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With the coronavirus spreading through colleges at alarming rates, universities are scrambling to find places to isolate the thousands of students who have caught COVID-19 or been exposed to it

During his senior year of high school, Taran Richardson was accepted to 65 colleges and was offered more than $1 million in scholarship money. Now, the 18-year-old is preparing to start his first semester of college from his mom’s house in Indianapolis. Richardson enrolled at Howard University, a Historically Black College in Washington D.C., but instead of moving out and…

North Texas universities are urging students to take personal responsibility seriously when it comes to COVID-19. It comes after some schools across the country already had to reverse course changing from in-person to online learning within days of classes starting. NBC 5’s Lili Zheng takes a closer look at TCU and UNT’s approach to the fall semester.

The University of Notre Dame and Michigan State universities have become the latest colleges to move classes online because of the coronavirus

If your family was financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic, you can ask for an adjustment to your financial aid.

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.

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...

Southern Methodist University professors are petitioning their administration to allow them ‘the choice’ of returning to classes in-person or online out of fear over COVID-19.

Southern Methodist University professors are petitioning their administration to allow them ‘the choice’ of returning to classes in-person or online out of fear over COVID-19.

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.

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.

Colleges mulling whether to cut sports amid the coronavirus pandemic must ensure they remain compliant with the federal civil-rights law known as Title IX

From moving lecture classes online to limiting roommates per dorm room, colleges and universities across the country are proposing changes to student life that will allow them to reopen campuses safely in the fall.

This year, students may need extra help to make college a reality. Because of the coronavirus crisis and sky-high unemployment rates, fewer than half of families feel confident in their ability to meet the costs of higher education, according to education lender Sallie Mae. About 69% of parents and 55% of students entering college in the fall said Covid-19 has impacted their ability to pay...