Today's Clips (8/20/21)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

College football season is almost here. Teams are practicing and getting ready for the season. As they prepare, some are also reflecting on the life lessons they learned last season.

CORONAVIRUS

The Covid Campus Coalition uses social media to try to spread science-backed information about the importance of vaccines to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus

Rice University announced that it will move to virtual learning for the first two weeks of the semester due to the rise in COVID-19 and the delta variant.

Of those students, 49 were enrolled in fall courses — meaning that “a good number" of the remaining students "may not have been planning to return to the University this fall at all,” U.Va. spokesperson Brian Coy said in an email to The Virginian-Pilot.

IN OTHER NEWS

Cocreated by Amanda Peet and starring Sandra Oh, the new Netflix series is a sharp satire of academia, touching a number of third rails. Somehow it is also a hilarious rom-com.

It's too easy to think of college mostly as a consumer experience. But students have a lot to offer to their fellow students, and even to their university leaders.

How do we get more coaches to understand that some words and some methods of “motivation” are unacceptable?

Approximately 84 people were exposed to Legionnaires' disease bacteria while attending the K Academy at Duke University.

James Madison University in Virginia is training student employees to recognize that people who identify as male, straight, cisgender, or Christian are "oppressors" that engage in the "systematic subjugation" of other social groups.

TRADES

In an example of how universities and faculty unions can collaborate on pandemic planning, Northern Illinois University and its faculty union have agreed to push the remote instruction button when and if the campus test positivity rate hits 8 percent.

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