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Day in Review (July 6–10, 2020)

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Monday, July 6

Top of the Review

Arizona State University Library Acknowledges the 22 Native Nations That Have Inhabited This Land for Centuries
https://asunow.asu.edu/20200702-asu-news-more-words-acknowledging-indigenous-land

International Students May Need to Leave US if Their Universities Transition to Online-only Learning
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/international-college-students-ice-online-learning/index.html

See also: Guidance document from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/bcm2007-01.pdf

LYRASIS Announces 2020 Catalyst Fund Recipients and Their Projects, including Three ARL Members
https://lyrasisnow.org/press-release-lyrasis-announces-the-2020-catalyst-fund-recipients-and-their-projects/

Switzerland’s SONAR Project Launching Institutional Repository as a Service (IRaaS) Soon
https://sonar.ch/post/iraas_service/

 

ARL Member Libraries

Penn State Libraries Reducing Collections Budget for 2020–21 Fiscal Year
https://news.psu.edu/story/624778/2020/07/02/research/penn-state-libraries-reducing-collections-budget-2020-21-fiscal

Yale University: A Librarian for Digital Times (Profile of Barbara Rockenbach)
https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/5142-a-librarian-for-digital-times

 

Libraries—Other

Australian and New Zealand Libraries Commit to Open Infrastructure
https://scoss.org/newscaul2020/

British Library Commits to Becoming an Anti-racist Organization
https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2020/july/british-library-commits-to-becoming-an-anti-racist-organisation

Library Discovery Directions (book chapter by Lorcan Dempsey)
https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2020/resource-discovery-twenty-first-century-library.html

New Educational Website on FAIR Research Data Released
https://www.openaire.eu/blogs/new-educational-website-on-fair-research-data-released-1

Open Content Activities in Libraries: Same Direction, Different Trajectories—Findings from 2018 OCLC Global Council Survey
https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/2020/oclcresearch-open-content-activities-in-libraries.pdf

OpenCitations Index Adds 18 Million Citations
https://opencitations.wordpress.com/2020/07/04/july-2020-updates/

Premier Religious School Donates Quarter of a Million Volumes to Internet Archive’s Open Library
http://blog.archive.org/2020/06/30/premier-religious-school-donates-quarter-of-a-million-volumes-to-internet-archives-open-library/

Knowledge Management in Practice in Academic Libraries (starts on page 25)
https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/hq/publications/ifla-journal/ifla-journal-46-1_2020.pdf

 

Higher Ed—Member Institutions

121 University of Washington Students Infected in Greek Row Outbreak
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/05/887458298/121-university-of-washington-students-infected-in-greek-row-outbreak

Columbia University: College Reverses Course on Tuition Hike for Upcoming Academic Year
https://columbiachronicle.com/breaking-college-reverses-course-on-tuition-hike-for-upcoming-academic-year

From Pandemic to Recession, a “Cacophony of Crises” Threatens Colorado’s Higher Education Institutions
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/07/05/higher-education-budget-cuts-colorado-coronavirus-recession/

Georgia Tech Faculty Fight Back against In-person Classes This Fall
https://www.gpbnews.org/post/not-safe-georgia-tech-faculty-fight-back-against-person-classes-fall

Georgia Tech Won’t Require Students to Wear Masks on Campus—Faculty Aren’t Happy
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/georgia-tech-reopening-no-masks/index.html

Harvard University: Faculty of Arts and Sciences Will Bring up to 40% of Undergraduates to Campus This Fall
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/harvard-to-bring-up-to-40-of-undergrads-to-campus-this-fall/

Intel, NSF Invest $9 Million in Machine Learning for Wireless Networks Projects: One Project from a Joint USC, UC Berkeley Team Takes a Code-centric Approach to Bring Federated Learning to the Wireless Edge
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/intel-nsf-invest-9-million-machine-learning-wireless-networks

