Physical & Mental Health

Colleges rely on guidance from a federal health agency that is operating, as one public health expert put it, "with two hands tied behind its back."

Several more universities pause in-person instruction to stem spread of virus, as such moves spur decreases elsewhere. Study estimates sizable role of in-person instruction in local outbreaks. Most NCAA fall championships will be played in the spring.

Adrian College planned to terminate history, philosophy, religion and more -- until graduates organized to stop it. Faculty members still don't understand why the programs were threatened.

New survey data from the American College Health Association suggest colleges are decreasing their funding to health services, keeping residence halls open and varying widely with regard to testing.

This weekend, three colleges began mass quarantines, one canceled a football game and one men’s soccer team has been suspended.

As colleges try to tamp down partying by students, administrators consider options for promoting lower-risk -- not no-risk -- social opportunities and providing a semblance of a normal college experience.

Rising infection counts drove a shelter-in-place order at the University of Wisconsin at Madison shortly after classes started, prompting questions about bringing students back to campus.

Several universities impose campuswide stay-in-place orders, some of which are just "recommended," while other colleges limit movement of groups of students on campus and off.