Several universities offer free courses on contact tracing
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The COVID-19 pandemic has created a need for tens of thousands of contact tracers — and some colleges are stepping in to help fill that need by offering free introductory online classes open to the public.
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Mariela Guadarrama was ecstatic to finish her first semester last fall at the University of Houston. The first in her family to attend college, she did well on her first-semester exams and chose classes for the spring as her parents cheered her on.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Nearing the end of his tenure in Congress, Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the Senate education committee, proposed excusing those with no income from making student loan payments, as well as enacting one of his longtime goals: simplifying the forms used to apply for federal student aid.
Read More about Senate education committee head proposes simplifying student federal aid applications and postponement of loan paymentsMore colleges lean toward online-only classes in the fall
INSIDE HIGHER ED — As several more colleges announce plans to educate students mostly virtually this fall, a new database shows that’s the way the decisions are trending nationally.
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U.S. NEWS — THIS MONTH MARKS THE first birthday of the digital LSAT. Its inaugural year brought growing pains and frustration even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the replacement of in-person tests with the remotely administered LSAT-Flex.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Professors believe students cheat more online, and colleges ramped up use of detection tools amid shift to remote instruction this spring. Better assessment and student engagement would be more effective, experts say.
Read More about How to prevent cheating in online classes through teaching and assessmentNortheastern Law Community Business Clinic assists small businesses navigate reopening and COVID19 guidelines
NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — Hector Plaza and Francheska López-Rivera celebrated the opening of Red City Fitness with much fanfare last August. But seven months later, their Allston-based studio, which offers personal and partner training and group exercise classes, was forced to shutter its doors following Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s orders in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Read More about Northeastern Law Community Business Clinic assists small businesses navigate reopening and COVID19 guidelinesReopening campuses likely to disproportionately affect communities of color
INSIDE HIGHER ED — As the Trump administration leaned on governors to reopen their states’ schools and a U.S. House subcommittee debated whether to give colleges the additional billions they say they need, the head of the University of Southern California’s Race and Equity Center urged lawmakers to take steps to make sure resuming campus learning…
Read More about Reopening campuses likely to disproportionately affect communities of colorAALS and other higher education associations join brief challenging ICE directive on international students in online classes
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — ACE and 70 other higher education associations filed a brief this morning supporting the first of several legal challenges to the Trump administration’s new directive which, among other things, prohibits international students from remaining in the United States if their colleges hold courses online-only this fall as the country continues dealing with the…
Read More about AALS and other higher education associations join brief challenging ICE directive on international students in online classesDHS and ICE rescind policy barring international students from online classes
TECH CRUNCH — The Trump administration has backed down from plans to revoke visas of international students studying in the U.S. whose schools planned to provide their classes exclusively online in the fall because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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