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Of colleges with in-person classes and more than 5,000 undergraduates, only 25% are conducting mass screening or random "surveillance" testing of students.
The president of the University of Notre Dame tested positive for COVID-19 after visiting the White House for the Supreme Court nomination ceremony, at which he shook hands and did not wear a mask.
A large sign saying "F--- UVA" on a residence door on the school's Lawn has riled alumni and created a social media debate that led the university’s president, rector and general counsel to defend it as protected political speech.
The successes and the failures of university administrators over the course of the year point to three basic, but essential, lessons college leaders should learn and remember when they face the inevitable crises of the future.
The grant will support projects including the center’s COVID-19 Racial Data Tracker, which is being used to study the virus’ impact on people of color. It will also support a project to track broader data on racial inequities.
While many predicted that students might opt to ride out the pandemic by taking community college courses to save money and stay closer to home, community colleges actually saw the largest dip in enrollment.
Students need advice and services more than ever, but colleges are cutting back.
Inside the University of Arizona's $8-million, 117-day fight to reopen amid a pandemic
The Google IT Apprenticeship Program and other similar apprenticeship programs are designed to help students — particularly non-traditional students — train for new jobs.
Cambridge University is to divest its multibillion-pound endowment fund from fossil fuel corporations after a five-year campaign by students, academics and politicians.
The programs hope to be able to maintain their financial support of already enrolled students, many of whom are being forced to overcome various disruptions to their education, including revamping or delaying their research plans because of the pandemic.
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.
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