Policy and Legal Affairs

Another wave of colleges and universities are cutting tuition this week as COVID convinces campus leaders to stick with online and remote learning for the fall semester. 

College and university students deserve a range of guaranteed consumer protections, according to a Tuition Payer Bill of Rights released Wednesday by a coalition of advocacy organizations.

By mid-summer, the University of Rochester had reopened about 140 lab spaces, allowing about 675 researchers to go back to work.

A program to guide leaders in building greater diversity and equity at schools, workplaces and other organizations has been launched online by Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina.

Colleges and universities are expected to experience up to 10% in budget shortfalls and upwards of 13.4% drops in endowments for the 2020-21 school year and need to prepare for this reality sooner rather than later.

Simply asking students to monitor themselves for COVID symptoms such as fevers and coughs is not sufficient for safely reopening campuses this fall, according to a JAMA report.