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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

The order will extend a federal anti-discrimination law to include discrimination based on anti-Semitism. Some worry the policy will be used to stifle criticism of Israel on college campuses.