Viruses are part of the human experience throughout our lives. They cause lots of different illnesses with the current coronavirus pandemic as just one example. While a vaccine does provide effective protection from viral infections, vaccines are only available for a select number of viruses. This is why antiviral drugs need to be found that can prevent or treat a viral infection.

Edtech leaders say they’re now part of the inner circle of executive leadership and the business of higher education is “100 percent dependent” on technology.

The public university system is mirroring the federal government's suspension of interest and payments, granting relief to tens of thousands of borrowers.

Some reassuring words.

Why didn't the NCAA have more insurance for the men's basketball tournament? It didn't need it five years ago.

Sent home from college because of the coronavirus outbreak, Carter Oselett is back in his childhood bedroom, paying rent on an empty apartment near campus and occasionally fighting with his parents over the television remote.

The Education Dept. said coronavirus money was on its way. For nearly every student, it still hasn’t arrived. Some don't even know they're eligible.

As colleges and universities try to figure out when to allow students to return to campus, students worry it will be harder for them to vote.

Unprecedented times require unprecedented strategies and actions.

Just 22 percent think they will achieve those targets, according to a new survey of 415 advancement professionals at 48 higher-education institutions.

Planning to reopen colleges successfully will be much more complicated than shutting them down, write Steve Kloehn, Julie A. Peterson and Lisa M. Rudgers, who provide some guidance for getting started.