Gonzaga Law students advocate for changes to COVID-19 protocols
KHQ.COM — Several Gonzaga Law School students are coming forward demanding better COVID precautions and policies. They say people aren’t wearing masks, contact tracing isn’t happening, and most importantly students can’t quarantine because their classes aren’t available over zoom. If law students miss 20% of their classes, that means they can’t take the all-important bar exam to become…
Read More about Gonzaga Law students advocate for changes to COVID-19 protocolsPace Law professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer appointed co-chair of New York State Bar Association task force on the post-COVID legal profession
PACE UNIVERSITY — Professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer will co-chair the new lawyers and law students group for the New York State Bar Association’s newly formed task force formed to study the lessons of the COVID-19 crisis and make recommendations for “new ways of doing business that would benefit the entire legal community.”
Read More about Pace Law professor Leslie Garfield Tenzer appointed co-chair of New York State Bar Association task force on the post-COVID legal professionYale Law cancels Alumni Weekend due to pandemic
YALE NEWS — Given the recent surge in the delta variant of COVID-19, the University is cancelling in-person components of many of its events that attract large crowds from outside New Haven, including the Yale Law School reunion.
Read More about Yale Law cancels Alumni Weekend due to pandemicPandemic forcing long-term changes to academic conferences
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Like colleges and universities, scholarly associations had been looking forward to something resembling a normal academic year. That meant scheduling in-person annual conferences again, after more than year of virtual programs. The Delta variant has of course frustrated those plans and led some organizations to transition to virtual meetings once more.
Read More about Pandemic forcing long-term changes to academic conferencesCollege leaders discuss strategies on campus vaccine mandates
NPR — A growing number of colleges and universities are requiring vaccines for everyone on campus as the fall semester begins, but Cleveland State University is trying something different. While students living on campus need to be fully vaccinated, everyone else gets to make that choice for themselves. University officials argue that their plans for…
Read More about College leaders discuss strategies on campus vaccine mandatesColleges consider vaccine incentives and mandates
THE WASHINGTON POST — As a new semester begins amid a resurgence of the coronavirus, 26 of the 50 largest public university campuses in the U.S. are not mandating that students be vaccinated, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Approaches on enforcement vary widely even among universities that do have vaccine mandates, with…
Read More about Colleges consider vaccine incentives and mandatesCalifornia bill could expand federal food benefits to students
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The California Legislature passed a measure Thursday that would extend federal food assistance benefits to more college students in the state. The new measure, authored by California assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, would require public colleges and universities to get qualifying academic programs approved by the California Department of Social Services as employment and training…
Read More about California bill could expand federal food benefits to studentsFederal data shows decline in college enrollment
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Preliminary data released by the federal government today reaffirmed that colleges and universities lost hundreds of thousands of students last year as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on fall 2020 enrollments, particularly at community colleges. The new data, which also break down enrollment by state, shed light on some of the other…
Read More about Federal data shows decline in college enrollmentCollege student survey finds COVID protocols differ across regions
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Faculty and staff members reported stark differences in their colleges’ fall semester COVID-19 protocols and plans across institutions and geographic regions, according to a new national survey.
Read More about College student survey finds COVID protocols differ across regionsPandemic drives growth in number of students taking classes partially or entirely online
INSIDE HIGHER ED — It won’t be clear for a good while whether and how much the last year’s grand, unplanned experiment with remote learning has permanently altered the landscape for using technology to deliver college instruction. A first step, though, is getting good data on how patterns shifted during the last year — and that…
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