Physical & Mental Health

Four prominent academics died last month from COVID-19. The toll is likely to grow as the coronavirus spreads and more Americans die, as predicted by public health authorities.

The San Francisco Art Institute will not admit any new students. MacMurray College will close its doors permanently. Both cite the coronavirus outbreak as contributing to financial challenges that were already growing.

Higher education institutions are well positioned to lead efforts beyond campus borders, write S. Abu Turab Rizvi and Peter Eckel, who offer three suggestions for doing so.

Scholars with expertise in Asian American studies, public health and other fields have a new urgent agenda for their teaching, research and outreach: confronting coronavirus-related racism.

Higher education groups push the Education Department to suspend measure of colleges' financial standing, and the department releases new proposed rules on distance education.

Everything you need to know about higher ed and the coronavirus for Thursday in one easy-to-read package.

Scores of institutions announce faculty hiring freezes in response to the coronavirus.