Reported by EdSurge, approximately 70% of afterschool providers closed during the pandemic. Low-income families who depend on these services to keep up and get ahead academically have been set back during COVID. All while high-income families are increasing their extracurricular supplements through online courses, classes and programs.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, only 26% of ACT-tested students met all four ACT College Readiness Benchmarks this year, with half of underserved students (low-income, minority, and/or first-gen college students) meeting none of these benchmarks.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, that’s why Hampden-Sydney traded in their viewbook for a magazine. Stories. Articles. Humor. And college advice.

Reported by Education Dive, slightly more than half of college presidents surveyed by the American Council on Education (ACE) claim that their total enrollment is lower this fall than a year ago.

Reported by Education Dive, through Lorain County Community College’s MyUniversity program, students can graduate their area high school with 71 free college credits through a dual enrollment program, pre-accepted by colleges throughout the country, leaving only a few semesters left to graduate with a full bachelor’s degree.

Reported by Education Dive, a new report by NPR and Davidson College’s College Crisis Initiative found that only a quarter of mid-sized colleges or larger with enrollments higher than 5,000 students offering in-person classes are also testing students en masse or even through random screenings.

Reported by Education Dive, a recent announcement about a student death at Appalachian State University brought up this ethical question when the university’s death announcement included facts about the student’s off-campus residence and their only-online course enrollments. This left those in the campus community seeing the announcement also as the institution’s legal defense at the same time.

Reported by EdSurge, faculty pausing mid-lecture to remind a student they need to be wearing pants while on ZOOM isn’t even the weirdest classroom norm being violated or determined this fall.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, a new Tyton Partners survey shows that faculty who believe online learning is effective has increased from 39% to 49% since May.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, while many institutions have put together some very strong transfer “welcome” programs to try and match the first-year experience their traditional students receive, a new study published in Educational Researcher suggest that this experience really needs to happen during the student’s first term at their community college instead.