Notre Dame, IBM Launch Tech Ethics Lab to Tackle the Ethical Implications of Technology, Funded by a 10-year, $20 million IBM Commitment
https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-ibm-launch-tech-ethics-lab-to-tackle-the-ethical-implications-of-technology/

Ohio University President and Provost Share Details for Fall 2020 Return to Campus during Virtual Town Hall
https://www.ohio.edu/news/2020/07/president-and-provost-share-details-fall-2020-return-campus-during-virtual-town-hall

Penn Graduate School of Education Policy Brief: A Generational Challenge: State Postsecondary Education Policies to Support Economic Recovery and Individual Opportunity
https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/covid-19-higher-education-budgets

USC Reverses Robust Fall Reopening Plans, Asks Students to Stay Home for Online Classes
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-02/usc-will-move-most-undergraduate-classes-online-cancels-reopening

 

Higher Ed—Other

ACE, Higher Education Groups Outline Costs of Reopening Campuses This Fall in Letter to Senate
https://www.Acenet.Edu/news-Room/pages/ace-Higher-Education-Groups-Outline-Costs-of-Reopening-Campuses-This-Fall-in-Letter-to-Senate.aspx

ACE, Other Associations Seek Trump Administration Guidance on International Students
https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/ACE-Other-Associations-Seek-Trump-Administration-Guidance-on-International-Students.aspx

Colleges Face Rising Revolt by Professors
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/coronavirus-college-professors.html

Gender Gaps in STEM College Majors Emerge in High School
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/07/gender-gaps-stem-college-majors-emerge-high-school

Op-Ed: I’m a College Professor—Here Is What I Think about College Preparations for the Coronavirus This Fall
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/06/im-college-professor-here-is-what-i-think-about-college-preparations-covid-19-this-fall/

Reopening the World: Reopening Schools—Insights from Denmark and Finland
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2020/07/06/reopening-the-world-reopening-schools-insights-from-denmark-and-finland/

UK: 13 universities Could Go Bust without Bailout due to Coronavirus
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/universities-go-bust-13-coronavirus-support-a4489896.html

UK: Universities’ Support for Black Lives Matter ‘Tokenistic’
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/universities-support-black-lives-matter-tokenistic

UK: Westminster Government Has Published Guidance, to Help Providers of Higher Education in England, on Reopening HE Buildings and Campuses
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-education-reopening-buildings-and-campuses/higher-education-reopening-buildings-and-campuses

 

Special Webinar

July, 8, 2020, 5:00–6:30 p.m. EDT
From US National Academy of Medicine

Reopening Colleges and Universities during COVID-19: Keeping Students and Communities Healthy
https://www.covid19conversations.org

Note: Panel includes two presidents of ARL member institutions (U of Arizona and U of Miami)

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

http://infoDOCKET.com
@infodocket


Tuesday, July 7

Top of the Review

Georgia Tech Library Creates Black Lives Matter Reading Room
http://library.gatech.edu/news/goergia-tech-library-creates-black-lives-matter-reading-room

UPDATED: New ICE Guidance Bans International Students from Online-only Instruction
https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/New-ICE-Guidance-Bans-International-Students-From-Online-Only-Instruction.aspx

Exclusive: US National Science foundation Reveals First Details on Foreign-influence Investigations
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02051-8

Researchers Use AI to Highlight Zoom’s Privacy Risks
https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/06/researchers-use-ai-to-expose-highlight-zooms-privacy-risks/

Zooming into Video Conferencing Privacy and Security Threats
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.01059.pdf

 

ARL Member Libraries

Arizona State U Libraries Launches Free Data Science Certification Program
https://lib.asu.edu/librarychannel/Get-certified-data-science

Going Virtual: UCSD Library’s 19th Annual Paper Theatre Festival
https://library.ucsd.edu/news-events/events/paper-theatre-festival-2020/

Indiana University Libraries Introduces Government Information Alerts
https://libraries.indiana.edu/introducing-government-info-alerts

