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COVID-19 Roundup: A Domino Falls on Winter Sports
New England conference cancels its winter sports season, and West Chester abandons spring sports. Some colleges resume in-person instruction as others suspend it. And a journal cites COVID-19 policy for taking a side in November.
COVID-19 Mitigation Costs Still Add Up After Students Sent Home
Three North Carolina colleges sent students home only weeks after in-person instruction began. They're still footing the bill for testing, PPE and other COVID-19 prevention measures.
Year of Home Confinement for Parent in Admissions Scandal
Another parent has been sentenced in the admissions scandal. Peter Dameris, whose son was admitted to Georgetown University as a...
Aid Administrators Get More Requests During Pandemic
Most financial aid offices at colleges and universities in a survey said students are increasingly asking them to take into...
Academic Minute: Latina Suicide Rates
Today on the Academic Minute, part of a celebration of the production's 10-year anniversary: In this segment of 2014, Luis...
Justice Department Sues Yale
The Justice Department sued Yale University, claiming the university discriminates against Asian American and white applicants, The Wall Street Journal...
Some Clarification, More Criticism of Trump's Diversity Order
The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs offered some official guidance this week about the White House’s controversial...
Paid Sick Days and Flu Outbreaks
We’re celebrating a decade of the Academic Minute this week and next with one segment from each year. In this...