Today's Clips (4/12/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

The lack of testing defies a key best practice for preventing the spread of coronavirus on campus.

According to the College Crisis Initiative dashboard at Davidson College in North Carolina, which tracked colleges and their plans for fall 2020, Seton Hill — a private university with an enrollment of about 2,000 students — was among nearly 800 colleges that opted to keep dorms and classrooms open. Of those schools, 114 were fully in person. The remainder, like Seton Hill, offered students the option of attending classes remotely.

Evy Leibfarth, 17, of Bryson City, the reigning female national champion in her sport, will compete at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials April 12-14 in Charlotte.

CORONAVIRUS

The horrors of Covid-19 may give proponents of the liberal arts an unexpected opening.

A year of school shutdowns and family trauma leads to social isolation, stress and mental-health issues.

U.S. colleges hoping for a return to normalcy next fall are weighing how far they should go in urging students to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including whether they should — or legally can — require it

IN OTHER NEWS

Prof. Carl Hart saw drugs as destroyers of communities. Then he saw the positive side. “We have miseducated the public,” he said.

The monument evokes a broken shackle and seeks to honor the 4,000 enslaved laborers who constructed the university, many of whose descendants still live in Charlottesville.

TRADES

Higher education institutions should reimagine the responsibility they have to ensure college is the true force for equity that it can and should be, Jeff Raikes argues.

Survey finds that they want requirements -- and so do their parents -- despite actions in Florida, Texas and Utah that might make them impossible.

A close mentorship is this college’s hallmark. What happens when it has to move online?

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