8-24: muzzling violent outbursts by anti-maskers - PLUS Kellyanne bails

✅Orange County removed from California’s coronavirus watch list -- The move marks a turning point for the county. If the rates of new cases and tests performed, percentages of positive tests and hospitalizations, as well as available intensive care beds and ventilators remain at acceptable levels for the next two weeks, K-12 students could resume in-person classes after Labor Day weekend. Andrea Castillo in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/24/20

✅Will Students Show Up at Private Colleges?

     Some institutions are having record years, but many others are starting the year with 10 or 20 percent of students not there. And some have lost more.

—Inside Higher Ed

 

✅COVID-19 Roundup: Clusters, Parties and Punishments

     This weekend, several colleges and universities delayed move-ins, put classes online and sent students home around the country. Outbreaks continue to spread on open campuses, often linked to parties.

—Inside Higher Ed

 

✅Alumni, Students Protest Pence as Commencement Speaker 

     Alumni of and students at Wisconsin Lutheran College are protesting the college's decision to invite Vice President Mike Pence to speak at commencement ceremonies Saturday.

     "WLC has insisted that this event 'is not in any way meant to be viewed as a political event, as it cannot be, and is not a political statement,'" the alumni and students say in an open letter. "They claim the decision was apolitical. However, the mere invitation of a vice president of an incredibly divisive and controversial ticket to speak in a swing state months before an election is ignorant and deceptive. Speaking to young adults months before an election is a political move and not one that WLC can decide is apolitical."

—Inside Higher Ed

 

✅In Santa Cruz Mountains, the fight is on to save small towns as CZU Complex fire roars on -- The fight to save the small towns of the San Lorenzo Valley from unrelenting fire turned in favor of firefighters Sunday, if only briefly, as crews beat the blaze back to the wooded ridges above. But the battle, in the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, was far from over. Kurtis Alexander in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 8/24/20

✅Wildfires are an annual California nightmare now. Will they only get worse? -- Nearly three years after a swarm of Wine Country wildfires devastated California, another explosion of flames is making clear that the state’s efforts to fight the crisis may be no match for the worsening conditions fueling it. J.D. Morris and Rachel Swan in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 8/24/20

 

✅Trump’s family members, conservative allies dominate GOP convention lineup -- The Republican National Convention will be heavy on members of President Trump’s family, as well as conservative congressional allies of the president, senior administration officials and viral stars who have gained fame and a following on the right. Seung Min Kim and Felicia Sonmez in the Washington Post$ -- 8/24/20

✅Twitter Flags Trump Tweet for Dissuading Voting -- Twitter hid one of President Trump’s tweets behind a notice warning users that the message violated company rules against dissuading people from voting. Mr. Trump posted the tweet, which said that ballot drop boxes were not being sanitized to prevent the coronavirus and could be used for fraud, about five hours before Twitter took action on Sunday. Kate Conger in the New York Times$ -- 8/24/20

 

✅Kellyanne Conway to leave the White House at the end of the month, citing the need to focus on her family -- Conway’s announcement comes on the eve of the Republican National Convention as Trump seeks to gain momentum for a tough reelection battle ahead. Ashley Parker in the Washington Post$ -- 8/24/20

 

✅Public officials move to muzzle violent outbursts by anti-maskers -- Leading public health authorities all but beg people to wear them. Local, state and federal government officials are imploring, and in two-thirds of states, mandating, citizens to don them in public. Even the most mask-averse potential “role model,” President Trump, has intermittently begun sporting one. Julia Barajas in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/23/20

✅Trump will use California to drive home his message: Democrats will wreck America -- President Trump faces many challenges as the Republican National Convention starts Monday: a pandemic that has killed more than 175,000 Americans, an economy in free fall, high unemployment, and a blossoming racial justice movement firmly opposed to him. Joe Garofoli in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 8/23/20

✅Europe Tried to Limit Mass Job Cuts, but They’re Coming Anyway

     Despite furlough schemes that have kept tens of millions of people employed, a tsunami of layoffs is about to hit as companies downsize.

—NYT

✅N.Y. Attorney General Asks Judge to Order Eric Trump’s Testimony

     The Trump Organization has stalled a state inquiry into the financing of four properties for months, Attorney General Letitia James said in court papers.

—NYT

✅Today's County Covid numbers

8-23: To party or not to party? PLUS: the mystery of Covid "long-haulers"

✅We know too little about Covid-19 'long-haulers.' We need a comprehensive study
Covid patients are reporting persistent, long-term symptoms of chronic fatigue. Let’s get to the bottom of this
—Guardian UK
   …We agree with Dr Fauci: Getting the pandemic under control is obviously the top priority, but we also should not ignore the long-term impact of Covid-19. The threat of severe illness and death may be behind them, and the virus may no longer be detectable in their bodies, but some people with Covid-19 remain seriously incapacitated. We need to figure out why, and try to fix it….

