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College is a major milestone for many U.S. teens, the first time they’ve been on their own

Post University in Waterbury has announced it will remain virtual for the remainder of the 2020-2021 academic year and canceled its winter and spring sports seasons. On Monday school officials announced the move, citing safety concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Athletics are scheduled to start back up in Fall 2021. Student athletes affected by the decision will not lose a…

Gov. Ned Lamont participated in a roundtable discussion on Thursday on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on higher education. The discussion was held at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic at 11:30 a.m. The governor was joined by Connecticut State Colleges and Universities President Mark Ojakian, ECSU President Elsa Nunez, and the commissioner of the Department of Public…

Lacey Allen, Associate Director of Scholarships Strategy at the College Board, explained how your high school senior can get the guidance they need.

Connecticut college students are navigating returning to classes and learning on campus with an uptick in coronavirus cases at some schools.

Taylor talked to Mark Ojakian, President of Connecticut State Colleges and Universities, about what they are doing to keep everyone safe on campus.

Students have had to make some major adjustments in the classroom since the coronavirus pandemic struck last spring. For high school seniors there’s one more big change: the college admissions process. With SAT tests canceled, and college tours suspended, picking where they’re going to spend the next four years has never been harder for some students. NBC Connecticut spoke...

As college students across New England return to campus for the fall semester, they’re being tested for the coronavirus. And so far, more than 700 have tested positive at nearly 80 schools in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. A New York Times database is tracking all of the coronavirus cases at colleges and universities across the…

With the coronavirus spreading through colleges at alarming rates, universities are scrambling to find places to isolate the thousands of students who have caught COVID-19 or been exposed to it

Students are making their way back to a very different Connecticut College this week. “We have been rebuilding the college in a whole new form over the course of the summer,” said Victor Arcelus, dean of students at Connecticut College in New London. “We have been trying to develop strategies and approaches that continue to focus on safety.” By the…

Students at Connecticut College returning to campus will go through some stringent testing protocols.

During his senior year of high school, Taran Richardson was accepted to 65 colleges and was offered more than $1 million in scholarship money. Now, the 18-year-old is preparing to start his first semester of college from his mom’s house in Indianapolis. Richardson enrolled at Howard University, a Historically Black College in Washington D.C., but instead of moving out and…

The University of Notre Dame and Michigan State universities have become the latest colleges to move classes online because of the coronavirus

California State University (CSU) recently voted to require ethnic studies or social justice classes a requirement for graduation as the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have propelled social unrest and injustice issues to the forefront.

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, a growing number of U.S. colleges have said their campuses will remain closed through the fall semester.

Connecticut has joined several other states in a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s plan to force foreign students who will be taking classes online this fall due to the pandemic to leave the U.S.

Laith Mekouar was a freshman at James Madison University when the coronavirus pandemic closed his campus back in March. Mekouar discusses how his college experience will change in the fall and how he feels about returning to school with coronavirus cases rising.

Texas’s Tarleton State University and other small schools are getting a boost in enrollment as the coronavirus pandemic makes traveling to large, distant schools less appealing to students. The university’s president James Hurley joins LX News to discuss the trend.

As coronavirus cases start to surge in more than 30 states across the U.S., some professors are pushing back when it comes to returning to campus for in-person teaching, NBC News reports. More than 50% of colleges and universities have announced they will be hosting professors or students back on campus in the next few months, per data tracked by the Chronicle of...