Last fall, when Breanna Brown wanted to talk to her fellow students about voting, the then-freshman at Wayne State University would walk into a lecture hall (with the professor’s permission) and extol the virtues of civic participation before class started. In between classes, she and other organizers would “table” in […]
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School campuses in affluent areas plan to open quicker than those in poor Latino ones
Principal Ryan Stanley, left, welcomes second-grader Maeva Chappaz, with her mother, Amelie Chappaz, upon arrival for her first day of in-class instruction at Ocean Air School in the Del Mar Union School District. ( Bill Wechter / San Diego Union-Tribune) The Capistrano Unified School District is ready to go, preparing […]
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College campuses face explosion of COVID-19 cases
The exploding number of new COVID-19 cases on campuses across the country has left many colleges and universities grappling with the same vexing question: How do you get students to cooperate with new safety measures? While many students appear to be following social distancing guidelines, all too many are breaking […]
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‘I can’t teach when I’m dead.’ Professors fear COVID-19 as college campuses open
Students’ return for fall semester was staggered over 10 days at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, to enforce social distancing during as they settled in. (Gerry Broome / Associated Press) When masked students walk back into his Northern Arizona University lab room at the end of the month, Tad […]