Dancing at the End of the World Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE APR 4, 2020 8:00 AM

This crisis has provoked some interesting reactions.

• Students Request Refunds, NYU Tisch School of the Arts Dean Responds With Dance Video

No wonder people want refunds.

• Arizona Board of Regents Faces Lawsuit for Not Providing Refunds After Campus Closures
• U. Minnesota Students Claim School is Shortchanging Them on Room and Board Refunds

Expect more of this.

• Notre Dame de Namur University in California Struggling to Avoid Closure
• MacMurray College in Illinois Closing at the End of May
• Poll Finds 1 in 6 Have Changed Plans for Full-Time College Over Coronavirus

Standards are already changing.

• Student Government at Harvard Votes to Give Everyone Perfect Grades this Semester
• Harvard Adopting Universal Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory Grading System for Spring 2020
• University of California Easing Admissions Requirements for Next Two Years

Focusing on the important things.

• U. Texas Dean Condemns Use of the Term ‘Chinese Virus’
• FIRE Says U. California System Cannot Ban Use of the Term ‘Chinese Virus’

Never let a crisis go to waste.

• UVA Students Issue List of Coronavirus-Related Demands to Administration

Compare and contrast.

• Yale Comes Under Fire From New Haven Residents for Not Doing Enough to Help in Crisis
• Suffolk University Transforms Dorm Into Housing for the Homeless During Coronavirus Crisis

Tough love.

• Parents Turn Son Away From Their Home When He Returns From Spring Break

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