Reported by EdSurge, we may have made the challenge of spinning up new online classes this year harder than we needed it to be. Because many of our faculty hold a belief that their course needs to be all theirs. But with thousands of faculty teaching similar courses, and countless organizations creating articles, podcasts, videos and websites about your course’s topic, you don’t have to start from scratch.

Reported by Education Dive, Louisiana and Texas have moved toward policies requiring high school seniors to either complete or formally decline the FAFSA as part of the college admissions process, in hopes of ensuring more low-income students will qualify for Pell Grants and unlock their college affordability pathway.

Reported by Forbes, 10 members of the Colorado State University football team alleged their coaches asked them not to report coronavirus symptoms due to the potentially negative team ramifications of having to quarantine.

Reported by The New York Times, The University of Iowa, facing a $75 million budget shortfall due to the pandemic, recently welcomed students back. In Iowa City, with 75,000 residents, more than 26,000 are also university employees, and 30,000 are students. And now, the entire city is now the center of a pandemic hotspot.

Reported by Education Dive, Dixie State University has discounted certain courses to only $20 a credit for unemployed students, short-term programs designed to help both their graduates and brand new students upskill through stackable credentials while they look for their next opportunity.

Reported by BuzzFeed News, Northeastern University is doing so through incredibly tough penalties for non-compliance, and has suspended 11 first-year students for the remainder of the semester after they were found together, a breach of the institution’s coronavirus policies. These students will not be eligible for a refund on their semester tuition, costing $36,543.

Reported by Education Dive, with many states having quarantine orders for out-of-state visitors, how can our campuses welcome back our traveling students this fall?

Reported by Education Dive, as we seek to figure out technology solves for this next chapter and challenge of online learning across higher education, let’s make sure we understand what others have built and tested already.

Reported by Education Dive, the trend in design planning for the college campus over the last 10 years has focused on conversations about “maker spaces”, and co-learning environments where students can study, learn, and work with their peers and instructors.

Reported by Inside Higher Ed, this will often depend on what the student’s institution was focused on this summer. Many institutions spent the last few months figuring out how to make in-person learning work by any means possible, even if that meant a very last-minute reversal as they admitted that a truly safe return was improbable due to their state’s recent case spikes.