✅Why Some People Get Terribly Sick from COVID-19

Beyond factors such as age and sex, underlying aspects of biology and society influence disease severity

—Scientific American

     …For a given individual, the elements of risk stack up like the layers of a Russian nesting doll. The innermost core includes genes, biological sex and age. Cellular and hormonal factors that accompany these characteristics affect vulnerability to infectious microbes, including SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus causing the pandemic. The second layer consists of diseases and chronic conditions acquired over time, many of which make it easier for the virus to enter cells or harder for the body to fight it effectively. The outermost layer reflects the accumulated nicks and gouges of external circumstance: housing and work conditions, poor access to health care, nutritional status, and exposure to toxins and pollution. For people of color, these social and economic aspects include the cumulative stresses of systemic racism and discrimination….

 

✅More than 1 million acres have burned in California since July as monster fires rage around Bay Area -- With more than 1 million acres already burned in California since July, emergency officials braced for yet another day of dangerous fire weather on Sunday as a series of deadly blazes around the Bay Area have destroyed hundreds of homes and sent tens of thousands fleeing. Rong-Gong Lin II, Alex Wigglesworth, Susanne Rust in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/23/20

✅Hey, California: With wildfires, blackouts, bloody protests, pandemic, could 2020 get any worse? -- Historic wildfires. Frantic evacuations. Punishing heat waves. The first rolling blackouts in two decades. And that was just this past week. A coronavirus pandemic that has killed 11,000 Californians, tanked the economy, forced millions out of work and set up epic parent-child battles over online schooling. Violent clashes between police and protesters. Even the odd stuff is ominous, like the guy in Lake Tahoe who tested positive last week for the bubonic plague. Julia Prodis Sulek in the San Jose Mercury$ -- 8/23/20

 

✅To party or not to party? USC students living off-campus weigh COVID-19 risk -- Ethan Recinto could hear the laughter and faint thrum of music from his second-floor apartment near USC. It was midnight and he was trying to sleep. Laura Newberry in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/22/20

✅Prop. 209’s affirmative action ban drove down Black and Latino UC enrollment and wages, study finds -- California’s ban on affirmative action has significantly harmed Black and Latino students by reducing their enrollment across University of California campuses, lowering their graduation rates and driving down subsequent wages, a new UC Berkeley study has found. Teresa Watanabe in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/22/20

 

✅Lopez: The case for four more years of Donald J. Trump, in his own words -- On the eve of the Republican National Convention, it’s worth noting that no one has made a greater case for reelecting Donald Trump — if not adding him to the lineup at Mount Rushmore — than the president himself. But don’t take my word for it. Take his. Steve Lopez in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/22/20

✅The latest OC Covid-19 numbers 

8-22: President’s Sister Describes Trump as Liar With ‘No Principles’

✅In raising the idea of law enforcement at polls, Trump invokes tactics of voter intimidation
Civil rights advocates said even the threat of encountering law enforcement officials at the polls could be frightening to some voters, particularly in communities of color where residents distrust the police.

—WashPo

 

Sound familiar? Check out Voter suppression: 1988 and 2018 (DtB, Tom Fuentes hires poll guards)

✅Dems say evidence shows DeJoy was picked to lead Postal Service after 'highly irregular' process
A former top official at the agency also alleged that the Trump administration was trying to politicize the agency.

—Politico

 

✅Data Duel Between State and Orange County Complicates Local Reopening Effort

Voice of OC

     Orange County might come off the state’s coronavirus watchlist Saturday, but questions are emerging about the data driving the decision because of conflicting numbers between the state and the county. 

     Counties are put on the watchlist for worsening virus trends, like more than 100 new cases per 100,000 residents over a 14-day period, a testing positivity greater than 8 percent during a seven-day period, or increasing hospitalization rates. 

     According to county and state data, OC meets the thresholds for hospitals and testing positivity rates, but there’s a discrepancy between the number of cases per 100,000 people. 

     County data shows nearly 97 new cases per 100,000 people, while state data shows almost 183 new cases, as of Friday….

 

✅In secretly recorded audio, Trump’s sister says he has ‘no principles’ and ‘you can’t trust him’

     “I’m talking too freely,” Maryanne Trump Barry, a former federal judge and President Trump’s older sister, said during 15 hours recorded in 2018 and 2019 by her niece, Mary L. Trump. Barry’s remarks are the most critical comments known to have been made about the president by one of his siblings.

