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Panel Explores Accreditation and Role of HBCUs During COVID-19 Crisis

Higher education leaders convened virtually Nov. 19 to discuss the role of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and accreditation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

November 23, 2020

Atlanta Mayor Discusses Leadership Amid COVID-19

From election results to COVID-19 to systemic racism, and how to manage and lead amid these various challenges was the focus of Monday’s “Voices in Leadership” webcast series sponsored by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Read More

November 16, 2020

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms

North Carolina Will Provide COVID-19 Tests to In-State Higher Ed Institutions Before Holiday Breaks

North Carolina will be providing COVID-19 tests to colleges and universities across the state as holiday breaks approach, ABC 13 News reported. Read More

November 16, 2020

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper

Michigan to Implement New Gathering Restrictions Amid COVID-19 Surge

Amid a COVID-19 surge, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Sunday new pandemic restrictions that limit gatherings, effective Wednesday until Dec. 8, The Detroit News reported. Read More

November 16, 2020

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Pandemic Pushes Steep Drop in Foreign College Students

Complications and new policies brought on by the coronavirus pandemic have stopped thousands of international students from attending universities in the U.S. this fall, raising concerns that the steep decline could foretell a long-lasting shift for universities that have come to rely on attracting international students. At risk are millions of dollars in tuition for […]

November 16, 2020

Michigan State University

The Colleges with Virtually No Coronavirus Cases

In contrast to the pandemic drama playing out at colleges and universities across the country, a handful of schools, including Sarah Lawrence, have kept the disease at bay. Some of these schools are public, others private. All have created their own small public health infrastructures, sharing cohesive public health messaging and implementing COVID-19 testing regimens […]

November 16, 2020

Sarah Lawrence College

COVID-19 Makes It More Important Than Ever for Students to File for Federal Financial Aid

Some college students are just trying to navigate a socially distant trip home for Thanksgiving. Other students feel stuck at the midpoint of their college or high school semesters, weighed down by staring at a computer screen for 10 hours a day. Read More

November 16, 2020

MorraLee (Holzapfel) Keller

Colleges’ Thanksgiving Breaks Stir Fears of COVID-19 Spread

Universities and colleges on Long Island are mandating COVID-19 tests for some students, and encouraging tests for the rest, as tens of thousands of them prepare to travel home for Thanksgiving just as infection rates are rising nationwide. Read More

November 16, 2020

Dr. Bruce Farber,

Study Hopes to Lead to Improved Health for Rural Appalachia

The National Institutes of Health/National Heart Lung and Blood Institute recently awarded a five-year $3.8 million grant to the University of Kentucky to begin a new study aimed at improving diet and activity among rural Appalachian Kentuckians. Read More

November 9, 2020

University of Kentucky

Software From NCSU, A&T Aims to Help Better Address Mental Health Challenges

Researchers from North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T University have developed a prototype software system that aims to help policymakers and healthcare providers better address mental health challenges facing Hispanic populations across the United States. Read More

November 9, 2020

North Carolina State University

New President Appointed at Upstate Medical University

The State University of New York on Wednesday named Dr. Mantosh Dewan as president of Upstate Medical University, effective immediately. Read More

November 9, 2020

Dr. Mantosh J. Dewan

UO, OSU Start Door-To-Door TRACE Community COVID-19 Testing

The Eugene area is one step closer to understanding how widespread COVID-19 is in the community. On Saturday, teams from Oregon State University and the University of Oregon went into neighborhoods to conduct voluntary community testing for the virus through the TRACE Community program. Read More

November 9, 2020

Oregon State University

Dr. Colleen Koch Named First Female Dean of UF College of Medicine With Goals of Increased Collaboration

UF College of Medicine announced its first female dean, Dr. Colleen Koch, Oct. 30, becoming the fifth UF Health college to be led by a woman. Read More

November 9, 2020

Dr. Colleen G. Koch

Biden Implores Americans to Wear Masks Amid Vaccine Progress

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday implored Americans to wear masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus, even as he cheered news about the promising development of a vaccine being developed by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Read More

November 9, 2020

Photo; Carolyn Kaster, Associated Press

President-Elect Joe Biden Taps Former Surgeon General, Former FDA Commissioner, Yale Doctor to Lead COVID Task Force

President-Elect Joe Biden has reportedly named former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner David Kessler and Yale University’s Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith as co-chairs of a 12-person COVID-19 task force. Read More

November 9, 2020

Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

More Rapid Tests Are Here. There’s No National Strategy to Use Them

A wealth of new COVID-19 tests could soon help states more broadly track people in schools, dense workplaces and vulnerable populations. In October, the supply of rapid-result COVID-19 tests, also known as antigen tests, shot up to more than 150 million — six times the number of tests of any kind performed in August and […]

November 2, 2020

‘Stressed And Overwhelmed’: Hawaii’s College Students Confront The Pandemic

As a pandemic check-in every week, University of Hawaii public health professor Denise Nelson-Hurwitz asks her freshman and sophomore students to anonymously submit words that describe their feelings as they work from home. The colorful word cloud that pops up on her screen displays “stressed” and “overwhelmed” every time. Read More

November 2, 2020

University of Hawaii

UW Campuses Grapple with Whether Reopening Led to Community Spread of COVID-19

Wisconsin colleges and universities are confronting the uncomfortable question of how much their decision to reopen this fall at least partially drove some spread of the coronavirus to their communities. In a new study that has not yet been formally peer-reviewed, researchers at Gundersen Health System found genetic links between large outbreaks among La Crosse college […]

November 2, 2020