A pandemic returns the focus to what matters: education.

About 20 percent of colleges plan to open exclusively or primarily in person, according to a tracker from Davidson College in North Carolina.

At schools around the US, suspensions — and dismissals — are rising along with cases. And a growing number of students are seeing classes go online.

North Carolina colleges and universities have reported 72 COVID-19 clusters since the start of the fall semester (and in some cases before).

Even remote education companies like Outlier have had their work disrupted during the pandemic.

The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.

It’s the same as it ever was: To learn that the world is more than the issues that divide us.

Some colleges have sent students back home after seeing a rise in coronavirus cases, causing public-health officials to worry that dispatching students to their hometowns, often without testing them before departure, could lead to new outbreaks around the country.

The dismissal underscores the extreme steps universities nationwide are taking to deter behavior that could accelerate the spread of the novel coronavirus on campus.

Some schools are checking more students who have no symptoms of covid-19.

The Post asked instructors from U.S. universities to share their advice for students in remote-learning courses.

With the coronavirus spreading through colleges at alarming rates, universities are scrambling to find quarantine locations in dormitory buildings and off-campus properties to isolate the thousands of students who have caught COVID-19 or been exposed to it.

At colleges like the University of Rochester, getting international students to campus is among the most complicated of their COVID-19 challenges.

Housing agreements between universities and hotels are enabling a return to campus across the U.S. For hotels, the partnerships are bringing back business but students note the isolation.

Trying to do so is all but useless.

The State University at Oneonta in central New York on Thursday said it’s sending students home amid rising Covid-19 rates. The same day, Temple University in Philadelphia called it quits. So did Colorado College earlier in the week.

The Bloomberg Philanthropies donation is the largest gift received by Howard University’s medical school.