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Coronavirus News Roundup for April 10
Everything you need to know for Friday and the weekend about higher ed and the coronavirus in one easy-to-read package (with some distractions to help your sanity).
Next-Level Precarity
Non-tenure-track professors are used to uncertainty about contract renewals. But the coronavirus and related hiring freezes represent an unprecedented threat to their careers. They're increasingly refusing to quietly bear the brunt of the disruption.
Pandemic Forces Summer Classes to Move Online
Colleges announce shifts to their summer sessions and consider tuition discounts or fee waivers in some cases.
Higher Ed Groups Call for $47 Billion in Federal Aid
Colleges and universities need a $46.6 billion infusion from Congress to “at least partially restore institutions,” wrote 41 education groups...
Survey: Students Worried About Switch to Online
Many college students are worried about the switch to remote learning, according to a survey from Barnes & Noble Education...
Movement to Forgive Health Care Workers' Student Debt
Consuelo López-Morillas, a professor emerita at Indiana University, Bloomington, started a petition asking lawmakers to cancel student loan debt for...
Stimulus Money Coming Soon, DeVos Says
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos gave colleges and universities some assurance they will soon get their share of the coronavirus relief...
Education Department Releases Stimulus Distribution List
The U.S. Department of Education has released its plan for distributing $14 billion of the federal stimulus to colleges and...