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Normally this time of year, thousands of college students are descending on Worcester to resume classes for the spring semester. But in the midst of the current coronavirus surge, health officials are urging a delay. “Coming back now when we’re in the teeth of the surge, I think the viral load in the community’s much higher,” said Worcester Medical...

As coronavirus cases surge around the nation, there are new concerns about college students returning to campuses. In Worcester, thousands are expected to return this weekend — here’s what they’re doing to prepare.

Mariah Guzman, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, and Chancellor Robert Jones gave NBC Chicago an inside look at their high-tech efforts to keep students on the Urbana-Champaign campus safe from COVID-19, including twice a week saliva tests and contact tracing via Bluetooth. One week after opening its doors, the school had an outbreak anyway.

With Thanksgiving break on the horizon, some colleges and universities in the Boston area are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases on their campuses. The COVID-19 dashboards for Boston University, MIT and Northeastern University have shown recent rises in the number of cases on campus. MIT reported 65 positive tests in the first 13 days of November after reporting 46…

A scathing report from the Trump administration on Tuesday concluded that top U.S. universities have “massively underreported” funding they accept from China, Russia and other nations described as “foreign adversaries.”

With students heading back to college, some health experts are recommending that should an outbreak of COVID-19 occur on campus, students should just stay there and not return home.

As waves of schools and businesses around the country get the OK to reopen, some college towns are moving in the opposite direction because of too much partying and too many COVID-19 infections among students

Some people are concerned that bringing students back to Massachusetts college campuses could bring coronavirus clusters that require classes to quickly go remote, especially in light of what is unfolding at UNC-Chapel Hill. Just a week after in-person classes started at UNC, more than 300 students and staff have tested positive for COVID-19. North Carolina’s flagship university has had to…

Universities are reporting positive cases of COVID-19 as students return to campuses. Could this cause Boston-area universities to close as well?

As the fall semester slowly begins, with new precautions in place, at Boston University and nearby Emerson College, at least one person at each institution has tested positive for the new coronavirus. The tests may not be the last among students who return to universities in the Boston area this fall during the COVID-19 pandemic. Local schools, including BU and…

The coronavirus crisis has created financial stress for higher education institutions across the country, but it’s hitting small four-year private schools and two-year public schools particularly hard in Massachusetts, a new report shows.  “You’re going to see outright closings,” former Guilford College President Kent Chabotar told NBC10. “Colleges with under 1,000 students, with a small endowment — those are...

There is no existing standard of reporting coronavirus cases or deaths on campuses, nor is that information being publicly tracked on a national scale, NBC News reports. A New York Times survey revealed at least 6,600 cases tied to roughly 270 colleges. Universities have taken various approaches to sharing coronavirus updates with students and faculty. Some schools, such as the University of Wisconsin—Madison, plan...

A study by The Hechinger Report found that many colleges and universities were already facing downturns in enrollment, retention, tuition revenue and state appropriations before the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the school year. Senior editor Sarah Butrymowicz joined LX news to discuss how this added financial stress could change higher education post-pandemic.

Boston hotels are partnering with local universities in Boston to provide housing for students as they return to campus for the fall semester amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Boston Globe reports. In order to grapple with coronavirus-related challenges, universities have been working to provide students with socially-distanced housing as they prepare to welcome back students. Northeastern University, Suffolk University and…

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

Several Massachusetts colleges and universities have released their plans for the fall semester amid the coronavirus pandemic and one Boston design firm is helping them get ready to welcome students back to campus. While some institutions have opted to stay remote, others are opting for a mix of in-person and online instruction to try and keep students and staff safe…

Several New England colleges and universities have released their plans for the fall semester amid the coronavirus pandemic.

There’s going to be a ripple effect through the Maine economy as colleges decide whether to reopen this fall. A report issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston found that Maine leads the region in terms of the number of communities that are heavily dependent on colleges and universities for their local economies. All told, 19 of the 57…

It will be a “blended” mix of in-person instruction and remote learning as state universities in Massachusetts welcome students back to campus in the fall for the first time in six months. “We’re confident that we can do this, and we can do it successfully and we can do it safely,” said Massachusetts State Universities Council of Presidents Executive...

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…