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Uncertain Fate for Support Staff

What will happen to college food service and custodial workers when campuses are empty? The answer is unclear for most, and layoffs aren't off the table.

The Campus Closure Divide

A growing number of colleges and universities close or cancel in-person classes while others keep running as usual. Why are institutions responding differently?

Go Home? For Some Students It's Not Easy

Student advocates say coronavirus-related directives to move off campus threaten to reinforce existing inequalities and put disproportionate burdens on low-income and international students, among others.
Opinion

Coronavirus Could Cause a Long-Term Higher Ed Crisis

Years of budget cuts and failure to address basic student needs make higher education potentially unequipped to deal with a crisis like this, Mark Huelsman warns.

Pandemic Triggers Chaos

Colleges and universities across the country are scrambling to prepare for the new coronavirus. Updates from Wed., March 11.

Colleges Ask Students to Leave Campuses

A roundup of how the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on higher education.
Opinion

Academe in the Red Zone

Matthew Loveless describes life as a professor in Italy during the coronavirus outbreak.

Keeping Their Distance

As universities across the country move instruction online to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, they're also trying to curtail student activities and interactions outside of classrooms that can contribute to community spread.