Two ideas include using robots for virtual handshakes during live commencements where not everyone can attend and creating a drive-in commencement event to maintain social distancing.
The damage done to students' mental health by the coronavirus outbreak and ensuing college closures has surprised even researchers at a student advocacy organization.
Universities that have refunded less than 100 percent due to COVID-19 closures face the prospect of class actions, say UB guest columnists Hyongsoon Kim, Molly Whitman, Robert Pees and Anthony Pierce of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Some have been filed; more are a certainty. Here's why.
With the demand for virtual campus tours surging as coronavirus closures eliminate in-person visit options, admissions administrators are seeing the importance of offering prospective students a robust online visit experience.
Continuing online classes, suspending large lectures and delaying the semester are among the contingency plans colleges and universities are making, according to published reports.
Research examines higher education facility project activity before and during COVID-19 campus closures. Here's what higher ed leaders need to know and what action can be taken before campuses re-open.
Leaders, faculty and staff at Grand Valley State University and The University of Tennessee are reaching out to check on students' well-being and notify them of campus resources.
The state’s 14 public universities are projected to lose from $70 million to $100 million this spring semester, which a top official conceded will require a “dramatically” accelerated plan for reform, though he balked at the idea of closures.
UB guest columnists Julie Miceli and Anne D. Cartwright address the three-phase U.S. stimulus program and break down how that support will arrive on campus.
