Medical doctors, faculty researchers and students will share a new, jointly funded facility at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. The center's evolution can be a model for others in the COVID-era and beyond.
Colleges should take the opportunity presented by the pandemic to reformat aging lecture halls into next-generation active learning environments, making them more engaging, providing better retention of subject matter and adding greater flexibility for future changes in technology.
At the University of Rochester in New York, students can use the Grubhub app to place meal orders from dining halls and pick up groceries from the campus food market.
The University of New Haven required all students to get coronavirus tests before returning to campus. Complicating these efforts was Connecticut's travel restrictions for people traveling from states with high rates of transmission.
Students, staff and faculty at the University Central Florida will assess themselves for COVID symptoms with a new self-checker built into the school’s UCF Mobile app.
The key to completing the fall semester at the University of New Haven—and at colleges across the nation—will be holding community COVID infections down.
College libraries, already a key provider of digital literacy and wellness, are finding new ways to offer guidance to students as online learning continues into the fall on most campuses.
