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Vulnerable to Measles
Despite the warnings of experts, 22 states don't require students to be vaccinated, and campus policies vary widely.
Responding to Measles Outbreak
Students at four colleges appear to have the disease. Experts say it is crucial for colleges to review immunization records.
Illegal Mandatory Leave?
Recent court cases, including a discrimination settlement at Quinnipiac University, suggest that colleges have to consider alternatives to forcing a student with a mental health condition to withdraw.
Opinion
Rethinking Everything … Literally
Working with a group of students who are linear thinkers by nature has forced Lee Burdette Williams to block that metaphor.
Recommended Resting
Wake Forest University encourages students to de-stress by taking quick naps in its library. It's one of many ways colleges are trying to reduce the anxiety felt by their students.
Big Ten and the Next Big Thing
Michigan, Purdue and the Wisconsin System give competency-based education a try, but carefully and with targeted new programs.
On Edge Over Ebola
One college suspends new admissions for all of Africa while other institutions have disinvited speakers or quarantined students and faculty.
Fitness Without Athletics
Two years after Spelman announced it was leaving the NCAA, the historically black women's college is attempting a "wellness revolution."