Students

Enrollment and tuition and fee data reinforce our anecdotal sense that students seeking community college credentials face the biggest problems, Sandy Baum writes.

The colleges with the most cumulative cases of COVID-19 show no signs of shutting down. Some of their critics find themselves burned out and resigned.

A Dayton student dies. Northeastern plans to bring faculty back to campus next spring. Florida Memorial suspends in-person classes, Bethune-Cookman goes on "lockdown" and University of New England quarantines a dorm.

In Boston and San Francisco, public high schools with competitive admissions abandon tests for admissions -- for one year.

Student government leaders and national get-out-the-vote organizations say classes on Election Day are barriers to voting. They want a designated holiday instead and classes replaced with voter engagement efforts.

Scholars discuss what it’s like to be a Black professor in 2020, who should be doing antiracist work on campus and why diversity interventions that attempt to “fix” Black academics for a rigged game miss the point entirely.

University will shift most classes to remote learning and let students go home if they choose. Midwestern mayors (and Maryland students) wary of football crowds. Cortland stays virtual amid stubborn case count.

Byron Stewart describes how he uses shortcuts to help build classroom community and help students who are strangers become a close-knit team.