Students

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.

Although many people may try to define them by their disadvantages, students often view being first generation as a source of influence and power, Marlette Jackson and Ngoc Tran write.

By Marlette Jackson and Ngoc Tran

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

Marquette is eyeing deep faculty cuts. An undergraduate says she was targeted for discipline because she questioned the administration.

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.

Please don’t try to induce it on your campus without a COVID-19 vaccine, writes David Holtgrave.

By David Holtgrave

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.