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Faculty Pandemic Stress Is Now Chronic
COVID-19-related changes to teaching and dealing with students' mental health continue to weigh on professors, with implications for their own mental health.
Duke Study Highlights Importance of Asymptomatic Testing
Study demonstrates importance of frequent, routine testing of asymptomatic students and feasibility of a pooled testing approach.
Cutting the In-Person Semester Short
Many colleges are now announcing new shifts to online learning that will continue for the rest of the semester.
Opinion
3 Campus Groups That Especially Need Support
Come what may between now and Inauguration Day, their future may be murky at best and debilitating at worst, warns José Villalba.
COVID-19 Roundup: As Cases Rise Nationally, Colleges Pull Back
This weekend, at least four colleges announced they are moving classes online. Michigan ordered a three-week pause in in-person instruction. Fifteen football games were canceled or postponed, and University of Tennessee athletics staff have refused pay cuts.
A New Era for Campus Discourse?
Liberal students, and even some conservatives, feel hopeful that Joe Biden's election will lead to less divisive dialogue on campus and make strides for students of color. But some students on the right worry their free speech rights could be compromised.
Waiting for a Vaccine
Promising news about potential vaccine candidates brings a shred of hope to higher ed, but medical experts say “normal” is still several months away.
Opinion
10 Times Better for Our Democracy
That's what the new rules for Title IX are, argues Meg Mott.