In this important school-stage writing course, students will practice the abilities necessary for success in school and skilled writing. Students will develop and apply critical studying and considering abilities in quite a lot of research and writing assignments, including evaluation and argument, with some essays based mostly on literary texts […]
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Back on September 8, 11 days before Boston College’s season-opening game, Eagles first-year coach Jeff Hafley announced defensive lineman Luc Bequette had joined the Boston College roster after transferring from Cal. “We are trying to get him acclimated as fast as we can, give him a helmet and let’s roll,” […]
German national Tim Steinebach says he was interested in almost everything related to philosophy, but never really considered applying to a U.S. liberal arts college. That is, until an admissions officer from this type of college visited his school. “I learned about St. John’s and immediately fell in love with […]
MARYLAND —The Princeton Review has released its annual list of the country’s best colleges. The 2021 list, which features 386 schools, includes 11 in Maryland. The colleges were selected based on “our high opinion of their academics,” according to the Princeton Review. The organization says it monitors colleges “continuously and […]
MILWAUKEE, WI — The Princeton Review this week released its annual list of the country’s best colleges. This year’s list, which features 386 schools, includes 5 in Wisconsin. The 2021 Best 386 Colleges were selected based on “our high opinion of their academics,” the Princeton Review said in announcing its […]
PENNSYLVANIA —The Princeton Review has released its annual list of the country’s best colleges. The 2021 list, which features 386 schools, includes 29 in Pennsylvania. The colleges were selected based on “our high opinion of their academics,” the Princeton Review said in announcing its newest list. The organization says it […]
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO – AUGUST 17: A student walks on campus classes begin amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the first day of the fall 2020 semester at the University of New Mexico on August 17, 2020 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, the university […]
Tune in to CBS This Morning from 7 to 9 a.m. EDT to catch USA TODAY education reporter Chris Quintana discussing college reopenings as part of the ongoing USA TODAY and CBS This Morning series “School Matters.” Already reeling from the coronavirus, American colleges and universities now stand to lose hundreds of thousands of international […]
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is ending in-person instruction for undergrads just a week after reopening, after dozens of students living in dorms and a fraternity house tested positive for coronavirus. UNC is hardly the only institution experiencing an uptick in infections within days of students returning […]
Colleges that are reopening campuses this fall know they’re bringing a higher risk of coronavirus to their community. The questions aren’t really about if or when, but about how bad outbreaks could be — and whether having an in-person experience for students is worth the cost. With so much at […]
Long before the coronavirus hit the United States, cash-strapped public higher education systems looked to private donors to offset the steady decline in public funding, sometimes with significant secrecy and strings attached. Critics fear the economic downturn could give donors more leverage to quietly influence curriculum, hiring and scholarships. Open government […]
Photograph: Nina Westervelt/Rex/Shutterstock Ahead of the coming reopening of further education, universities and colleges around America are beginning to announce massive layoffs and job cuts, citing financial difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Public and private university systems announcing cuts to staff, pay and benefits include the University of Massachusetts, […]
Large lecture halls, packed libraries and bustling dining halls won’t be the reality this year for local colleges. Instead, many facilities will be closed or reorganized to encourage social distancing. Schools such as DePaul University, Loyola University Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago all have extensive pages dedicated […]
Students returning to their dorms at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have a new tool to help them navigate campus this semester: a COVID-19 dashboard. Updated weekly, the CV-19 dashboard tracks numerous metrics, including the number of tests conducted, the number of positive cases, school isolation and […]
USC and other California colleges and universities can reopen this fall with some in-person classes and limited dorm life, according to state guidance. (Perry C. Riddle / Los Angeles Times) As California colleges and universities reopen this fall they must adhere to strict limits on in-person classes and greatly restrict […]
Colleges want their students back this fall. That much is clear. What’s less clear are the new rules for student conduct in the midst of a pandemic, and how universities will go about enforcing them, especially when the offensive behavior takes place off-campus – or overnight. The University of Texas […]
As the coronavirus spread all over the world earlier this year, colleges and universities across the U.S. switched to remote learning to mitigate the possibility of outbreaks on campus. Now, even as the number of new cases in the U.S. continues to break records, many schools are planning to return […]
The coronavirus pandemic is changing higher education. Campuses are closed, students are taking classes online, and the number of colleges announcing budget cuts and furloughs is growing. Students, faculty, staff, families and others are wondering what comes next. It’s a transformative moment for higher education. But the trends driving the […]
In its biggest coronavirus vaccine deal yet, the U.S. said Friday it will pay French pharmaceutical company Sanofi and Great Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline up to $2.1 billion to test and produce 100 million doses of an experimental coronavirus vaccine. The deal is part of Operation Warp Speed, a White House-led initiative aimed […]
The incoming freshmen had barely taken their first tentative steps onto the campus of McDaniel College in Westminster when it became clear this would be no ordinary orientation. Among the swag they received: face masks in McDaniel’s signature green. The setting: the Gill Center, normally home to the school’s Green […]