colleges

How are college presidents handling funding threats? Preparing for the worst

4:15am April 04, 2025

by Elissa Nadworny

University leaders are under pressure to comply with federal executive orders and policy changes or risk losing federal funding. Some college presidents say that makes their jobs more challenging.

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As enrollment in online college grows, students wonder: Why does it cost more?

5:00am March 15, 2025

Rather than lowering the price, some universities use online courses to subsidize everything else.

The closure of Lincoln College is a shocking turnaround for a small Illinois college that welcomes first-generation students and qualifies as a predominantly Black institution.

Lincoln College closes after 157 years, blaming COVID-19 and cyberattack disruptions

1:50pm May 10, 2022

by Bill Chappell

It's a shocking turnaround for a small Illinois college that welcomes first-generation students and qualifies as a predominantly Black institution.

Middlebury College in Vermont suspended a study abroad program in Russia at the end of February citing safety concerns, urging the 12 students to return home. Among them was Zavier Ridgley, who was studying in Moscow when he was told to book a flight home

U.S. colleges are cutting their partnerships and financial ties with Russia

2:44pm March 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

Colleges are pulling students from study abroad programs in Russia, ending research partnerships and cutting investments as part of a global wave of condemnation over the invasion of Ukraine.

Education

Some colleges go back to virtual classes after surge in virus cases

9:03am January 03, 2022

by Paul Garber

A surge in coronavirus cases has some colleges rethinking in-person classes as students prepare to come back to campus.

Colleges go back to drawing board — again — to fight COVID

4:27am December 15, 2021

by The Associated Press

Many colleges are telling students to prepare for another term of masking, testing and, if cases get bad, limits around social life.

Hollins University was founded in 1842 on the principle that "young women require the same thorough and rigid training as that afforded to young men."

Who belongs at a women's college in 2021? Students want admissions policies to change

5:38pm November 26, 2021

by Melissa Block

Women's colleges have adapted admissions policies for a generation that increasingly identifies as nonbinary. Hollins University's exclusion of nonbinary applicants has raised hackles.

West Virginia Wesleyan College says that about 90% of faculty and staff and "a large percentage of students" have already been vaccinated.

Being Unvaccinated For COVID Will Cost Students At A Small College An Extra $750

12:54pm August 11, 2021

by Scott Neuman

West Virginia Wesleyan College won't require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 — at least not yet. But the small Christian liberal arts school says it will charge students who aren't.

A masked college student walks along a syringe that morphs into a pencil.

More Colleges Say They'll Require Students To Have COVID-19 Vaccines For Fall

12:23pm April 11, 2021

by Elissa Nadworny

More campuses are expected to add the requirement, with potential legal challenges ahead. One key point: Requiring vaccines for infectious diseases is nothing new for many residential colleges.

At Northeastern University, 11 students were caught hanging out together in one room, in violation of bans on having guests in campus housing and on participating in crowded gatherings. They were all kicked off campus and out of their program for the seme

Students Accused Of Breaking College COVID-19 Rules Fight Their Punishments

7:52pm September 17, 2020

by Tovia Smith

As colleges crack down on students accused of violating strict pandemic safety rules, students are lawyering up to fight their punishments.

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