Section 512: University and Research Libraries as Rightsholders (blog post by Dave Hansen)
https://www.authorsalliance.org/2020/07/07/section-512-university-and-research-libraries-as-rightsholders/

U of Houston: Pledge to Our Students and Community from the Staff of the William R. Jenkins Architecture, Design, and Art Library
https://libraries.uh.edu/about/news/pledge/

US National Library of Medicine Releases New Promo Video: LitCovid Database
https://youtu.be/ch9x1ZxM_Hw

 

Libraries—Other

Affordable Learning Georgia Reaches 1 Million Downloads of Open Educational Resources
https://www.infodocket.com/2020/07/07/milestones-affordable-learning-georgia-reaches-1-million-downloads-of-open-educational-resources/

Digital Preservation: Slides, Video Recordings, and Other Materials from OPFCON Now Available Online
https://openpreservation.org/news/opfcon-content-now-available-online/

Research Data Canada Endorses TRUST Principles for Trustworthy Digital Data Repositories
https://www.rdc-drc.ca/research-data-canada-endorses-trust-principles-for-trustworthy-digital-data-repositories/

Society of American Archivists Council Approves FY 2021 Budget
https://www2.archivists.org/news/2020/council-approves-fy21-budget

 

Higher Ed—Member Institutions

Brown University Will Have Trimester Schedule as Part of Reopening Plan
https://pbn.com/brown-university-will-have-trimester-schedule-as-part-of-reopening-plan/

Brown’s Academic Protocols for 2020-21
https://healthy.brown.edu/academics

Cornell Maintains Tuition Increase for Upcoming School Year
https://cornellsun.com/2020/07/06/cornell-maintains-tuition-increase-for-upcoming-school-year/

Georgia Tech: University Will Now Require Masks
https://twitter.com/GeorgiaTech/status/1280290225357553666

MIT Announces Plans for Fall 2020 Semester
http://news.mit.edu/2020/plans-fall-2020-semester-0707

Rutgers University Announces Fall 2020 Plans
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-university-announces-fall-2020-plans

U of Houston: Petition to Lower Tuition for Remote Learning at UH Gains Traction
http://thedailycougar.com/2020/07/06/petition-lower-tuition-uh/

U of Louisville to Raise Tuition by 2 Percent for 2020–2021
https://www.louisvillecardinal.com/2020/07/u-of-l-to-raise-tuition-by-2-for-the-coming-academic-year/

U of Washington President Discusses COVID-19 at University on CNN (text transcript)
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/06/ebo.01.html

 

Higher Ed—Other

CNN Op-Ed: Trump Administration’s Planned Purge of International Students Serves a Cruel Purpose
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/opinions/ice-online-learning-college-international-students-filipovic/index.html

Oxford Faces Pressure to Change as Universities Confront Racism
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-07/oxford-faces-new-pressure-over-statue-as-colleges-confront-racism

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

http://infoDOCKET.com
@infodocket


Wednesday, July 8

Top of the Review

Primary Documents in the Harvard/MIT v. US DHS/ICE Lawsuit

Complaint
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.223165/gov.uscourts.mad.223165.1.0.pdf

Memorandum of law
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.223165/gov.uscourts.mad.223165.5.0.pdf

Court docket
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17330104/president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college-v-united-states-department-of/

Map: International Student Enrollment Is in Jeopardy—These Are the States That Would Be Affected Most
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/map-trump-international-student-rule-effects-state-n1233219

New IPEDS Data on Postsecondary Tuition, Fees, and Degrees
https://www.infodocket.com/2020/07/08/higher-education-new-report-releases-ipeds-data-on-postsecondary-tuition-fees-and-degrees/

 

ARL Member Libraries

Georgia Tech Library Creates Black Lives Matter Reading Room
http://library.gatech.edu/news/goergia-tech-library-creates-black-lives-matter-reading-room

Library of Congress: Historic Public Affairs Series Black Journal Now Available Online from American Archive of Public Broadcasting
https://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/historic-public-affairs-series-black-journal-now-available-online-at-the-american-archive-of-public-broadcasting/