—WashPo

✅LAPD fires projectiles as protesters clash at Trump rally -- About 3 p.m., officers with the LAPD’s Foothill division responded to the area by Lowell Avenue and Foothill Boulevard to disperse a crowd of supporters of President Trump and counter-protesters, the department said in a news release. Leila Miller in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/22/20

 

✅Some Orange County schools to reopen as COVID-19 cases drop. What about L.A.? -- The Orange County Health Care Agency has announced that state waivers have been approved for in-person classes to begin at about 24 private elementary schools and one public school district serving kindergarten through sixth grade. Colleen Shalby in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/22/20

 

✅Live Coronavirus Updates: UCLA Scales Back Fall Plan, Northeastern Warns Students Who Signaled Plans to Party

—CHE

I say a little prayer

I want to show this video and play this song for two reasons. First, I loved this single back in the day—late 1967—which is odd, I guess, because I was 12 years old and into Dylan and the Beatles, not lady singers of Brill Building tunes. (I also loved Dusty Springfield's "Wishin' and Hopin'," 1964, another David/Bacharach tune.) 

Second, lyricist Hal David intended the song as expressing the perspective of a worried war bride (or girlfriend) whose man is serving in Vietnam. I wonder if many who enjoyed the song back in 1967 understood that? I never heard the song that way, exactly, though I was moved by it.

Now that I understand the writer’s intent, the song seems even more compelling to me. It makes me admire David (and Bacharach and Warwick) even more. What a great song and great sentiment, making the war and its evils real and tangible and particular.

Looking back all those years ago, it seems to me that the country had a weirdly unhealthy awareness of that war. People of my generation all knew people who had died or the wives and girlfriends and family of guys who had died in Vietnam. I recall one of my teachers, a beautiful, tall young woman with red hair and kind eyes—Mrs. Cornelius—suddenly seeming sad, her efforts to teach us suddenly joyless. Eventually, I learned that her husband had been killed in that distant jungle, and I was saddened to think that she was doing her job, perhaps out of necessity, despite her loss. And, to that extent, with people everywhere experiencing or witnessing proximate tragedy, Americans on the home front genuinely felt the war, I guess. Yet, somehow, for me, the war often seemed to be a thing ignored and denied, as I looked around me at the unimpeded flow of loony busyness and endless crass commerce and wild striving. 

The song still moves me; but I think of it differently now, as a piece of beautiful recognition and realism. That Dionne Warwick was an African-American makes the song even more poignant somehow.

 

The moment I wake up
Before I put on my makeup
I say a little prayer for you

 

I was not aware at the time—too caught up in Beatles or Buffalo Springfield or Dylan, I guess—but, a year after Warwick’s hit, Aretha Franklin did a cover of the song. I’m not sure how much thought she put into it—it came about more or less by accident—but I have to say that I prefer her soulful version, with her inspired singing and churchy piano accompaniment. 

I keep thinking of these recordings these days. They made real the tragedy we were in.

Like the long-ago Vietnam War, this Covid crisis is so obviously going down wrong. We lost 58,000 Americans in Vietnam, and, largely, we kept doing the same frantic, crazy things as before, and dark reality managed to poke through only imperfectly. As I write this, three times that number of Americans have died miserable deaths of Covid-19, and over a far shorter period. And it seems to me that, for many Americans, and for our "leadership," the reality of that horror is denied or rejected, a fact that promises to extend the Covid horror far further into the indefinite future.

8-21: Will Shame Make Students Stop Socializing? PLUS: 26 Covid deaths reported in OC today

✅ OC Could be Removed From State Coronavirus Watchlist, Potentially Allowing More Reopenings — Voice of OC

✅ Will Shame Make Students Stop Socializing?

     Shame and fear aren't the best motivators for public health campaigns, experts say. But colleges take that approach amid COVID-19 outbreaks as campuses reopen.

Inside Higher Ed

 

✅ UC Santa Cruz forced to evacuate amid fires - students, faculty shelter at the beach -- A raging and unpredictable complex of wildfires forced authorities Thursday to order the evacuation of UC Santa Cruz, one of the few times a top California learning institution has been forced to flee from flames. Stuart Leavenworth in the Los Angeles Times$ Jessica A. York, Nicholas Ibarra in the Santa Cruz Sentinel -- 8/21/20

✅ A ballot prop that could boost racial equity among university faculty -- Come November, California voters will determine the fate of affirmative action… again. What they decide will have a huge impact on higher education. Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters -- 8/21/20

✅ Cal State in the COVID era: No tuition cuts, 4 other takeaways from chancellor chat -- In a virtual town hall event hosted by CalMatters, Cal State Chancellor Tim White answered questions about COVID-19 testing, tuition, faculty preparedness, and more. Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters -- 8/21/20

✅ Were Falwell’s Yacht Vacations Aboveboard?

