Students

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.

Private colleges in Florida, New York and Minnesota end in-person instruction for the semester. A Big Ten football game is canceled, as are spring sports seasons at two colleges.

The editor of a student newspaper is facing sanction by the institution's president for reporting considered routine journalistic practice. Free press advocates call it an "egregious" violation of the First Amendment.

Teacher education programs were facing major problems even before the pandemic, but are they dying of natural causes or being killed off? Either way, what's lost when they go away for good?

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.