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Hazing:
- Aug 24 | Twitter | Gov. Phil Murphy | 102 Retweets: "No longer will hazing be treated with a slap on the wrist. Today I signed Timothy J. Piazza’s Law, requiring middle schools, high schools, and higher education institutions to adopt anti-hazing policies and clear penalties for violations. https://t.co/IxvzmrbgfW"
Media Deals:
- Aug 24 | ESPN | 4.4K Engagements: "The ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 alliance became official Tuesday, with the three conferences coming together "on a collaborative approach...
Kliavkoff has been clear in his mission to improve football in the Pac-12, saying he has been focused on enhancing access to the College Football Playoff and ways to boost football revenue, especially as the Pac-12 prepares to renegotiate its media rights agreement. ”
Enrollment:
- Aug 24 | Berkelyside | 1K Engagements: "An Alameda County judge has ordered UC Berkeley to freeze its enrollment at 2020-21 levels going forward until the university redoes a supplemental environmental impact report (SEIR) for a complex on Hearst Avenue that includes housing and a new academic building for the Goldman School of Public Policy. The freeze will take effect in 2022-23.”
- Aug 23 | Twitter | Philip Lewis | 377 Retweets: "While some universities are experiencing declines in students, many historical Black colleges and universities are seeing a near record surge in enrollment. https://t.co/7QKgf5VSUl"
Campus Safety:
- Aug 19 | Twitter | Hindu American Foundation | 1.1K Retweets: "#BREAKING: HAF's Executive Director @SuhagAShukla writes to presidents of 41 universities reportedly co-sponsoring the controversial Dismantling Global Hindutva event. The partisan political event targets Hindu students and puts their safety at risk. 1/ https://t.co/MwUIa0E61i"
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COVID-19:
Cost of Attendance:
- Aug 19 | Twitter | The Associated Press | 7.5K Retweets: "The Biden administration has announced that it will automatically erase student loan debt for more than 300,000 Americans with severe disabilities that leave them unable to earn significant incomes. The move will wipe out more than $5.8 billion in debt."
Campus Safety:
Mental Health:
- Aug 24 | WQOW | 794 Engagements: "Going to college for the first time can bring stress and anxiety, and officials say COVID-19 has added to mental and emotional exhaustion.
Counselors at UW-Eau Claire say first year students have to take on many new tasks like making friends, adjusting to college and adulthood and academic demands -- which are some causes of poor mental health."
- Aug 18 | Twitter | Crystal M. Fleming | 73 Retweets: "At this point it's not even just a matter of how dire the situation is on any given campus. It's the entire craven landscape of K-12 *and* higher education. Public health, physical health, mental health.. all willfully sacrificed on the capitalist alter of enrollments and profit."
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Rice University: ▲COVID-19
- Aug 23 | The New York Times | 2.8K Engagements: “Rice University, where more than 95 percent of students are vaccinated, announced a move to remote classes last week after testing showed an alarmingly high number of community members with breakthrough coronavirus infections."
Those results, the university now says, were badly distorted by a testing glitch.”
University of Virginia: ▲COVID-19
Boston College: ▲Athletics ▲Alumni Coverage
- Aug 23 | The Boston Globe | 3.1K Engagements: “Jimmy Hayes, a native of Dorchester who won an NCAA hockey championship at Boston College and played two of his seven NHL seasons with the Bruins, died unexpectedly Monday morning. He was 31."
University of Oregon: ▲COVID-19
- Aug 20 | The Seattle Times | 968 Engagements: “Oregon and Oregon State became the first Power Five schools to announce they will require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test for people over the age of 12 to attend football games.
In its announcement Friday, Oregon said the decision was made with public health authorities and “peer institutions in the state.”
- Aug 20 | Twitter | AJ McCord | 60 Retweets: “BREAKING: The University of Oregon will require everyone 12 and older to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test in order to attend university events, including sporting events”
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University of Virginia: ▲COVID-19
- Aug 24 | Upworthy | 2.1K Engagements: “The University of Virginia (UVA) is preparing to reopen for in-person classes this fall. It has disenrolled more than 200 students who failed to comply with the vaccine conditions ahead of the commencement of the semester. Almost 96.6 percent of UVA students have confirmed that they are vaccinated.”
Johns Hopkins University: ▲COVID-19
- Aug 19 | Twitter | Denis Wirtz | 311 Retweets: “Johns Hopkins University requires vaccination AND masking at all times indoors for all. Any university policy that does not require both is dangerous to students, faculty and staff. https://t.co/VncoUfw4se”
Harvard: ▲Admissions ▲Buildings & Monuments
Ohio State: ▲COVID-19
- Aug 25 | The New York Times | 1.3K Engagements: “Ohio State University announced on Tuesday that all students, faculty and staff would be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 during the fall semester, becoming one of the first large state universities to issue a vaccine mandate that extends beyond students.”
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