Library of Congress: LC Labs Testing Speech-to-Text Viewer
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2020/07/lc-labs-letter-june-2020/

LSU Libraries Receives Student-Technology Fee Grant to Implement SCALE-UP Space
http://news.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2020/07/08/lsu-libraries-receives-student-technology-fee-grant-to-implement-scale-up-space/

UCSB: Library to Vacate Off-site Storage Facility
https://www.library.ucsb.edu/news/library-vacate-site-storage-facility

 

Libraries—Other

10,000 Books on OpenEdition Books
https://oep.hypotheses.org/2555

JISC Signs OA Agreement with MDPI
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/jisc-secures-agreement-with-open-access-publisher-to-reduce-costs-08-jul-2020

NISO’s Manuscript Exchange Common Approach Recommendations Now Published
https://niso.org/press-releases/2020/07/nisos-manuscript-exchange-common-approach-recommendations-now-published

 

Higher Ed—Member Institutions

UConn: Letter from President Katsouleas to UConn Faculty and Staff Regarding Budget
https://today.uconn.edu/2020/07/letter-president-katsouleas-uconn-faculty-staff-regarding-budget/

University of California Welcomes Next President: Michael V. Drake, MD
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-announces-next-president

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

America’s Science Policy and Science Diplomacy after COVID-19
https://www.sciencediplomacy.org/editorial/2020/americas-science-policy-and-science-diplomacy-after-covid-19

Analysis from Federal Reserve of New York: Do College Tuition Subsidies Boost Spending and Reduce Debt? Impacts by Income and Race
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2020/07/do-college-tuition-subsidies-boost-spending-and-reduce-debt-impacts-by-income-and-race.html

Facebook Releases Civil Rights Audit

Full-text report
https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Civil-Rights-Audit-Final-Report.pdf

Blog post by COO
https://about.fb.com/news/2020/07/civil-rights-audit-report/

Pride and Protest: Free Expression and LGBTQIA+ Student Activism in 2020 (PEN America webinar recording)
https://youtu.be/ewyVbOnk5BA

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Recommendations for Services in a FAIR Data Ecosystem
https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(20)30069-6

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

http://infoDOCKET.com
@infodocket


Thursday, July 9

Top of the Review

Interview with Dana Canedy (New Publisher at Simon & Schuster) on the Responsibilities of Book Publishers
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/dana-canedy-on-the-responsibilities-of-book-publishers

Public Communication by Research Institutes Compared across Countries and Sciences: Building Capacity for Engagement or Competing for Visibility?
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0235191

 

ARL Member Libraries

Penn: Re-Covering the Ney Collection: An Online Exhibit
https://www.library.upenn.edu/blogs/libraries-news/re-covering-ney-collection-online-exhibit

Rutgers: New Digital Collection: Dorothy Gillespie Papers
https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/news/new-digital-collection-dorothy-gillespie-papers

U Chicago Expands Online Library Access, Book Readings to Students and Families
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-expands-online-library-access-book-readings-students-and-families

U Conn Library, School of Engineering to Expand Handwritten Text Recognition
https://today.uconn.edu/2020/07/uconn-library-school-engineering-expand-handwritten-text-recognition/

University of Pittsburgh Library System Chooses Preservica for Its Digital Preservation and Access Needs
https://preservica.com/resources/press-releases/university-of-pittsburgh-library-system-chooses-preservica-for-its-digital-preservation-and-access-needs

US National Archives: Pandemic Telework Project Sparks Increase in Black History Records Accessibility
https://www.archives.gov/news/telework-black-history

 

Libraries—Other

NISO Plus 2020 Outputs and Next Steps
https://nisoplus.figshare.com/articles/NISO_Plus_2020_Outputs_and_Next_Steps/12622193/1

