Physical & Mental Health

More colleges shift immediately to remote learning as case counts rise on campuses and nearby. Others abandon plans for in-person learning after the Thanksgiving break.

Citing a quarantine housing shortage, University of Michigan moved COVID-19-exposed students into already occupied campus apartment buildings.

Saint Michael's and Lebanon Valley Colleges shift to remote learning for the rest of the fall term, while Wells, Assumption and Quinnipiac are virtual this week; the virus plays a role in another student death; Wisconsin cancels another football game.

Relatively few colleges have released guidance for student travel over Thanksgiving, even though the COVID-19 pandemic is surging nationwide and the holiday is less than four weeks away.

With less than a month to Thanksgiving, some colleges are starting to tell their stories of how they've contained the virus -- and they're feeling pretty good about the results of their efforts.

Some people who get infected with COVID-19 will have long-term symptoms. What does that mean for colleges?

It's affecting them unequally, and here's what colleges can do, write Parissa J. Ballard, Mariah Kornbluh, Alison K. Cohen, Lindsay Till Hoyt, Melissa J. Hagan and Amanda L. Davis.

Chief health officers can help craft and lend credibility to colleges' pandemic response, but they don't come cheaply.