For many universities in the United States, the COVID-19 threat that they’d been preparing for became real around spring break—and their world changed rapidly. Colleges sent students home and shifted into virtual classes in just a few weeks. But moving classes online and shutting down dorms were just part of […]

Newswise — As the COVID-19 pandemic began in the United States, universities were forced to make difficult operational decisions to help slow the spread of the disease and protect their students, faculty, staff, and community members. Guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, the World Health Organization […]

A union has called on universities to move more teaching online amid England’s lockdown (Getty Images) A leading union has called on universities to push teaching online amid England’s new lockdown. The University and College Union has written to vice-chancellors to ask them to stop all non-essential in-person activities, and […]

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown Michigan’s colleges and universities for a loop this semester. As many schools canceled fall break and told their students to finish the semester virtually after Thanksgiving, administrators have begun planning schedules for the winter 2021 semester. At schools like Central Michigan University, Grand Valley State […]