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 […]
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Universities that reject ‘business as usual’ have best chance of surviving COVID-19
Businesses — whether large or small, or whether they are healthcare, educational cultural or recreational institutions — all have been tragically affected by COVID-19. For colleges and universities, the beginning of the fall semester will be especially challenging. Even prior to the onset of the coronavirus, many universities and colleges […]
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Should students get a discount if they won’t be on campus because of COVID-19?
COVID-19 has caused colleges to spend more to cope with the pandemic. elenaleonova/GettyImages Not long after the COVID-19 pandemic caused colleges to start teaching remotely, students balked at the idea of paying full tuition for online learning. It’s not hard to understand why. After all, they were not getting the […]
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I Did My Own Abortion Because Texas Used COVID-19 as an Excuse to Shut Down Abortion Clinics
Photo credit: Raydene Hansen – Hearst Owned From Cosmopolitan Shortly after Esmarie* learned she was pregnant in mid-March, the city in South Central Texas where she lives started to shut down in response to the coronavirus. Her college classes went online and she lost shifts at the two restaurants where […]
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Colleges are increasingly going online for fall 2020 semester as COVID-19 cases rise
Call it coronavirus déjà vu. After planning ways to reopen campuses this fall, colleges are increasingly changing their minds, dramatically increasing online offerings or canceling in-person classes outright. This sudden shift will be familiar to students whose spring plans were interrupted by the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Now, COVID-19 […]