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Sports

Four Conferences With Wisconsin-Based Programs Cancel, Postpone Fall Sports

Four conferences with Wisconsin-based programs have canceled or postponed many fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, or WIAC, has canceled conference seasons and championships in the sports of football, women’s soccer, women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s cross country for the 2020-21 academic year. It has also decided to […]

July 28, 2020

Sports

NSIC Delays Start of Fall Sports Competition

The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference has decided to delay the start of fall athletic competition in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first date of competition is scheduled for Sept. 26 for the sports of football and men’s and women’s cross country. First permissible practice for these sports will be Sept. 2. The first date […]

July 28, 2020

Sports

MAAC Cancels Fall Sports Competitions

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has decided to cancel fall sports competition “due to continuing health and safety concerns surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic.” The conference will decide later about whether these canceled competitions can be held in the spring, it said. The canceled sports include men’s and women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, and men’s and […]

July 28, 2020

Sports

GLVC Postpones Majority of Fall Sports to Spring Semester

The Great Lakes Valley Conference has decided to postpone the majority of the 2020 fall intercollegiate athletics season until the second semester “due to ongoing concerns of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.” The postponement affects football, men’s and women’s soccer, and volleyball, the conference said. The conference further said men’s and women’s cross country will still […]

July 28, 2020

Sports

RMAC Delays Fall Sports to September 18

The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference has delayed fall sports competition to Sept. 18 and restricted play to conference-only in football, volleyball, and women’s and men’s soccer, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference “reviewed current local, state and national COVID-19 guidelines, including the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) guidance and principles and agreed that […]

July 28, 2020

Sports

Little East Conference Suspends Fall Sports

The Little East Conference has decided to suspend conference competition and championships for the fall 2020 semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference said it will explore what opportunities may be available to conduct fall sports regular seasons and championships during the spring 2021 semester “as we continue to monitor the ever-changing local, regional […]

July 28, 2020

African-American

TMCF, UNCF Partner With Testing for America to Help Safely Reopen HBCUs

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) will partner with the nonprofit Testing for America (TFA) to support historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in their COVID-19 testing plans for students, faculty and staff when campuses reopen for the fall. With communities of color disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 […]

July 28, 2020

Sports

HCAC Moves Some High-Contact Fall Sports to Spring

The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference has decided to move to spring some fall events in sports that the NCAA classifies as high contact risk. The NCAA classifies football, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball as high contact risk. A decision on the timing of the fall events in basketball, which is also classified as […]

July 27, 2020

Sports

Presidents’ Athletic Conference to Postpone Many Fall Sports to Spring

The Presidents’ Athletic Conference has decided to postpone the NCAA-defined “high-contact” and “medium contact” sports of football, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, and men’s and women’s cross country until the spring 2021 semester, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference also decided not to hold any winter sport varsity competitions prior to Jan. 1, […]

July 27, 2020

Sports

Big Sky to Delay Most Fall Sports to September 18, No Decision Yet on Football

The Big Sky Conference has decided to delay the first date of competition for its Olympic sports during the fall 2020 season, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. It hasn’t made a decision yet on football. The first date of competition for the traditional fall sports of soccer, volleyball, and men’s and women’s cross country, […]

July 27, 2020

COVID-19

Harris-Stowe State Temporarily Shuts Campus After COVID-19 Outbreak

Harris-Stowe State University temporarily closed its campus last week after eight employees tested positive for COVID-19, reported The St. Louis American. All eight employees who tested positive were located in one building on campus, the Henry Givens Jr. Administration Building. The campus has been closed to all students and non-essential personnel since July 22, and […]

July 27, 2020

COVID-19

Rowan University Reduces Undergraduate Tuition and Fees 10% Amid Pandemic

Rowan University said on Saturday it is reducing tuition and fees for undergraduates by 10% in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tuition and fees for the academic year 2020-2021 have been reduced to $12,938, which will mean an approximate savings of $1,438 for undergraduate students, the university said. Last fall, the university approved a 2.25% […]

July 27, 2020