     Questions are being raised about the propriety of Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr.’s use of a yacht owned by NASCAR mogul Rick Hendrick for multiple family vacations.

     Liberty has a multimillion-dollar sponsorship deal with Hendrick’s company, Hendrick Motorsports, according to reporting by Politico. The deal has been in place since at least 2018 and is thought to cost the university around $6 million a year.

Inside Higher Ed

 

✅ Live Coronavirus Updates: Colleges Suspend Dozens for Parties, Leaders Speak Out Against Blaming Students

CHE

✅ Democrats divided: Newsom’s family-leave plan faces resistance from his own party -- It doesn’t sound like an idea that would generate much controversy in a statehouse dominated by Democrats: Should more California workers be assured they can return to their jobs if they take time off to care for a sick family member or new baby? Laurel Rosenhall CalMatters -- 8/21/20

✅ California wildfires are so intense they’re frying the fire cams: See dramatic images -- The lightning-sparked wildfires raging across Northern California are so intense that for the first time, they are torching the remote cameras that help monitor them. Kellie Hwang in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 8/21/20

 

✅ Trump on California wildfires: ‘You got to get rid of the leaves’ -- President Trump renewed his criticism of California’s forestry practices Thursday as wildfires burned up and down the state, saying “many years of leaves and broken trees” are contributing to the disasters. “I see again, the forest fires are starting. They’re starting again in California,” Trump said at a campaign event in Old Forge, Pa. “And I said, you’ve got to clean your floors. You’ve got to clean your forests.” Trapper Byrne in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 8/21/20

 

✅ At Democratic convention, Newsom criticizes Trump for California fire comments -- In a video appearance Thursday at the Democratic National Convention, Gov. Gavin Newsom tore into President Trump for threatening to strip federal funding for wildfire prevention in California after nearly 500,000 acres burned in storm-related lightning strikes, criticizing him further for trying to dismantle the state’s landmark vehicle emission standards. Phil Willon in the Los Angeles Times$ Alexei Koseff in the San Francisco Chronicle$ Carla Marinucci Politico -- 8/21/20

 

✅ No deal yet in Sacramento to help struggling California renters -- With less than two weeks before a statewide moratorium on renter evictions expires, California lawmakers on Thursday declined to back a plan that would have provided tax credits for landlords while sending a separate proposal that would protect tenants back for additional negotiations with Gov. Gavin Newsom. Patrick McGreevy in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/21/20

✅ ‘Totally worth it.’ Mom, daughter answers stranger’s plea to save Stripper the cat in Bay Area fire -- As the one of the state’s largest fires rained ash on her hometown and destroyed homes just beyond the city limits, Carrie Paulson decided to drive right into it to save a cat. Not her cat, but a complete stranger’s. Molly Sullivan in the Sacramento Bee$ -- 8/21/20

 

✅ San Diego Supervisor by Day, But a COVID-19 Skeptic on the Airwaves -- Since May, County Supervisor Jim Desmond has positioned himself as the most high-profile skeptic of the coronavirus to hold local office. He’s primarily given voice on his podcast to people who believe the dangers of COVID-19 are exaggerated, particularly in schools. Katy Stegall Voiceofsandiego.org -- 8/20/20

✅ DeJoy Tells Senators Election Mail Will Be Delivered ‘Fully and on Time’

     Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general who is under fire for recent changes that have slowed mail delivery, defended his approach to Congress.
NYT

8-20: Steve Bannon Is Charged With Fraud—PLUS "eviction cliff" & 23 OC Covid deaths reported

"Fraud."

✅Trump Phone Calls Add to Lingering Questions About Russian Interference -- More than 200 pages into a sprawling, 1,000-page report on Russian election interference, the Senate Intelligence Committee made a startling conclusion endorsed by both Republicans and Democrats: Donald J. Trump knew of and discussed stolen Democratic emails at critical points late in his 2016 presidential campaign. Julian E. Barnes in the New York Times$ -- 8/20/20

✅Orange County records first death of a child from COVID-19 -- The Orange County Health Care Agency reported the first local death of someone under 18 to COVID-19 — a teenage girl. A news release issued late Wednesday, Aug. 19, said the Health Care Agency confirmed what it described as a “pediatric death related to COVID-19.” The agency said the case involved a female in her teens “with significant underlying medical conditions.” Theresa Walker in the Orange County Register -- 8/20/20

 

