Those waivers could mean schools don't have to spend as much on precautions, like new heating and ventilation systems.

Today, we hear from students and faculty at area colleges. Some are teaching and attending online classes, and others are back in the classroom. What concerns do they have about being back on campus or about a college experience compromised by virtual classes?

The coronavirus has followed students back to campus, with several colleges that reopened their grounds reporting case counts in the hundreds or more. 

Heading into gyms and other places reopening, the trend looks good. Here’s what experts say it takes to keep it up.

The University of Arkansas’s strategy to focus testing on those who are symptomatic or exposed highlights a critical decision schools have to make as millions of college students return to campus.

During the coronavirus era, internet-based graduate business programs are increasing as prominent U.S. universities seek new students.

“We’re really nervous, anxious and scared,” a University of Alabama professor said after faculty were emailed not to share information about infections on campus.

UNC and NC State already have gone all virtual. Meanwhile, Duke’s approach is “very much like a tournament: survive and advance.”

There have been more than 30 coronavirus clusters at N.C. State. At UNC-Chapel Hill, the positivity rate was 41% last week.

The Greek houses at Indiana University-Bloomington are being directed to quarantine because of COVID-19.

Higher education has ignored its main mission: to teach critical thinking. It’s time to take the adults back to school.

Another wealthy parent was charged Wednesday with trying to bribe his child's way into an elite university as a fake athletic recruit, a day after two former college coaches caught up in the nationwide admissions bribery scandal were hit with additional charges.

University of Iowa students and faculty members stage “sickout” to protest campus reopening plan.

New analysis found that a college's reopening decision for the fall term is tied to the red or blue shade of its state, even if political pressure may not be direct.

The pandemic has brought students’ insecurity to the fore.