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The number of students enrolled in colleges throughout Virginia has declined 1.3% this year, which amounts to a large sigh of relief for university and state leaders, who feared a drop of as much as 20% because of the coronavirus pandemic.
3 critical elements can make online learning succeed or fail.
"We write to request that any supplemental funding bill include at least $120 billion for higher education in order to partially mitigate the challenges that students and institutions are facing.”
Schools finding success are deploying methods health experts have recommended for months for the whole country to keep the virus under control.
At UC Berkeley, Lynn Huntsinger—who teaches ecology in addition to her role as a dean—is sending her students a lab kit with specimens, seeds, jars, and all the equipment they need for a soil lab.
Dr. Douglas Masterson said he was inspired to create the course when he realized how much misinformation and misunderstanding there was among the public about the novel coronavirus and pandemics in general.
The best way to generate a substantial improvement in the university’s overall performance that does not take years is through organization redesign.
A bicoastal experiment in administering collaborative two-stage exams via Zoom shows promise.
The continued random testing of asymptomatic students will provide information for universities to make decisions about when they need to do further testing or take other precautions.
Zoom has canceled a webinar due to be held at San Francisco State University (SFSU) featuring Leila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who took part in two plane hijackings in 1969 and 1970.
Boulder County Public Health issued an order that prohibits gatherings of people ages 18 to 22 and puts in place a stay-at-home mandate for anyone living at 36 properties near the University of Colorado Boulder campus.
Western Michigan University announced a new initiative designed to brainstorm ways of dismantling systemic racism on campus.
Universities redoubled their efforts to recruit students from overseas, and may have been helped by negative sentiment towards the US, where the virus remains unchecked in parts of the country.
Auditors found that UC Berkeley admitted 42 applicants because of their connections to donors and university staff, including one example where a regent violated university policy by improperly advocating for a student.
The layoffs were part of a plan to eliminate about $65 million from the university’s $325 million budget.
More than 100 colleges in the Northeast have partnered with the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard to test their students and staff.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is announcing a new plan to refinance debt related to construction on college campuses, a move he said will save public colleges $300 million over the next two years.
A University of Georgia fraternity self-suspended its operations after racist messages from a chapter group messaging app were posted to Twitter.
Deborah Shaffer is widely considered to be at the forefront of restructuring the university’s finances in the face of fiscal troubles and who has played a central role in authorizing university layoffs.
Students had attended in-person and hybrid classes for less than a week before officials asked students to return home and transition to online learning.
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