Op-Ed: “Could This Be the Start of a New Era in Scholarly Communication?” by Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director, F1000
https://blog.f1000.com/2020/07/09/could-this-be-the-start-of-a-new-era-in-scholarly-communication/

Open Library: A Tool for Student Equity during our Digital Fall Semester
http://blog.archive.org/2020/07/09/open-library-a-tool-for-student-equity-during-our-digital-fall-smester/

Realm Project Update: Test Set 3 Announced
https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/realm-happening-now.html

Shakespeare’s Only Surviving Playscript Now Online from the British Library
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/index.html

UK University Libraries Supporting Transnational Education (TNE) Partnerships
https://insights.uksg.org/article/10.1629/uksg.517

 

Higher Ed—Member Institutions

Emory: Georgia Coast Atlas: A Portal to Hidden Stories
https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/07/georgia-coast-atlas/index.html

Johns Hopkins Launches Reopening Policy Tracker for K–12 Schools
https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/07/09/reopening-schools-policy-tracker/

 

Higher Ed—Other

AGB, ISA, AIG to Issue Guidance on Cyber-Risk Oversight for Board Members of Higher Education Institutions and Foundations as Virtual Learning Expands in Wake of COVID-19
https://agb.org/news/press-releases/agb-isa-and-aig-to-issue-guidance-on-cyber-risk-oversight-for-board-members-of-higher-education-institutions-and-foundations-as-virtual-learning-expands-in-wake-of-covid-19/

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley, California State University Chancellor Timothy White Announce the State Is Filing a Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Policy That Threatens to Exacerbate COVID-19 and Exile Hundreds of Thousands of International Students Studying in US
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-state-public-education-leaders-sue-trump-administration

Louisiana: Governor Edwards Releases $50 Million in CARES Act Funding for K–12 Schools, Higher Education
https://gov.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/2583

Texas: Governor Abbott Allocates Emergency Education Relief Funding for Texas Higher Education
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-allocates-emergency-education-relief-funding-for-texas-higher-education

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

ACM: US Technology Policy Committee Urges US Supreme Court to Narrowly Interpret Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)
https://www.acm.org/media-center/2020/july/ustpc-urges-narrower-definition-of-computer-fraud-abuse-act

GAO Report: DATA Act: OIGs Reported That Quality of Agency-Submitted Data Varied, and Most Recommended Improvements
https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/708011.pdf

In Echo of Mao Era, China’s Schools in Book-Cleansing Drive
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-books-insight/in-echo-of-mao-era-chinas-schools-in-book-cleansing-drive-idUSKBN24A1R5

International Probe Launched into Facial Recognition Firm That Scrapes Images from Internet
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/09/australia-uk-launch-joint-probe-into-clearview-ais-data-scraping.html

Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Susan Collins (R-ME) Introduce Bill to Increase Funding for Library Broadband Hotspots in Rural America (HOTSPOTS)
https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-collins-bill-to-increase-funding-for-library-broadband-hotspots-in-rural-america

US House Hearing: Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee, Education and Labor Committee: A Major Test: Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on the Future of Higher Education (video recording, prepared statements)
https://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/a-major-test_examining-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-the-future-of-higher-education-

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Human Rights, Racial Equality, and Emerging Digital Technologies: Mapping the Structural Threats
https://law.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Publications/Promise_Institute/Human%20Rights,%20Racial%20Equality,%20&%20New%20IT%20Report%203.pdf

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Australia: University Barred from Appealing ‘Publish Or Perish’ Ruling
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-barred-appealing-publish-or-perish-ruling

7 Things You Should Know about the HyFlex Course Model
https://library.educause.edu/resources/2020/7/7-things-you-should-know-about-the-hyflex-course-model

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian

http://infoDOCKET.com
@infodocket


Friday, July 10

Top of the Review

Monitoring the Effects of Plan S on Research and Scholarly Communication: An Update
https://www.coalition-s.org/monitoring-the-effects-of-plan-s-on-research-and-scholarly-communication-update/

