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Seeing Students for Who They Are and Where They’ve Been
How precollege experiences and students’ identities shape the challenges they face and connections they make in postsecondary education.
Changed Political Winds in Virginia Shift Vaccine Policy
The new Republican attorney general in Virginia says public colleges lack authority to mandate COVID-19 vaccines, reversing the opinion of his Democratic predecessor.
More Support for COVID-19–Affected Professors
Two years into the pandemic, Stanford University is offering junior faculty members another pretenure year or an additional quarter of research leave, plus childcare and research grants. Will other institutions follow suit?
Limited Entry to Japan
Country lets in 87 international students out of 147,000 waiting to return.
Discontinuing the COVID Dashboard
The University of Florida has stopped updating its dashboard. Will more colleges follow suit?
Colleges Lead on COVID-19 Testing as Omicron Surges
Throughout the pandemic, colleges have served as COVID-19 testing sites for their local communities. Some institutions are developing new testing methods of their own.
Isolating With COVID … and a Roommate
Facing a projected squeeze on isolation housing, some colleges modify their polices to allow COVID-positive students to isolate in their dorms—even if they have roommates—or to go home.
Not a Criminal, but Not Professor Material?
A Penn State professor says he was protecting pro–vaccine mandate demonstrators when he struggled with a counterprotester. The professor was vindicated in court, but Penn State wants to fire him anyway.