Physical & Mental Health

A new survey about student experiences during the fall semester and the coronavirus pandemic found that stress, anxiety and loneliness were their overriding concern. The data are representative of the real-life challenges and uncertainty that students say they face.

Several concerning enrollment trends are holding strong as the latest, and more comprehensive, data show. Experts and advocates are particularly worried about community colleges.

Saying the coronavirus accelerated an ongoing need to rightsize its faculty, college plans to eliminate 130 full-time teaching jobs.

Service staff in higher education have seen drastic layoffs and furloughs. Some have argued not all of those cuts were necessary.

University warns students not to expose themselves to the virus so they can profit financially. Town feels penalized by college's infection rate. Outbreaks at Washington, Monmouth and Ohio University.

Miami Dade College is worrying some faculty and students with its decision to reopen.

City College of New York's new dean of architecture quits after 10 months, saying that structural racism and a lack of support made for a crushing workload and climate.

Four more colleges suspend in-person instruction, while several others expand campus classes; a custodian dies; a university where more employees than students have the virus.