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The Campus Closure Divide
A growing number of colleges and universities close or cancel in-person classes while others keep running as usual. Why are institutions responding differently?
Go Home? For Some Students It's Not Easy
Student advocates say coronavirus-related directives to move off campus threaten to reinforce existing inequalities and put disproportionate burdens on low-income and international students, among others.
GOP-Led Senate Joins House in Rebuking DeVos on Loan Forgiveness
Ten Senate Republicans joined Democrats in backing a resolution opposing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's borrower-defense rule, following a similar measure passed by the House.
Pandemic Triggers Chaos
Colleges and universities across the country are scrambling to prepare for the new coronavirus. Updates from Wed., March 11.
What Qualifies as Harassment?
A federal appeals court says universities must do everything in their power to stop further harassment of students who report it, and defines what behaviors qualify.
Opinion
Coronavirus Could Cause a Long-Term Higher Ed Crisis
Years of budget cuts and failure to address basic student needs make higher education potentially unequipped to deal with a crisis like this, Mark Huelsman warns.
Risky Research
An assistant professor says he was fired because he dared to talk about human population variation and got slandered as a eugenicist.
University of Michigan Removes Provost
The University of Michigan removed Martin A. Philbert as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs Wednesday. The university's...