Aug 12 WATCH: Why this university scaled back its reopening plan By Dan Sagalyn Once UMass Amherst “started looking at all the logistics of how this would work,” chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy said, they realized it was going to be too risky and difficult if all the students who were expected to come showed up. Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch 6:10 College towns weigh benefits of students’ return with virus risks By John Yang As the new academic year gets underway, college students, parents, administrators and faculty are deliberating over whether it will be safe to hold in-person classes and resume dorm life. And residents of the surrounding towns and cities worry about the… Continue watching
Aug 04 Watch 7:43 This college lowered tuition due to the pandemic — and plans not to raise it again By Hari Sreenivasan, Cat Wise U.S. colleges have struggled with how to conduct the upcoming academic year amid the coronavirus pandemic. With many schools deciding to offer only remote classes but still charging full tuition, the pandemic has added a new urgency to questions about… Continue watching
Jul 13 More than 200 schools back lawsuit over foreign student rule By Collin Binkley, Associated Press More than 200 universities are backing a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy saying international students cannot stay in the country if they take all their classes online in the fall. Continue reading
Jul 08 Harvard, MIT sue to block ICE rule on international students By Associated Press The universities contend that the directive violates the Administrative Procedures Act because officials failed to offer a reasonable basis justifying the policy and because the public was not given notice to comment on it. Continue reading
Jul 07 WATCH: College officials testify on future of higher education amid COVID-19 By Courtney Vinopal The Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee will hold a hearing July 7 on COVID-19's impact on the future of higher education. Continue reading
Jul 07 International students must leave U.S. if classes go online By Collin Binkley, Associated Press International students will be forced to leave the U.S. or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall. Continue reading
Jul 06 Amid pandemic, fewer students seek federal aid for college By Associated Press It’s raising alarms among education officials who say thousands of students may be opting to delay or forgo college, with potentially dire consequences for their job prospects and future earnings. Continue reading
Jun 11 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. Continue reading
May 20 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. Continue reading