Your weekly report on campus news....
“We estimate our short-term revenue losses to be in excess of $20 million and the long-term ramifications are much greater but impossible to quantify at this time”...
"When I left the United States Senate, I became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania"...
"It is distressing to hear racist and xenophobic language being used in national discourse about the COVID-19 pandemic"...
"group didn’t seem to mind that the school wasn’t currently in use"...
“free housing and meals to all homeless persons”...
"allege that they were never informed of their right to refuse to allow union dues to be taken from their paychecks when they were hired"...
"disruptions caused by Covid-19 have resulted in significant additional expenses for our university"...
"We will be taking the time we need to rest and recuperate during a two-week isolation at home."...
“Equity and Inclusion during COVID-19”...
"As a publicly funded institution, we must respond to the needs of our state as it undergoes a major health crisis."...
"grading as we know it is already over for the semester"...
"great news for students on campus, and we are glad that our work pressured administration to change their decision"...
"DeVos has directed federal lenders to allow borrowers to suspend their student loans and loan payments without penalty for at least the next 60 days"...
"did not disclose the names of the students, nor where they travelled during the break"...
"If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR [virus] tests, the number of total deaths due to ‘influenza-like illness’ would not seem unusual this year."...
"The makeshift ventilator was made from $150 in parts, with a motor ripped from another device and a red metal toolbox tray as its base."...
"it is difficult to imagine how we could safely hold such a large gathering this spring"...
