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March 16, 2021
Lack of internet access, declining first-year enrollment and increasing student withdrawals are just some of the pandemic-related challenges. Many students have also lost family members to COVID-19.

March 16, 2021
Federal relief dollars appear to be enough to keep nationwide totals of state higher ed funding steady this fiscal year, even amid the pandemic. But almost half of individual states still reported funding declines.

March 16, 2021
With the pandemic limiting face-to-face interaction, universities turned to new virtual peer tutoring pathways that save money and can offer sessions at any time of day. But are students booking as many sessions and getting the academic help they need?

March 16, 2021
Author discusses her new book on how to use design thinking to change community colleges.

March 16, 2021
Allegheny College Ian Carbone, environmental science and sustainability Heather Moore Roberson, community and justice studies and Black studies Lauren Paulson, psychology Byron Rich, art Jennie Votava, English Jon Wiebel, communication, film and theater Saint Joseph's University, in Pennsylvania

March 15, 2021
New survey reached students attending colleges with policies that restrict students from exploring their LGBTQ+ identities.

March 15, 2021
Administrations are considering the upcoming fall. What sorts of equity issues are at play with a return to "normal"?

March 15, 2021
National Labor Relations Board withdraws a proposed rule against student employee unions. The development will likely lead to more unionization efforts on private campuses. Columbia University grad assistants, planning a strike, welcome the news.

March 15, 2021
Our annual bracket shows who would win the NCAA Division I men's basketball championship based on academic performance. And the winner is …

March 12, 2021
Black students at the University of Richmond are not happy that the name of a Black newspaper editor and civil rights activist will be added to a building alongside the name of a white segregationist and eugenicist.

March 12, 2021
A video of the adjunct law professor making “reprehensible” comments about Black students circulated on social media and angered students.

March 12, 2021
Colleges trumpet fall plans in recent weeks because they feel they need to share concrete information with prospective students. Good vaccine news helps, too.

March 12, 2021
The organization has a budget of $1 billion and cannot pay a ransom to regain its files.

March 12, 2021
Brian O. Hemphill, president of Radford University, in Virginia, has been selected as president of Old Dominion University, also in Virginia. Kerop Janoyan, dean of the Graduate School at Clarkson University, in New York, has been appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of La Verne, in California.

March 11, 2021
Undergraduate enrollment fell by 4.5 percent versus last spring, with deep drops among some underrepresented students, according to early data. Graduate enrollment ticked up, but not enough to prevent an overall decline in student numbers.

March 11, 2021
After reading paper after paper describing the problem, scientists urge on- and off-campus entities to help female caregivers weather the pandemic through specific policy changes and approaches.

March 11, 2021
The shift to remote learning forced STEM instructors to increasingly accept online education. But concerns about how to give students meaningful lab experiences remain.

March 11, 2021
A new set of fundraising reporting standards aims to help colleges and universities compare their performance across borders. It also prioritizes ethical considerations at a time when donor and institutional conduct are under the microscope.

March 10, 2021
As the pandemic sapped dormitory projects of their financial reserves, a contractor told the University System of Georgia it had a "win-win" financial proposal, according to newly available documents. The system said no, and soon, the contractor allegedly said it would not be cleaning enough to meet state public health recommendations.

March 10, 2021
University of Texas at Austin report finds its alma mater wasn't originally intended to be racist despite describing "a painful reality of the song’s origin." Observers doubt the findings will keep students from feeling excluded.

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