INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – On Wednesday, Butler University students can start getting COVID-19 vaccines on campus. It’s part of an effort to get people on campus vaccinated before the end of the semester. This clinic is happening on Wednesday through Friday at Hinkle Fieldhouse from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The second […]
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Rutgers University will require students returning to campus this fall to prove they’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19, becoming one of the first institutions in the U.S. to mandate the immunizations. Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway announced the change Thursday, saying in a statement the university plans to update its immunization requirements […]
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio — The city’s Planning Commission has scheduled a special meeting for 7 p.m. Tuesday (March 23), during which it will again take up a matter that drew a large amount of interest when the commission last met, on March 4. During that March 4 Zoom meeting, about […]
For Penn State professor Jadrian Wooten, the popular TV show “Parks and Recreation” is more than a funny show — it’s a tool he uses to educate students. Wooten, an associate teaching professor of economics, uses popular culture and TV references in his classes to teach his students, which has […]
In March 2020, students’ and teachers’ lives around the world were suddenly impacted in a way nobody could have foreseen. Approximately one year ago, students were sent home from Penn State for two weeks, which would later turn into the remainder of the spring semester. With the onset of the […]
An upcoming, virtual town hall meeting co-sponsored by Port Arthur Newsmedia and Lamar University aims to educate the city’s voters about the upcoming Port Arthur parks proposition election. The online event is slated to run from 3 to 4 p.m. March 10 and can be viewed live on the newspaper’s […]
As the first week of in-person classes comes to a close, many Penn State students continue to figure out a routine that will last them through the spring semester. Some students, like Sam Biederwolf, said the atmosphere started to feel “more normal” than during the remote period since students arrived […]
The founder of Draper University threatened to move it out of downtown San Mateo during a Planning Commission meeting Tuesday after officials expressed continued reservation about proposed changes to the historic Benjamin Franklin Hotel where it is located. The Planning Commission remains unconvinced by the proposed changes to the university […]
As some American states and European nations reenter a lockdown due to rising cases of the coronavirus, international travel remains in limbo. While college classes have largely been shifted online, the world of academic field work cannot be so easily altered, according to Penn State researchers. Travel shutdowns and rising […]
KALAMAZOO, MI — Students at Western Michigan, who will now pivot to online learning a few days earlier than they planned, are hopeful they will be able to return to campus in January. On Monday, Nov. 16, as a line of cars grew at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site set […]
The day Purdue’s seven-day positivity rate peaked to an all-time high — 6.87% — for the seventh day in a row, the University announced it will pause surveillance testing until January. This pause will likely lead to an increase between 2-4% in the University and Tippecanoe County’s positivity rates because […]
Universities have faced coronavirus outbreaks on campus this term (AFP via Getty Images) Government plans for students to return home for Christmas are “riddled with holes”, a union has said, while the promised mass-testing programme does not yet exist. One student told The Independent he was “very angry” at being […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Syracuse University is switching to all online learning starting on Thursday, Nov. 12. The university said this might make students accelerate their plans to leave campus. They plan to help students who choose to leave early so they can do so as safely as possible. This […]
Students are to be sent straight home from university after lockdown so they can spend Christmas with their families, official guidance will say. The long-awaited advice, which will be published on Wednesday by the Department for Education will say that all lectures and classes should move online by December 9 […]
Signs on a window at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Birley campus where hundreds of students were told to self-isolate The “mass exodus” of university students is expected ahead of lockdown, despite pleas from ministers to remain on campus. Students want to spend the next month where they feel “safest and most […]
Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. filed a state lawsuit Wednesday against the evangelical school founded by his father, claiming he was wrongly ousted from his leadership post. Falwell had led the school for 13 years before he resigned under pressure in late August amid a series of embarrassing […]
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Sean CoughlanEducation correspondent image copyrightPeter Byrne Getting university students home for the Christmas holidays has become a political priority – and the plans to make it possible are getting more complicated by the day. There are proposals for a mass testing programme for students and for stopping any in-person teaching […]
Wake Forest University said president Nathan Hatch will step down after leading the school for 15 years. Hatch plans to retire in June. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest University announced Tuesday university president Nathan Hatch will step down in his role at the end of this school year. The university […]
Many Penn State students have been waiting to take a trip back to the gym as a part of their daily routine for the fall semester — and now they have the chance. The Intramural Building reopened to students on Sept. 25. The White Building and the Hepper Fitness Center […]
KALAMAZOO, MI — The Sindecuse Health Center at Western Michigan University reported 50 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, Sept. 29. The 50 new cases come from the results of WMU community members that were tested on Sept. 24-25. The university has been updating data on its online COVID-19 Dashboard […]
(Getty Images) Jack Miller will return to his second year at the University of Newcastle this month. The 19-year-old says ahead of his arrival, after a summer of lockdown, his primary feeling is confusion over the new coronavirus measures, which stop gatherings of more than six people, but do allow […]