The decision by the school’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., to partly reopen his evangelical university enraged residents of Lynchburg, Va. Then students started getting sick.
When Covid-19 struck, Stanford closed its classrooms. The novelist Daniel Mason turned his students’ last assignment into an exercise for staying well.
Australian universities are beginning to retrench in expectation of a shortfall of student applicants from China because of travel bans imposed to fight the coronavirus, in a harbinger of challenges universities in Western countries may face in the fall.
College seniors were preparing to graduate into the hottest job market in decades. Now, graduation ceremonies are canceled and many of the soon-to-be degree holders are wondering whether they should even bother looking for jobs.
Some of the nation’s most selective colleges became slightly less selective this year, as Harvard University, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania posted increased acceptance rates for the first-year class that will begin in the fall.
It was during Act 1 of the final dress rehearsal for Puccini’s “La Rondine” at the Peabody Conservatory that the school president sent out an email canceling all nonessential gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic.
An unprecedented shutdown of academic research underway on many campuses has implications for young investigators still building careers in their fields.
Under its athletic director, Bobby Valentine, the small Connecticut university is expanding its facilities in the hopes of becoming a college hockey power.
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