✅Freshmen forced to overhaul college plans, dreams
After weeks of uncertainty about universities' reopening plans, college students are facing potentially life-altering decisions about their safety and their futures.
WashPo
✅Young people emerge as main virus spreaders, WHO says
WashPo
✅Slowing COVID-19 outbreak has California weighing what next reopening will look like -- California health officials are beginning to mull what the next phase of reopening may look like, offering a glimmer of hope for places like Los Angeles County. Joseph Serna in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/19/20
✅Top California health official on coronavirus pandemic: ‘The state picture is stabilizing’ -- The number of Californians hospitalized for COVID-19 had been falling steadily over the last two weeks, but rose for the first time Monday, Ghaly said. He added that it is too soon to say whether that reversal is part of a larger trend or a one-off. Catherine Hoand Erin Allday in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 8/19/20
✅California to join legal challenge against Trump administration over USPS reductions -- Amid a growing outcry against cutbacks at the U.S. Postal Service, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced Tuesday that he would suspend the changes until after the election. Maya Lau in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/19/20
✅West Nile virus activity rampant in California. Heat wave speeds up mosquito breeding -- The leader of the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito & Vector Control District warned local residents that West Nile virus is intensifying after receiving word earlier in the day that 20 mosquito samples tested positive for the illness. Cathie Andersonin the Sacramento Bee$ -- 8/19/20
✅G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Details Ties Between 2016 Trump Campaign and Russia -- It provided a bipartisan Senate imprimatur for an extraordinary set of facts: The Russian government disrupted an American election to help Mr. Trump become president, Russian intelligence services viewed members of the Trump campaign as easily manipulated, and some of Mr. Trump’s advisers were eager for the help from an American adversary. Mark Mazzetti in the New York Times$ Greg Miller, Karoun Demirjian and Ellen Nakashima in the Washington Post$ Andrew Desiderio, Kyle Cheney and Martin Matishak Politico -- 8/19/20
✅Michigan State, Notre Dame Back Off From Fall Reopening Plans
Notre Dame suspends in-person classes for two weeks amid rising case counts. Michigan State calls off in-person instruction for the fall, less than two weeks before students were to return to campus.
Inside Higher Ed
✅COVID-19 College Marketing Draws Criticism
Some predominantly online institutions have ramped up marketing efforts to attract students during the pandemic. A foundation's report tracks spending and criticizes a pattern of “concerning” ads.
Inside Higher Ed
✅Students Reporting Depression and Anxiety at Higher Rates
About one-third of undergraduate, graduate and professional school students screened during the summer were found to have depression or anxiety, or both, which is a higher rate than seen in years past, according to a new report by the Student Experience in the Research University, or SERU, Consortium.
Inside Higher Ed
Professors and students push back against controversial take from John Eastman, saying his views don't reflect a majority of the university.
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WEIRD VID:
Anti-Mathur: the "Get the Goo Out" rally, 2005 (Saga, pt 2)
Jan 6, 2008
SOCCCD Marcia Milchiker (plugging the colleges, 50th Anniversary)
Mar 8, 2017
Dr Tod A Burnett, Brandman University (pitchman for “Graduway”)
Jun 29, 2020
Roquemore Tandem Jump (jumps out of plane, lands on head)
Jul 26, 2011
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Thank you, Roy, for compiling so much helpful information about our current virus issues, academic and political concerns and local going-on.
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