At @FurmanU, the administration is tapping endowment dollars to support students struggling to keep up with their studies remotely and need more financial support than pre-COVID-19, says VP Susan Maddux. #EWAHigherEd

College students are asking why they're being asked to pay the same tuition for a remote learning experience that they paid for face-to-face classes, "and why should I?" says @MassDHE's Carlos Santiago. #EWAHigherEd

At @FurmanU, there were big costs to sending students home early, like contracts for food services, says VP Susan Maddux. "We also had to get our technology up to speed and our faculty up to speed on how to teach remotely." #EWAHigherEd

"We know the institutions that have residential facilities took a big hit in the spring. They had to empty those units but they still have to pay for them," says @MassDHE's Carlos Santiago. Today, most residential colleges in Mass. are only at 30-50 % capacity. #EWAHigherEd

A college's endowment isn't a savings account, says @dougwebberecon: "People reflectively say 'oh schools should dip into their endowment [during economic downturns]. In many cases, they can't.'" #EWAHigherEd

You can't paint fiscal impact of coronavirus pandemic on #highered with a broad brush, warns @dougwebberecon: it's going to vary widely by school size, funding mechanisms, public/private, and dependance on full-freight students. #EWAHigherEd

The @washingtonpost project on shortcomings and challenges for campus health centers required coordination and collaboration, says @jennabelson. In some cases it meant tag-teaming on cultivating sources. #EWAHigherEd

We’re learning how to scrape data without knowing how to code, courtesy of @washingtonpost’s @abtran. #EWAHigherEd

Live now: @apmreports team shares backstory to “Black at Mizzou” documentary. #EWAHigherEd

A a person of color, it's challenging not to get burned out in white-centered spaces like journalism, especially when you're tasked with fixing long-standing inequities in diversity and inclusion, says U-T Austin's @tianarochon. #EWAHigherEd

Student athletes are asking for a seat at the table in discussions on how to safely bring back sports. Washington State U. defensive lineman @Dhobbs92 says colleges are most worried about losing money, and player safety is a lower priority. #EWAHigherEd

Props to #EWAHigherEd speaker @zaytheprophet_ who is joining the conversation from a public space: staying safe, and protecting others.

In some places, the student quarantine units are in the nicest hotels in town, says @ChrisMarsicano. "You trade a room you share with a roommate and a bathroom you share with 20 people for a room at the Ritz." #EWAHigherEd

What campuses are doing a good job supporting quarantined students? @ChrisMarsicano says the standouts are the smaller liberal arts colleges -- both with quarantine and COVID-19 testing. #EWAHigherEd

People are finding new ways to communicate remotely in pandemic and that means new opportunities for @EdWriters journos to find sources, says @DailyTarHeel editor @madelinellis. UNC freshmen created a group chat with over 5K participants. #EWAHigherEd

The #HBCUs have been "incredibly innovative ... with ideas for how to deal with this virus," says @chrismarsiano. "HBCUs are leading the way here and that's a story that needs to be told." - @ChrisMarsicano #EWAHigherEd

Kudos to moderator @jessicabakeman who's keeping this #EWAHigherEd discussion humming along!

Large off-campus student gatherings were factor in UNC's failed reopening this fall but there were institutional factors -- like failure by university to limit housing density on campus -- that also contributed, says @dailytarheel's @madelinellis #EWAHigherEd

Being together can be problematic but so can *not* being together, says @PreetiNMalani. Wear your mask, stay outside, and keep your social/interaction bubble small, says @UMich's chief health officer. #EWAHigherEd

Fun fact: @PreetiNMalani is a former @UMich Wolverine, and staffer at @michigandaily. #EWAHigherEd

"There's a lot of positive reactions and there's a lot of noise ... there are people who thought we never should have been back face to face." @PreetiNMalani, @UMich #EWAHigherEd

Student researchers are College Crisis Initiative are tracking reopening plans and collecting data on COVID-19 impact at #highered campuses nationwide, says @ChrisMarsicano. Journalists are welcome to tap their resources. (Seriously, @EdWriters members: Do. This.) #EWAHigherEd

"Lifting up voice of color doesn't cost money. It requires the will." -@DrShaunHarper

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Three crises are converging on #highered campuses, says @ACEducation's Ted Mitchell. Any college president who talks about the pandemic but not also the national reckoning with racial injustice, as well as the economic crisis, "is fooling himself ... or herself." #EWAHigherEd

Moderator @fernandesglobe doing a great job, per usual. #EWAHigherEd

"I couldn't be prouder* of the young men athletes, and increasingly the young women, who are using their voices to say 'we aren't going to be exploited anymore.'" -
@ACEducation
President Ted Mitchell #EWAHigherEd

*Correcting error in prior tweet

On the lack of details in plans to restart college sports: "Nobody's been thinking about who's going to clean up the stadium after everyone leaves. That's because [those workers] are disproportionately Black." #EWAHigherEd

"Student athletes who are putting their lives on the line right now are overwhelmingly young Black men, and the spectators are overwhelmingly white. I think that's wrong ... despite my love of college football." -@DrShaunHarper #EWAHigherEd

"Money matters," says @ACEducation's Ted Mitchell. To offset pandemic's impact, "All of us need to be working with state legislatures, philanthropic organizations and the federal government" to ensure aid goes to the students and campuses in greatest need. #EWAHigherEd

Not enough attention is being paid to stratification of the #highered workforce, says @DrShaunHarper. Support workers in cleaning, food prep are more likely lower-income, Black and Hispanic. "They're coming to campus and literally putting their lives at risk." #EWAHigherEd