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Amid surge in distance education, states must play a stronger role in quality assurance, write Lori Williams and Rob Anderson.

By Lori Williams and Robert Anderson

Several more college conferences announce they won't play games this fall. Rhodes, Dickinson and Occidental Colleges reverse earlier decisions to bring some students back to campus.

As Congress mulls another coronavirus relief package, higher education lobbyists worry any aid will be focused on reopening and ignore billions in financial losses by colleges.

The decision to abandon a directive that would have prevented international students from taking all their coursework online came in response to a lawsuit from Harvard and MIT.

Colleges are implementing social contracts or making addenda to code of conduct policies requiring students to abide by social distancing guidelines this fall. Some institutions have said they will remove students from campus for noncompliance.

More respondents cited self-doubt as a barrier to pursuing education than cost, according to the latest Strada Education Network survey results.

Editors discuss their new book on campus protest movements against racism and their views of the protest movement after the killing of George Floyd.

More sports cancellations, outdoor classrooms at Rice and new doubts about capacities of college health centers and whether students will social distance.