions around apparent gender-pay discrepancies on many of America's most competitive college campuses.

Harvard University, the richest U.S. college, saw its fossil-fuel investments decline to less than 2% in fiscal 2020.

TRADES

The testing organization says the switch in admissions policies was "abrupt rather than deliberate" but that the policies are here to stay.

New guidelines from textbook publisher Pearson aim to dismantle systemic racism in higher ed. Do they go far enough?

Without them, academe could lose women and people of color.

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