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.
Colleges and universities are already being called upon to help Americans learn the skills they’ll need to weather the impending recession.
When we last spoke with Jaime Waldron earlier in April, she was a homeless college student worried about completing her online studies before graduation. Now, Waldron has officially graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in criminal justice.
Ideas range from getting back to normal to fully remote learning.
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.
How do you teach welding virtually? As the coronavirus spreads, colleges are trying to figure out that and more on the fly.
As high schools close, seniors are scrambling to sort out financial aid and college decisions without guidance from counselors.
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.
With attention focused on classes being canceled and students being sent home, the coronavirus presents another threat to U.S. universities and colleges: tens of billions of dollars in potential endowment losses.
A roundup of how the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on higher education.
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