Report: COVID-19 pandemic heightened inequities in colleges
INSIDE HIGHER ED — A new report from the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University explores how students’ college experiences during the pandemic varied by race and ethnicity.
Read More about Report: COVID-19 pandemic heightened inequities in collegesMost colleges remove COVID-19 vaccine requirements
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Going into the 2021-2022 academic year, hundreds of U.S. colleges and universities mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for students, which had been released the previous December and gradually become accessible to the public.
Read More about Most colleges remove COVID-19 vaccine requirementsHow law schools have implemented remote learning following the COVID-19 pandemic
LSAC — The option to learn online opens access to students, particularly those who may be balancing other obligations like family and work, who do not have ready access to transportation, or who may live in areas that are far from their desired law school. Importantly, law schools now have new freedom to deliver significantly…
Read More about How law schools have implemented remote learning following the COVID-19 pandemicHow remote work policies have influenced disability law
BLOOMBERG LAW — Federal judges are somewhat less likely to side with employers that deny requests for telework as a disability accommodation after the Covid-19 pandemic sparked a remote work revolution.
Read More about How remote work policies have influenced disability lawMany women of color reenrolled in college during the COVID-19 pandemic
NPR — During the pandemic, the overall number of students in college dropped sharply, but nearly 1 million people who had left school before COVID actually went back mid-pandemic. And among those students, women of color led the way. Kirk Carapezza of member station GBH in Boston reports.
Read More about Many women of color reenrolled in college during the COVID-19 pandemicUniversities prepare for flu season
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Influenza outbreaks have always been of particular concern on college campuses, where close-quarters living, crowded lecture halls and fluid social circles make airborne transmission especially easy. But the past two flu seasons were almost nonexistent on campuses, thanks to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic—which kept them empty—or masking and social…
Read More about Universities prepare for flu seasonFlorida Supreme Court hears breach of contract case after COVID-19 campus shutdown
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Florida state Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would hear a lawsuitagainst the University of South Florida over campus shutdowns and remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More about Florida Supreme Court hears breach of contract case after COVID-19 campus shutdownThe pros and cons of college professors recording their lectures
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The pandemic may be fading, but some students still need accommodations and flexibility, proponents say. Others argue that recorded lectures inhibit class discussion, compromise privacy and threaten faculty intellectual property rights.
Read More about The pros and cons of college professors recording their lecturesBrooklyn Law students vote to expand Covid-19 vaccine exemption policy for students and faculty with disabilities
BROOKLYN PAPER — A number of students, staff and alumni at the Brooklyn Law School are fighting to change the institution’s COVID vaccine disability exemption policy after at least two students say they were forced to leave the school temporarily or permanently when their medical exemptions were denied.
Read More about Brooklyn Law students vote to expand Covid-19 vaccine exemption policy for students and faculty with disabilitiesColleges prepare for potential spread of monkeypox on campuses as outbreak grows
ABC NEWS — Colleges and universities have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of students this fall, heralding a much-anticipated return to normalcy on campuses, with COVID-19 cases beginning to abate again across the country. However, following the nation’s growing monkeypox outbreak, there are growing concerns from health experts that this second virus could once again…
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