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COVID-19 Roundup: Outbreaks and iPads
Two colleges report outbreaks and a third reports its president hospitalized. Duke adjusts plans. Washington State U will go online while Cornell limits student move-in to two suitcases and a backpack. Bowdoin will issue iPads.
Opinion
Colleges and Racial Reckoning
Does changing a college's name advance social justice? Reviewing some of the history of racism on campuses, John R. Thelin urges facing the past as well as erasing it.
UVA Reverses Tenure Denial
The University of Virginia last week reversed its negative tenure decision concerning Paul Harris, an assistant professor of human services who studies identity development in Black male student athletes and underrepresented students' college readiness. Harris, who is Black, appealed the tenure denial earlier this year, citing procedural errors.
Closed Test Centers, COVID-19 and the ACT
Some students couldn't take the ACT; some took it with coronavirus.
Former Bursar's Official Pleads Guilty to Stealing From Howard U
Doemini Mosley, a former top director of Howard University's bursar's office, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Friday to...
Judge Orders Lincoln University President Reinstated
A Pennsylvania county judge has ordered that Brenda Allen, former president of Lincoln University, be reinstated in her former role...
Academic Minute: Magical Thinking
Today on the Academic Minute, Trysh Travis, associate professor at the Center for Gender, Sexualities and Women’s Studies Research at...
HBCUs Grapple With Disparities
As the pandemic and its financial implications refuse to yield, lesser-known historically Black colleges and universities face pressure to bolster their fundraising efforts.