Reported by Inside Higher Ed, Amherst, Bowdoin, Carleton, Pomona, Swarthmore, and Williams Colleges are teaming up for 1-stop admission events, offering joint virtual events, speaking about the benefits of liberal arts colleges to students, parents, and counselors.

Reported by Education Dive, the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) has asked that public institutions not require entrance exam scores for the 2021-22 academic year.

Reported by Education Dive, the University of Pittsburgh is requiring first-year students to complete a course on anti-black racism. This one-credit course is designed to educate students about the Black experience in America.

Reported by EdSurge, community college has long felt like the hyper-rational economic choice. And yet, despite their affordability, year after year, millions of students would go on to choose a private college counterpart instead.

Reported by Education Dive, a test pilot at the University of Alabama is utilizing the GuideSafe app, developed using Apple and Google tools, to let students know if they’ve been exposed to someone who’s contacted the virus, based on whether or not their phones have been within 6 feet of them for at least 15 minutes within the past two weeks.

Reported by Education Dive, some institutions, such as Pacific Lutheran University and St. Norbert College, are choosing to offer an extra term or year after the student’s expected graduation date for free if they stay enrolled this year.

Reported by Education Dive, a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests such, and that after modeling thousands of scenarios with an institution of 5,000 students, the incredibly high bar of every other day testing with results in 8 hours may be the only way to successfully contain an outbreak.

Reported by Education Dive, a new survey from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) reveals that more university presidents expect to have to implement across-the-board budget and benefit cuts than they did back in March at the beginning of COVID, including a full 88% currently planning layoffs.

Reported by EdSurge, our faculty were fairly forgiving this spring when it came to grading, knowing that everyone was getting used to a very new normal.

Reported by EdSurge, when a student is identified as testing positive for COVID-19, re-tracing their steps on campus can be a fairly easy digital process. A college could see when the student swiped their keycard to enter a building, or when a student’s phone connected to a Wi-FI hotspot. This can provide sophisticated data in terms of whom the student may have been in contact with, with likely more detailed information than the student’s memory.