National Library of Medicine Releases New Welcome Video
https://youtu.be/GQigLJ6iV4Y

ARL Member Libraries

Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Releases “Digital Gaming Communities Web Archive”
https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/spotlights/2020/07/10/digital-gaming-communities-web-archive/

Penn State University: Conservation Centre Celebrates Summer Solstice by Swapping Book Art Creations
https://news.psu.edu/story/625381/2020/07/09/arts-and-entertainment/conservation-centre-celebrates-summer-solstice

UCLA: Announcing the UCLA Public Art Collection: New Content in Artstor!
https://www.library.ucla.edu/blog-name/arts-library/2020/07/09/announcing-the-ucla-public-art-collection-new-content-in-artstor

University of Iowa: Libraries Preserving Images of Spray-Painting From Black Lives Matter Protests
https://now.uiowa.edu/2020/07/libraries-preserving-images-graffiti-black-lives-matter-protests

University of Kansas: KU Libraries Announce Changes for Spahr Engineering Library
https://lib.ku.edu/news/spahr

Washington University in St. Louis: University Libraries Partner with Sam Fox School on New MFA Program
https://library.wustl.edu/university-libraries-partner-with-sam-fox-school-on-new-mfa-program/

Libraries—Other

DOAJ Introduces Editorial Subcommittee
https://blog.doaj.org/2020/07/10/introducing-the-editorial-sub-committee/

Internet Archive Responds to Letter from US Senator Thom Tillis: Preparing for Our Digital Fall Semester
https://blog.archive.org/2020/07/10/preparing-for-our-digital-fall-semester/

New CORE Repository Dashboard Released
https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2020/07/10/release-of-the-new-core-repository-dashboard/

This Tool Is Saving Universities Millions of Dollars in Journal Subscriptions
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/tool-saving-universities-millions-dollars-journal-subscriptions

Higher Ed—Member Institutions

Boston University: In College Students, COVID-19 Has Increased Depression Rate and Raised New Barriers to Mental Healthcare
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/college-students-covid-19-increased-depression-rate-and-raised-barriers-to-mental-healthcare/

Direct to Full Text of Study Cited in Article
https://healthymindsnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Healthy-Minds_NCHA_COVID-19-Report.pdf

Emory University: Georgia Coast Atlas: A Portal to Hidden Stories
https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/07/georgia-coast-atlas/index.html

Howard University Supports Digitization Project: Preserving the Legacy of History of Black Dance in America
https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/article/12651/howard-university-supports-dig

Iowa State University: Personal Laptop or Other Mobile Device Added as Requirement for Fall 2020 Semester
https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/iowa-state-university-covid-19-wendy-wintersteen-jonathan-wickert/article_f49edef0-c2c0-11ea-88c4-278945bbae2f.html

UC Berkeley Faculty, Researchers Use Wikipedia to Educate Students
https://www.dailycal.org/2020/07/09/uc-berkeley-faculty-researchers-use-wikipedia-to-educate-students/

University of California Intends to File Suit re: International Students
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-poised-sue-federal-government-over-new-visa-policy-international-students

NOTE: The State of California (as noted yesterday) has also filed a lawsuit.
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-state-public-education-leaders-sue-trump-administration

Higher Ed—Other

Statement by AGB President and CEO Henry Stoever on ICE Temporary Rule on International Students
https://agb.org/news/press-releases/statement-by-agb-president-and-ceo-henry-stoever-on-ice-temporary-rule-on-international-students/

European Universities Initiative: 24 New Alliances Selected
https://www.eua.eu/resources/news/535-european-universities-initiative-24-new-alliances-selected.html

Widespread Attacks on Education Worldwide: More Than 11,000 Attacks in Past 5 Years
https://protectingeducation.org/news/widespread-attacks-on-education-worldwide-more-than-11000-attacks-in-past-5-years/

Summary/Map: http://eua2020.protectingeducation.org/#introduction

Full Text Report (PDF): https://protectingeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/eua_2020_full.pdf

 

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