Higher ed leaders who want to ensure their buildings are safe when reopening campuses during the pandemic have a wealth of technologies that can help make their facilities healthier.
This summer, multiple professors at the Washington college participated in a coronavirus course for admitted students and now other higher ed leaders can access the content to provide similar lectures at their own institutions.
In Texas, a majority of 260 students at the University of Houston-Downtown are requesting tuition assistance from the Gator Emergency Fund. “Before COVID-19, we received anywhere between 10 to 15 student requests for additional aid on a weekly basis. Compare that to now when, at one week, we had more than 1,000 students apply,” says […]
The University of Missouri–St. Louis has waived tuition payments for online courses in the summer and fall with plans to do the same for the spring semester. Waiving online tuition fees for these three sessions will reduce the university’s incoming revenue by $5 million during a time when the state will, as of now, withhold […]
The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) at the University of Michigan has been awarding scholarships to students requesting additional aid. Since March, the school has redirected 385 of 512 student requests for an emergency scholarship to applications that provide support for tuition, room and board, or to financial aid, says Doug Fletcher, […]
When reopening, colleges and universities that fail to flush their water systems could risk the growth and transmission of a bacteria that can lead to students exhibiting COVID-19-like symptoms or that can escalate the likelihood of older staff and faculty contracting deadly infections.
Temple University launched an online business course that used virtual reality technology right before the coronavirus began affecting schools across the U.S.
A high percentage of Native American students could possibly not enroll in colleges and universities outside of their communities following the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast, enrollment at non-boarding Tribal Colleges and Universities located on native reservations will likely grow.
Federal emergency student grants provided by the CARES Act will no longer be limited to students who receive Title IV aid, the Department of Education announced late on Thursday.
Most colleges and universities are employing artificial intelligence for administrative affairs, but Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is putting this technology into the hands of professors
