Tag: Cancellation

Students

As Lawmakers and the Biden Administration Debate Student Loan Relief, Borrowers Continue to Struggle

The Student Debt Crisis’ #CancelStudentDebt campaign urges a far-reaching initiative that involves broad debt erasure but, as much as that, free college for everyone who wants to enroll and an examination of college costs.

May 25, 2021

Sports

Ivy League Becomes First D-I Conference to Suspend All Sports Until 2021

The Ivy League on Wednesday suspended all sports until 2021, including fall football, in response to health risks posed by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first Division I conference to do so, reports the Associated Press. “We simply do not believe we can create and maintain an environment for intercollegiate athletic competition that […]

July 9, 2020

COVID-19

Howard Cancels Its Homecoming Citing COVID-19 Concerns

Howard University’s Howard Homecoming — an historic and annual event which typically attracts tens of thousands of people to the institution — has been cancelled for 2020, reports ABC 7 WJLA news. Due to the large crowds Howard Homecoming draws, the event would be too difficult to conduct safely in the age of COVID-19, said […]

July 6, 2020

Sports

Morehouse College Cancels Fall Sports Amid COVID-19 Concerns

The historically Black Morehouse College has cancelled its fall football and cross country seasons in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, in light of an expected second wave of COIVD-19 predicted to begin in September. In a letter announcing the decision Friday, Dr. David A. Thomas, Morehouse’s president, cited the inability to social distance during […]

June 26, 2020