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 […]
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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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