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How COVID-19 has made some colleges question the academic calendar

By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report

You won’t know it from their mostly empty campuses, but colleges and universities will be bustling this summer. Experts say it’s time to rethink a calendar that dates back to when students had to go home to help on the…

Millions of workers are jobless while in-demand jobs need workers. Can colleges train them?

By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report

Colleges and universities are already being called upon to help Americans learn the skills they’ll need to weather the impending recession.

SAT drops plans for home exam amid internet access concerns

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

Offering the test at home would have required three hours of uninterrupted internet access.

What’s going to happen at colleges this fall? Here are 15 scenarios

By Edward J. Maloney, Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed

Ideas range from getting back to normal to fully remote learning.

Coronavirus fears may lead to big gap year for college students

By Charlotte West, The Hechinger Report

Many students have a simpler reason than travel or work for considering a gap year: They consider it better than spending a semester or even a year taking college classes online.

Unimpressed by online classes, college students seek refunds

By Associated Press

The suits reflect students’ growing frustration with online classes that schools scrambled to create as the coronavirus forced campuses across the nation to close last month.

With virus, U.S. higher education may face an existential moment

The impact of the coronavirus has thrown the U.S. higher education system into a state of turmoil. There are fears it could transform into an existential moment for the time-honored American tradition of high school graduates heading to college, often…

Pass/fail grades may help students during the COVID-19 crisis, but could cost them later

By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report

The already dismal rate at which academic credit transfers from one college to another is likely to be even lower for the many courses this semester graded simply “pass.” Competitive professional or graduate programs may not accept them at all.

Forced off campus by coronavirus, students aren’t won over by online education

By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report

Online education experts say there’s a big difference between classes that were designed to be digital from the beginning and what’s happening now, which they describe as a product more of panic than planning.

Student scientists, athletes and artists miss opportunities when learning moves online

By Meredith Kolodner and Jon Marcus, Caroline Preston, Delece Smith-Barrow, The Hechinger Report

The closing of colleges and universities has disrupted the educations of millions of students. But it’s affecting the lives of many in ways that are not yet widely understood.