A new report that details the ongoing efforts at 10 colleges and universities to break down racial hierarchies and promote racial healing on their campuses and in their communities can help expand racial awareness in higher education overall.

The Lisa and James Wilson Institute for Medicine at Albion College in Michigan is embarking on college-wide premedical curriculum reform, including efforts to increase diversity among physicians. Here's a look at the changes they made and how the COVID-19 pandemic can serve as an opportunity for all medical schools to adapt their programming.

Faculty at a number of colleges and universities are expressing concerns that blocking the spread of COVID-19 isn't addressed adequately in their campus' reopening plan.

Several more colleges this week announced plans to control coronavirus by inviting different groups of students back to campus for different stretches of the 2020-21 academic year.