Crime log: Female student targeted in online fraud

A female student reported that she was the victim of online employment check fraud at the Statesman Apartments.
Students sign petition for officials to reinstate pre-law adviser

A student launched a petition this month calling for officials to reinstate the senior academic adviser for CCAS pre-law students who was recently laid off.
Protesters shouldn't have to feel threatened by police at demonstrations

The job of police is to protect and serve its residents, not to attack them and commit violent acts against them in the name of maintaining civility.

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articles from Inside Higher Ed

Live Updates: Latest News on Coronavirus and Higher Education

CDC: COVID-19 Cases Among Young Adults Rose Sharply as Campuses Filled The number of young adults with COVID-19 rose by 55 percent from early August […]
Colleges start new programs

California Lutheran University is starting a major in ethnic and race studies. East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania is starting an actuarial […]
Study offers new framework for evaluating the degree to which various institutions offer a liberal arts and sciences education

In a new contribution to the long-running debate over the value of a liberal arts education, a new study provides a novel framework for measuring the […]

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articles from the Chronicle of Higher Ed

How a Fight Over a Black Lives Matter Statement Transformed an Academic Association

The group's meltdown and subsequent remaking show how a key unit of academe can be transformed by scholars' evolving political consciousness.
Transitions: New President Named at the U. of Nevada at Reno; President of the U. of Maryland Global Campus to Retire

Brian Sandoval will become the first Hispanic president of the University of Nevada at Reno.
Have College Students Spread Covid-19 Beyond Their Campuses? It May Be Too Early to Tell

Public-health officials say they have not yet seen evidence of the surge in community spread that they feared.

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from the New York Times

‘Super Healthy’ College Student Dies of Rare Covid-19 Complications

Chad Dorrill, a 19-year-old at Appalachian State, recovered from flulike symptoms but then developed neurological problems.
Cuomo and De Blasio Need a United Front on Coronavirus Hot Spots

Working together, the governor and mayor can help keep the virus at bay.
Behind the White House Effort to Pressure the C.D.C. on School Openings

Documents and interviews show how senior officials sought to play down the risks of sending children back to the classroom, alarming public health experts.

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articles from the Washington Post

After pressure from Florida governor, Miami will open some schools more than two weeks earlier than planned

Some students will start Oct. 5 on a staggered schedule that will last for several days.

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The Undercommons

Battling with the University for the University: Organizing, Friendship, and Performativity in the NYU Sanctuary Movement

[Photo: Ryan Quan from NYU News] by James McMaster and Olivia Michiko Gagnon What follows is not an account of escalating strategies and spectacular confrontations. That can be found in the news. Consider this a fragmentary homage to and audit of the ideological and intimate micropolitics of […]
Join us for our first open online strategy session March 25, 3:45pm EST

All those who struggle within, against and beyond the neoliberal, neocolonial university are invited to join us on March 25 (15:45-17:15 EST) for a special online/offline strategy session, broadcasting live from the Organizing Equality conference in London, Ontario. This session aims to share and […]
CFP: From Sanctuary to Sabotage: Fighting the Fascist Creep at and beyond Universities

CALL FOR PROVOCATIONS (April 30, 2017) The 2016 US election has been framed as both a decisive break from “politics as usual” and as a continuation and intensification of longstanding racialized, gendered, and sexualized global class warfare. In this allegedly post-truth era, the university […]