Tag: Coronavirus

April 20, 2022

The spread of the coronavirus turbocharged the test-optional and test-free movement, the latter of which refers to colleges that refuse to review assessment scores whatsoever. As the pandemic shuttered the typical sites where students test, colleges adopted these policies, albeit […]

February 22, 2022

Findings have shown the coronavirus pandemic and school shutdowns are disproportionately impacting students of color and lower-income students. However, data comparing how public schools fared versus their private counterparts is much more scarce. The new data released by the department […]

January 10, 2022

Colleges that temporarily shifted instruction online due to the surging Omicron variant of the coronavirus now face the question of when to resume in-person learning. For a growing number of institutions, the answer is not yet. Eight institutions in the […]

October 12, 2021

Colleges found themselves being served with legal papers after the coronavirus shuttered campuses in the spring of 2020 and students and families sued, seeking to have tuition or room and board refunded. But Johson & Wales’ suit falls under another […]

May 11, 2021

President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law in March. It provides about $40 billion in direct aid to colleges and universities. Institutions must use half of that money on emergency grants for students disadvantaged by […]

May 10, 2021

A growing number of colleges in recent weeks have announced plans to require students and even faculty and staff to get vaccinated against the coronavirus in order to be on campus this fall. For institutions looking to resume full in-person […]

April 30, 2021

A little less than half of the students at Fort Lewis College, a public liberal arts school tucked away in mountainous rural Colorado, are Native American. The pandemic has hit this population particularly hard nationwide, which factored into the college’s […]

April 9, 2021

President Joe Biden said during an interview with Univision in February that unauthorized immigrants should be able to get vaccinated against the coronavirus without fearing deportation. Earlier that month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security also said that it would […]

March 19, 2021

Former President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act in late December, making available roughly $23 billion in postsecondary education aid. This followed $14 billion in the first round of higher education relief. Higher ed groups […]

January 29, 2021

This year, the pandemic has taught everyone several lessons. And universities are already using case studies inspired by COVID-19 as training material. With countless coaching opportunities in operations, management, investment, and entrepreneurship, students have the chance to develop their knowledge […]

January 25, 2021

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has mandated that the University of Michigan cease all athletics activity for up to 14 days. Several people linked to the athletics department have tested positive for the B.1.1.7 variant of the […]

January 21, 2021

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ended the year by surpassing a major milestone. The campus completed more than 1 million coronavirus tests during the fall term to the tune of roughly $4 million a month. The university screened students at […]

January 14, 2021

Congress hammered out the overall $900 billion deal in December, roughly nine months after approving the first round of funding. The new money was briefly imperiled when President Donald Trump unexpectedly declined to sign the measure, though he eventually did […]

December 28, 2020

Imagine yourself sitting on a beautiful beach in the Philippines, enjoying a relaxing week off from school when your phone buzzes with messages. Your flight back to China has been cancelled. Your school is closed. You need to be ready […]

December 17, 2020

Higher education hasn’t seen relief funding since March, when President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, giving $14 billion to the sector. Since then, colleges’ budgetary pressures have escalated, with enrollment widely down and […]

December 14, 2020

Pharmaceutical companies hustled to produce a vaccine. Pfizer’s vaccine, which the FDA authorized Friday for emergency use, is already being distributed. College students and faculty won’t generally be among the first to get it, however. Each state has developed a […]

December 11, 2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for coronavirus testing at colleges have been somewhat inconsistent. It initially only advised them to screen for the virus if individuals were symptomatic or if they may have been exposed to the […]

November 30, 2020

The U.S. is inching closer to approving vaccines. Two developers, Moderna and Pfizer, are applying for emergency authorization for their versions from the Food and Drug Administration. Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca are also developing a vaccine. The Trump […]

November 25, 2020

In recent weeks, as novel coronavirus caseloads across the country have surged, school systems are making difficult decisions to stop or limit in-person learning options in an effort to reduce the virus’ spread. In some areas, those transitions are coming […]

November 19, 2020

The abrupt transition to online instruction in the spring threw colleges’ budgets into a tailspin, as most refunded students’ room and board money. As they prepared for the fall, however, officials at several institutions clarified they wouldn’t necessarily return these […]