Daniel Payne – The College Fix

Report: University of California will not be ‘fully’ open in the fall

Daniel Payne — Fri, 08 May 2020 13:01:45 +0000

Chancellor says ‘widespread testing’ and ‘isolation capability’ key factors The University of California will not be “fully” re-opened this fall, according to a report in The California Aggie, with the system chancellor stating that the school will be basing its decisions on pandemic mitigation efforts such as tracking down people who may have the disease and quarantining them.

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Following new law, university moves toward stripping abortion coverage from student insurance

Daniel Payne — Fri, 08 May 2020 04:05:52 +0000

The law was passed following a College Fix report A public university in Wyoming is moving to strip abortion coverage from its student health insurance plan, following a law ordering the university to do so that was passed after a College Fix report revealed the controversial insurance feature. The Fix reported in 2018 that the University of Wyoming “automatically enrolls its international…

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The importance of good journalism

Daniel Payne — Fri, 08 May 2020 04:04:56 +0000

It’s absolutely necessary in a functioning free society At few times in American history has good journalism ever been more critical than it is now. The country is currently undergoing the most extraordinary economic and political experiment in its history: At no time since our nation’s founding have our governments ever enacted such monumental, far-reaching, profoundly disruptive policies…

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U.C. London study: Coronavirus epidemic could have begun in early October

Daniel Payne — Thu, 07 May 2020 11:25:54 +0000

That pushes the start date back well over a month Scientists at University College London argued this week that the coronavirus epidemic could have begun as early as October of 2019, pushing the start date of the outbreak back by over a month and suggesting that the disease has been circulating throughout the global population for significantly longer than earlier findings.

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Report: Harvard students not likely to return at beginning of fall, says school president

Daniel Payne — Wed, 06 May 2020 13:51:33 +0000

‘We are unlikely to see things return to normal…by September’ The president of Harvard University told faculty this week that students are not likely to return at the start of the fall semester, suggesting that the school may go through several re-opening phases before campus returns to a semblance of pre-pandemic normality. Though school officials are “just working nonstop” to consider…

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The lockdown narrative may shift as more colleges make major cuts

Daniel Payne — Wed, 06 May 2020 04:02:59 +0000

A new wave of job losses could be on the horizon Nearly 30 million American workers have lost their jobs over the past month or so as countless businesses have laid off and furloughed workers in an effort to stem their hemorrhaging finances. Reduced economic activity during a pandemic was surely inevitable, but it seems doubtless that millions upon millions of these job losses were due to the…

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Watchdog group files Freedom of Information request for Biden records at U. Delaware

Daniel Payne — Tue, 05 May 2020 15:04:21 +0000

They want to search the documents ‘for any reference to Tara Reade’ A watchdog group has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the University of Delaware, seeking access to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s Senate records there, hoping to learn if the documents have any reference to Biden’s sexual assault accuser Tara Reade. The National Legal and Policy Center filed the…

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Pitt medical doctor: COVID-19’s death rate ‘much lower’ than earlier estimates

Daniel Payne — Fri, 01 May 2020 14:07:08 +0000

Data indicate it could be roughly comparable to seasonal influenza A doctor with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is arguing that the actual death rate of COVID-19 is “much lower” than earlier estimates—and he says his hospital will now begin performing more routine procedures as an anticipated wave of critical coronavirus patients fails to materialize. Donald Yealy…

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Hey school districts: Looking for books to ban? Consider these ones

Daniel Payne — Fri, 01 May 2020 04:05:27 +0000

Let no offensive thought go uncensored A school district in Alaska recently elected to ban several books from its curricula due to their purportedly offensive content. Among the censored titles: “The Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou. The books reportedly contained language and themes too offensive for students to study in the classroom.

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Georgia state reps will push for university system to implement pass-fail grading system

Daniel Payne — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:04:00 +0000

‘We’re going to do everything that we can in our power to have this conversation’ State representatives in Georgia vowed on Tuesday to pressure public university officials to implement a system-wide pass-fail grading system this semester after multiple students demanded the concession as a response to the coronavirus pandemic. The University of Georgia campus newspaper The Red &

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