As colleges continue to cancel events due to the coronavirus outbreak, Stony Brook University School of Medicine used a video conferencing platform so fourth-year medical students could participate in the nationally recognized Match Day celebration.
Add grading to the aspects of college upended by the coronavirus, with a handful of institutions shifting to pass/fail or satisfactory/unsatisfactory models for the disrupted spring semester.
COVID-19 compels higher education to tell students to head home for spring break and engage in distance learning for an extended and unknown length of time.
Coronavirus has pushed more than 130 colleges online and the number is growing quickly, ushering in an online education era that came sooner than many expected. Conference cancellations also begin to mount.
Protests targeting the use of facial recognition surveillance to bolster campus safety have been mounted by college students and faculty in recent days.
Study abroad programs are suspended in China, Italy, South Korea and elsewhere as coronavirus spreads and college and university officials prepare for more cases in the U.S.
