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.
Coronavirus is canceling college graduation and commencement ceremonies one after another, as leaders seek alternative ways to recognize students' achievements.
UB guest columnist Karen Gross considers the implications of closing campus and/or turning to online learning, and offers 10 concrete suggestions for higher ed leaders to help students cope. She is the former president of Southern Vermont College.
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.
With summer approaching, UB guest columnists Catherine Guttman-McCabe and Isaac Mamaysky of Potomac Law Group provide a checklist for the three major risk categories.
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.
