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COVID-19
As U.S. Schools Face Difficult Choice, Cambridge U Goes Fully Online Until Summer 2021
While U.S. institutions debate whether to open campus for in-person instruction, remain fully online or adopt a hybrid of the two this coming fall, across the pond, Cambridge University has announced all of its lectures will be online-only until summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, reported the BBC. “Given that it is likely that […]
May 20, 2020
Opinion
COVID-19 Will Intensify Education Inequities for Black Students
In the United States, data reveal that Black Americans are contracting and dying from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at rates that double, and sometimes triple their representation across various states.
May 20, 2020
COVID-19
Washington’s AG Challenges Ed Dept on DACA, Other Exclusions in CARES Act
Washington state’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson yesterday challenged a U.S. Department of Education decision to deny student emergency grants allotted in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief & Economic Security (CARES) Act to students who are not eligible for federal financial aid. This lawsuit comes after California community colleges sued Secretary of Education Betsy Devos earlier this […]
May 20, 2020
Sports
Court Says NCAA Can’t Cap Education-Related Benefits for Football and Basketball Student-Athletes
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Monday upheld a ruling that said the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) can’t limit education-related benefits colleges provide to student-athletes who play Football Bowl Subdivision football and Division I basketball.
May 19, 2020
Students
Colleges Make Plans for Safe On-Campus Student Move Out
With spring semester coming to an end, universities and colleges have put protocols in place to ensure the safety of students who are returning to campus housing to pack up their belongings after the COVID-19 outbreak forced early closures.
May 19, 2020
COVID-19
California Community Colleges May Also Stay Online in Fall 2020
California’s 115 community colleges may stay online this coming fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which means 2.1 million students at these institutions will stay home, reported Cal Matters. Already, the California State University system has announced it will only have an online fall. And the University of California also reportedly said none of its […]
May 19, 2020
COVID-19
Hundreds of Harvard Students Say Postponement Is Better Than a Virtual Fall
More than 500 Harvard University students have started a petition arguing against an online only fall semester, saying that postponing the semester is a better option, reported The Harvard Crimson. “We call on Harvard College to postpone, rather than virtually begin, the fall semester if COVID-19 conditions prevent the timely commencement of on-campus activities,” the […]
May 19, 2020
Sports
This HBCU President Is Strongly Against a Fall Reopening
Colleges and universities are “deluding themselves” about getting students back to campuses in the fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic, said Dr. Michael J. Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College which is an HBCU (historically Black college or university). In a recent article in The Atlantic, Sorrell said higher education institutions “are letting their financial and […]
May 19, 2020
News Roundup
Harvard Law Review’s First President of Color Dies of Cancer
Harvard Law Review’s first president of color Raj R. Marphatia died May 8 after a battle with cancer, reported The Harvard Crimson. He was 60. Marphatia was born and raised in India and came to the U.S. in 1977 when in high school. He graduated from Harvard College, and in 1985, enrolled at Harvard Law […]
May 19, 2020
Students
Many Student Veterans May Not Receive COVID-19 Emergency Grants, Says Advocacy Group
Many students veterans may not be eligible to receive federal COVID-19 emergency grants because of Department of Education guidance that restricts these cash grants to students who have filed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, said Veterans Education Success, an advocacy group. “If ED [Department of Education] maintains its April 21 guidance […]
May 19, 2020
Health
The Integrated Liberal Arts Approach: The Curricular Vaccine Higher Education Needs Now More Than Ever
Perhaps the COVID-19 pandemic that we are all battling on a global scale will serve as a great reminder that we need an integrated multidisciplinary lens to create better models, predictions, and policies to understand, prevent and contain the pandemic.
May 19, 2020
Students
Report: Undocumented Students Generated $133 Million in Emergency Aid, but They Won’t Receive a Penny
An estimated half-million undocumented students enrolled in colleges and universities generated up to $132.6 million in COVID-19 federal stimulus emergency aid for their institutions, according to a recent analysis from a Washington-based policy institute. Yet those same students are barred from receiving any of that aid.
May 18, 2020
Community Colleges
Why Flexibility in Credit Transfers Is Crucial for Equity in a Post-COVID-19 World
Higher education groups have urged four-year institutions to revamp how they evaluate credits earned by students transferring campuses, saying both four-year and two-year colleges must ensure that more credits count toward baccalaureate degrees, especially in a post-coronavirus economy.
May 18, 2020
Community Colleges
2020 Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges Set the Standard When it Comes to Inclusive Practices
Sixteen institutions are featured in Diverse’s 2020 Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges (MPPWCC), highlighting their focus on recruitment, hiring and retention of diverse faculty and staff as well as inclusive campus policies and initiatives.
May 18, 2020
News Roundup
A Stanford Center Plans Reforms After Backlash Over Professor’s Use of N-Word
Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity has decided to institute reform measures after backlash following a professor’s use of the N-Word during two separate classes, one in late April and one in early May, reported The Stanford Daily. The center plans to increase instructor representation, revise teaching methods and establish a […]
May 18, 2020
COVID-19
Providence College Apologizes After Students Gather for ‘Parade’
Providence College in Rhode Island has apologized to the community after many of its students flouted COVID-19 executive orders on Saturday by gathering on streets near campus in groups larger than five and without face masks, reported WPRI 12. “On behalf of the college, I apologize to the Elmhurst and Smith Hill communities for their […]
May 18, 2020
HBCUs
Music Icon Little Richard Will Be Buried at His HBCU Alma Mater
Rock and Roll legend Little Richard, who died of bone cancer on May 9, will be buried on Wednesday at his alma mater Oakwood University, a historically Black institution in Huntsville, Alabama, reported the Associated Press. The funeral for the musician, who died at 87, will be a private ceremony, said Gerald Kibble, the director […]
May 18, 2020
HBCUs
Morehouse College to Cut Jobs, Salaries to Offset Budget Deficit
Morehouse College said in a statement on Monday that it will cut jobs and salaries, and implement furloughs to offset an anticipated fiscal year 2020-2021 budget deficit and to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Atlanta institution, a historically Black college or university (HBCU), estimates a potential 25% decline in enrollment because […]
May 18, 2020
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