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‘We Could Be Feeling This for the Next Decade’: Virus Hits College Towns

Opening bars and bringing back football teams have led to new outbreaks. Communities that evolved around campuses face potentially existential losses in population, jobs and revenue. https://www.startribune.com/we-could-be-feeling-this-for-the-next-decade-virus-hits-college-towns/571530792/

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A Message From Your University’s Vice President For Magical Thinking

Our university will proceed as if everything will be okay because we really, really want it to be. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-message-from-your-universitys-vice-president-for-magical-thinking

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For Small Colleges, Decision To Reopen Campus Is Especially Daunting

The Cole Science Center and the Harold F. Johnson Library at the heart of Hampshire College's campus. https://www.wbur.org/edify/2020/06/24/small-college-reopening-decision

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Success Academy spokesperson resigns over ‘abusive’ practices at NYC’s largest charter network

A spokesperson for New York City’s largest charter network resigned in protest, stating she can no longer defend Success Academy’s “racist and abusive practices” that are “detrimental to the emotional well being” of its students. https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/6/23/21300811/success-academy-liz-baker-pr-staffer-leaves-amid-turmoil-over-race A spokesperson for New York City’s largest charter network resigned in protest, stating she can no longer defend Success Academy’s “racist

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Source: 21 more Clemson football players positive for COVID-19 in latest testing

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29336227/21-clemson-football-players-positive-covid-19-latest-testing Of 28 positive coronavirus tests conducted on Clemson student-athletes and staff since their return to campus two weeks ago, 23 belong to football players, a source said Friday.

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For-Profit Colleges, Long Troubled, See Surge Amid Pandemic

The coronavirus shutdowns have made online learning more attractive. But students at some schools say they have been taken advantage of. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/business/coronavirus-for-profit-colleges.html

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Higher Ed’s Reckoning With Race

A conversation about bigotry, diversity, and opportunity. https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-eds-reckoning-with-race

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Expecting Students to Play It Safe if Colleges Reopen Is a Fantasy

Safety plans border on delusional and could lead to outbreaks of Covid-19 among students, faculty and staff. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/opinion/coronavirus-college-safe.html

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Masks required and fewer parties (allegedly): What college will look like this fall

Virginia Tech’s campus in Blacksburg, Va., will open to students this fall, but students will not arrive to the college life they once expected. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/college-coronavirus-fall-campus-open/2020/06/10/f1537346-ab19-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html

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How Architecture Could Help Us Adapt to the Pandemic

The virus isn’t simply a health crisis; it is also a design problem. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/09/magazine/architecture-covid.html

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Rich Colleges Can Afford to Spend More

They’re acting like they exist to protect their endowments, instead of the other way around. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/opinion/sunday/colleges-endowments-covid.html

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The End of College as We Knew It?

Restaurants get eulogies. Airlines get bailouts. Shakespeare gets kicked when he’s down. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-college-humanities.html

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What Will College Be Like in the Fall?

Administrators, professors, a union representative and students consider the new realities of life on campus in the midst of a pandemic. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/magazine/covid-college-fall.html

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USC will reopen for fall semester with online and in-person classes, more distancing in dorms

USC will reopen this fall with several safety measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-02/usc-announces-a-modified-return-to-campus-with-online-and-in-person-classes-and-fewer-people-in-dorms#:~:text=USC%20will%20bring%20students%20back%20to%20campus%20for%20the%20fall,Folt%20announced%20Tuesday%20night.

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