Physical & Mental Health

Numerous colleges have reminded faculty that they are allowed to teach their classes outside during the pandemic if they’d prefer, writes Martin Skladany, yet they should go a few steps further.

University System of Georgia professors demand a mask mandate and more options for teaching students in quarantine. System considers disciplinary action, up to suspension, for professors who take COVID-19 mitigation into their own hands.

Young Americans for Liberty organizes protests and petitions on 23 public campuses, arguing the organization “is not anti-vaccine, but rather anti-vaccine mandate.”

Borough of Manhattan Community College lost eight students and alumni plus a building in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. On the 20th anniversary, lessons reverberate amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eastern Gateway CC, La Salle U and U of Dallas shift to online courses; Lehigh and St. Lawrence give faculty members the right to shift online; and U of Hawai‘i at Hilo gives faculty members the right to go hybrid.

University not only recruited more students than last year, but also topped figure from the year before.

Upset by rising COVID-19 numbers, UNC Chapel Hill students sign an open letter demanding the administration enact stricter vaccination and testing policies.

Colleges are taking different approaches in terms of how they’re using online learning in the second fall with COVID.