While none of the area schools provided a bailout to Becker, they did step up to find homes for key programs, with the biggest move from Clark University in Worcester.
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College of the Holy Cross in Worcester is temporarily canceling in-person activities until at least Wednesday amid what the school said is the worst coronavirus case spike the campus has seen all semester.
The temporary shut-down of in-person activities began at 6 p.m. on Friday, according to an announcement attributed to the school’s COVID-19 response team.
The school will reevaluate its shutdown on Wednesday, but in the meantime, all students are required to undergo testing, unless they are recently recovered from the virus.
“Contact tracing tells us that the vast majority of spread of these cases is coming from outdoor gatherings, with a smaller amount from Easter Break travel,” the school wrote it in its notice. “To be clear, any student gatherings inside or out, on-campus or off will lead to serious consequences. We cannot allow the actions of a few to ruin things for the many.”
In 2005, the College of the Holy Cross became one of the first colleges in the country to make a bold change in its admissions process. The Worcester school no longer required applicants to submit what had long been a central component of preparing for college: standardized tests such as the SAT.
A decade and a half later, Holy Cross is joined by just about every one of its Central Massachusetts peers, and higher education admissions have been transformed.
Colleges generally no longer see the SAT or ACT as necessary for gauging whether a student will be successful at their schools. In fact, many find such tests to only reinforce built-in advantages some students – largely wealthy ones – enjoy before they ever get to college.