State public health officials estimate 12 to 13% of new cases will end up in hospitals a few weeks down the road.
—Voice of OC
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos didn't offer any reassurances as student loan borrowers near having to make payments again.
—Inside Higher Ed
….In less than a month, on Dec. 31, a moratorium President Trump had put in place excusing most borrowers from making payments on their loans will expire….
—CHE
The economic fortunes of college towns have long been tightly linked to the students who learn and live there. But with fewer students attending college in the wake of the global pandemic — and with many who are enrolled learning from home — economic activity in some college communities has plummeted.
Intellectual curiosity has been replaced by pro forma attention to representation.
—CHE
You might recall the strange case of Matthew J. Mayhew, a professor of educational administration at Ohio State University. In late September he co-wrote an opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed enumerating the many supposed virtues of college football. A week later he issued, in the same venue, an abject apology for the piece, which, he now confessed, had not recognized the various ways his support of collegiate athletics perpetuated white supremacy, and had failed to center the voices of people of color. “I am just beginning to understand,” he wrote, “how I have harmed communities of color with my words. I am learning that my words — my uninformed, careless words — often express an ideology wrought in whiteness and privilege.”
✅ S.F. bans tobacco smoking inside apartment buildings, allows cannabis smoking -- San Francisco residents who live in apartment buildings with three or more units will no longer be allowed to smoke tobacco inside their homes — but they can still smoke cannabis, under a new ordinance the Board of Supervisors passed on Tuesday. Trisha Thadani in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 12/2/20
