Families face a hard goodbye as their children and siblings leave for college during a pandemic.

In Vermont, Middlebury College is dangling incentives like ski passes to find takers for a satellite locale 11 miles away.

"There is no analogous financial reward for participation in or performance at the Division I Women's Basketball Championship," the study says. "This sends a very clear and loud message to student-athletes, conferences, and schools about which sports matter and which sports do not."

Penn State officials, like their counterparts nationally, are hoping for a return to near normal this fall after 18 months of reduced campus populations; classes that were all or partly online; testing routines; and quarantines.