✅‘No one is ready for it.’ Fleeing a raging fire amid the coronavirus pandemic -- Lloyd Broughton, 78, evacuated with little warning after a firetruck came up his road north of Vacaville at 3 a.m. Wednesday. Along with his wife, Anne, 73, and daughter Kristine, 35, they gathered their seven rescue cats and packed two cars. “No one is ready for it,” he said of having to leave in the middle of a pandemic. Anita Chabria in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 8/20/20

 

✅The tough questions pushing California to an eviction cliff -- Governor Gavin Newsom doesn’t want it to happen. Neither do powerful leaders in the state Legislature. Tenant groups desperately want to prevent it, and landlord associations say they also want to avoid it so long as they don’t bear an unfair portion of the cost. Matt Levin CalMatters -- 8/20/20

 

✅Obama torches Trump like American democracy depends on it -- Barack Obama went high. On the third night of the Democratic convention — a word that seems increasingly absurd to describe what is really just two hours of nightly programming from the DNC — the former president delivered a memorable speech that balanced torching the sitting president with assuring voters of the possibility of something better. Ryan Lizza Politico -- 8/20/20

 

✅Steve Bannon Is Charged With Fraud in ‘We Build the Wall’ Campaign

Mr. Bannon and three others are accused in a scheme to use funds raised for construction to pay for personal expenses.

NYT

     Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former top adviser, was charged on Thursday in New York with fraud for his role in a scheme related to “We Build the Wall,” an online fund-raising effort that collected more than $25 million for the president’s much-touted plan to erect a barrier on the Mexican border, officials said.

     Mr. Bannon and three other defendants “defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction,” Audrey Strauss, the acting United States attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement Thursday.

     Mr. Bannon was arrested early Thursday in Connecticut by U.S. postal inspectors and brought to Manhattan where he faced charges in a two-count indictment unsealed in federal district court. He was expected to appear before a U.S. magistrate judge in New York later in the day.

✅Trump Must Turn Over Tax Returns to D.A., Judge Rules Again

A federal judge rejected the president’s argument that a subpoena seeking eight years of his tax returns was “wildly overbroad.”

NYT

 

✅Judge rejects Trump’s latest bid to shield his tax records from Manhattan district attorney

     President Trump's lawyers had pushed to kill a grand jury subpoena for his tax records by arguing the district attorney’s order to produce documents was “wildly overbroad” and tantamount to “harassment.”

WashPo

 

✅Growing evidence shines a light on children’s role in virus transmission

     Studies on the subject have been too small to yield definitive answers. But a new paper finding high viral loads and high positivity rates in children joins other studies suggesting that some children may be “silent spreaders.”

WashPo

 

✅Unfunded Pensions Increasing Universities' Risk, Moody's Says

     Unfunded pension liabilities are posing increasing credit risks to public colleges and universities as market interest rates decline and investment returns fall below many pension systems’ assumed levels, a new Moody’s report shows.

     The liabilities will likely lead to greater required pension contributions from colleges and universities. Colleges with the highest pension liabilities are more vulnerable to economic and fiscal disruptions. But those with large amounts of outstanding debt tend to have the financial flexibility necessary to withstand pension challenges, the report states.

Inside Higher Ed

 

✅Colleges’ Sexist Scandal

CHE

     For the past six years, I have taught the literature and culture of the Iberian Peninsula to my students at Stony Brook University, which is part of the State University of New York system. Last year, I was awarded tenure. During my pregnancy, colleagues outside Stony Brook would ask, “When will you start your maternity leave? How long is it?” When I told them that my university — a public research university with famous faculty across the humanities and social sciences — did not have a maternity-leave policy, their jaws dropped. Female colleagues have dealt with this dreadful situation since time immemorial. Some, including in my own department, have taken a semester without pay to care for their newborns. Others have returned to the classroom with a 1-month old baby at home....

8-19: Young people emerge as main virus spreaders

 

✅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

✅Chapman University faces racial reckoning, again, in wake of professor questioning Kamala Harris’ citizenship

Professors and students push back against controversial take from John Eastman, saying his views don't reflect a majority of the university.

OC Reg

Teddy, cat

50 years ago; so cool

WEIRD VID:

 

Anti-Mathur: the "Get the Goo Out" rally, 2005 (Saga, pt 2)

Jan 6, 2008

HERE

 

SOCCCD Marcia Milchiker (plugging the colleges, 50th Anniversary)

Mar 8, 2017

HERE

 

Dr Tod A Burnett, Brandman University (pitchman for “Graduway”)

Jun 29, 2020

HERE

 

Roquemore Tandem Jump (jumps out of plane, lands on head)

Jul 26, 2011

HERE