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Massachusetts university system will align with adult-serving online institution in California, aiming to create a major national player in online learning.

Students object to the college’s policies limiting off-campus activities, and a debate ensues over whether the policies overreach or are appropriately cautious.

The North Idaho Board of Trustees expanded its power and subsequently repealed a mask mandate put in place by the community college’s president.

S. Brock Blomberg, president of Ursinus College, in Pennsylvania, has been appointed president of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Devin A. Byrd, vice president for academic affairs at Saybrook University, in California, has been chosen as president of Bastyr University, in Washington State.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University strengthens its masking policy one day after a department chair quits over it. The professor says the policy update still leaves professors on the hook for enforcement, with no clear recourse.  

Starting Out Dalton State College, in Georgia, is starting a campaign to raise $16.5 million by the end of the year. Thus far, the college has raised $15.2 million. Finishing Up

New report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center finds equity gaps in transfer rates during the pandemic.

Colleges in the path of the storm begin assessing damages. Many will remain closed for now in face of widespread power outages. Tulane plans to resume in-person instruction Oct. 11.

W. Joseph King described Lyon as a bubble “of inclusion and diversity surrounded by a sea of angry, disenfranchised populations and a large white-supremacist population.” He’s now out of a job.