When it is safe enough to return to school, young children would benefit the most. Yet financial pressures are pushing colleges to reopen most rapidly, an economist says.

Kassidy Woods, a redshirt sophomore receiver at Washington State, was concerned about the pandemic. The coach was sympathetic until he learned he was joining a players’ rights initiative.

A group of Pac-12 football players on Sunday threatened to opt out of the coming season unless its concerns about competing during the COVID-19 pandemic and other racial and economic issues in college sports are addressed.

Tagged as irresponsible for socializing in big groups, teens and twentysomethings are grappling with a ‘biological mandate’ to see friends and colleagues.

We’re among the privileged who can still afford to send our kid off to college. And until recently, we assumed that would be the plan.

A cabal of college football leaders wants the games to go on, at seemingly any cost. But players are pushing back.

In a private meeting with conference leaders and medical advisors, several football players raised concerns about their safety, only to be told that positive cases on their teams were a “given.”

Is it safe to go back to college during the COVID-19 pandemic? Here's everything you need to know.

There are no good options for the National Collegiate Athletic Association.The NCAA’s decision on whether to go ahead with fall seasons for every sport except football is expected as soon as Tuesday. If the organization opts to sponsor competition in soccer, cross country and field hockey, among others, critics will say it’s jeopardizing the health of scholar-athletes as a resurgent coronavirus outbreak rages. But if the NCAA cancels the seasons, it risks angering the five biggest football confe

Brown University was ordered to submit all documents related to its decision to demote five varsity women’s teams to club status this spring by the judge overseeing a newly reopened lawsuit against the Ivy League school over gender parity in sports.

Even with most classes online, some students are excited to be on campus. Others say it isn’t worth the risk right now.

Hotels near college campuses are targeting students as the coronavirus pandemic leaves altered school calendars and general uncertainty over the fate of the fall semester.

During the14-day period, students are required to monitor their health and reduce contact with others.

Students are speaking out against attending in-person classes at Elon University. Their concerns are centered around the possibility of contracting COVID-19 this upcoming fall semester.

Some professors are calling on their peers and institutions to incorporate historically marginalized, non-Eurocentric cultures.

Jerry Falwell Jr.’s dream of athletic domination is in peril.

We tried several simulations in advance of opening for the new semester, and here is what we learned, write Anna McLoon, Sarah K. Berke and other Siena College scholars.

Scholars mourned the COVID-19-related death of a scientist who said she’d been forced to teach during the pandemic. Then they realized she probably wasn’t real.

More than half of the campus leaders responding to a survey predict that they won’t cut academic programs, but many expect layoffs and across-the-board reductions.

With school, day care, and college schedules in constant flux, academic parents brace themselves for a chaotic fall.