The school said it considers many dimensions in screening applicants to the flagship campus, including different life experiences and economic circumstances.

With COVID still lingering, leaders will be pressed to forge ahead on new initiatives and new ways of increasing student success.

Several major universities, from Rhode Island to Washington, are making the switch to remote learning to start 2022.

When he returned to teaching in-person this semester, Vinod Menon, a physics professor at City College of New York in Harlem, discovered a big—and pleasant—surprise.