The names of everyone applying to be a university or state college president in Florida will no longer be public under legislation making its way through the Legislature.
James Morton, the board’s vice chair and the president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston, encouraged the department to work with community-based youth organizations on the issue.
"Canceling competitions is never something we want to do, but with so many unknowns about this variant of COVID-19, we must do everything we can to minimize the spread among student-athletes, coaches, staff, and to the student-athletes at other schools."
To ensure instructors show up to class regardless of their concerns or pending ADA requests, the school has updated its safety app, GatorSAFE, to include an option that lets students report an instructor for missing class.
"The agency failed to demonstrate that it has competent and knowledgeable individuals," the report read, "qualified by education and experience in their own right and trained by the agency on their responsibilities, as appropriate for their roles, regarding the agency's standards, policies, and procedures."
"California's universities are playing national leadership roles in weakening the SAT/ACT in college admissions," said Ray Rosner, executive director of the Princeton Review Foundation, a nonprofit advocate for fair testing.
On Jan. 13, Apple and Atlanta-based Southern Co. (NYSE:SO) announced they would each invest $25 million to build the Propel Center, a technology and innovation hub for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The Regents passed a controversial measure that would temporarily grant universities the option to implement policies bypassing regular policies on faculty and employee suspensions, terminations, and dismissals to address financial shortfalls.
Looking ahead to 2021-2022 tuition rates, families can expect much of the same as colleges may take a similar approach by freezing tuition or applying only small increases.
The University of Minnesota will not accept new students into many of its liberal arts doctoral degree programs this fall, pausing admissions to save money during the pandemic and to focus on supporting current students.
Many factors are behind the plummeting enrollment at two-year schools. The prospect of in-class learning raises the specter of Covid-19 infection. Remote instruction has worn out its welcome for many. And community colleges tend to attract those whose precarious finances have been hurt most by the pandemic.
