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Saint Anselm College is welcoming back about 2,000 students to its Manchester, New Hampshire, campus starting Friday, and the safety precautions start with move-in day. Or make that move-in days. This year, students will be divided into groups of 200 and move in over the course of 10 days to limit the number of people in one place at one…

College kids are getting ready to head back to campus. New Hampshire’s Saint Anselm College has made many changes to keep its students safe when they arrive Friday.

College students returning to campus this fall will need to do a bit more preparation than packing and planning out their course load. They may need to fill out new medical forms, undergo online training and be tested for the new coronavirus before they can get back on campus, like students at Worcester Polytechnic Insitute will. “I got COVID tested…

California State University (CSU) recently voted to require ethnic studies or social justice classes a requirement for graduation as the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have propelled social unrest and injustice issues to the forefront.

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, a growing number of U.S. colleges have said their campuses will remain closed through the fall semester.

Sue O’Connell sat down with Kelly Anne Smith, personal finance reporter at Forbes Advisor, to talk about gap year options high school seniors may be more inclined to consider with uncertainty hanging over college campuses.

As colleges and universities prepare for the fall semester, many are partnering with the Broad Institute to implement coronavirus testing on campus. Scientists at the institute, which is affiliated with Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are processing 7,000 tests a day, promising results within 24 hours. The majority of those tests originate from the bay state. The speed…

Laith Mekouar was a freshman at James Madison University when the coronavirus pandemic closed his campus back in March. Mekouar discusses how his college experience will change in the fall and how he feels about returning to school with coronavirus cases rising.

Texas’s Tarleton State University and other small schools are getting a boost in enrollment as the coronavirus pandemic makes traveling to large, distant schools less appealing to students. The university’s president James Hurley joins LX News to discuss the trend.

As coronavirus cases start to surge in more than 30 states across the U.S., some professors are pushing back when it comes to returning to campus for in-person teaching, NBC News reports. More than 50% of colleges and universities have announced they will be hosting professors or students back on campus in the next few months, per data tracked by the Chronicle of...

President Donald Trump is determined to reopen the country

With a growing number of colleges planning to offer fall classes online, many international students will not be able to stay in U.S., according to new rules issued Monday. That could mean a significant hit to school budgets — and student aid. Under the guidelines issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “students attending schools operating entirely online may not take a full...

Sue O’Connell sat down with Rick Weissbourd, senior lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and faculty director of Making Caring Common, to talk about the obstacles in the way for high school seniors this upcoming school year and what they should be thinking about when making a resume and applying to college.

Minkyung Kim, the founder of RK College Consulting, says she expects college applications to the Ivy League to go up this year as more students try to get into top schools that have dropped the SAT requirement. She offers some tips for how to stand out.

UMass Boston will not bring its students back to the Columbia Point campus in the fall and will instead continue on with the remote teaching and learning platform that it launched after students left campus in March due to the COVID-19 outbreak. UMass Boston Interim Chancellor Katherine Newman announced the decision Monday morning and the campus said “the decision was…

Amid the uncertainty of what college will look like this fall, one thing is for sure — it won’t be the typical experience for students. There may be in-person classes, online learning only or a hybrid model that combines the two. That is just the academic end. There is also life on campus: when and where to don a mask,…

University of Minnesota student Jael Kerandi convinced her school to terminate its contractual relationship with the Minneapolis police department following the death of George Floyd.

Boston University created a website called “Back 2 BU” where the reopening plan for each area of the university is detailed.

Presidents of colleges and universities from across the state, who put together a framework for reopening amid the coronavirus crisis for the fall semester, are meeting with state officials Thursday. Two dozen college presidents unveiled the road map last week suggesting how colleges and universities can welcome students back to in-person instruction this fall. Three members of the working group…

When students finally return to in-person classes, they will find their college campuses look a lot different. “My concerns so far are students not being able to get back on campus,” said Salem State University junior Brendan Benevento of Auburn, Massachusetts. Benevento says he knows if and when students return to school next year, it will be a very different…