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| 8 Ways to Improve Your Online Course | Anxiety is in the air. So, too, is anger, depression, bewilderment, and disappointment. With their lives in limbo, college students, with good reason, fear that their family’s finances, their academic plans, and, indeed, their future have been upended. Insecurity… |
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| How The Coronavirus Has Upended College Admissions | As stressful as it always is for students applying to college, this year it's all that — and then some — for the admissions officials trying to decide whether to admit them. Because of the pandemic, many students will be applying without standardized test scores and several other metrics… |
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| Skepticism Greets Putin's Announcement Of Russian Coronavirus Vaccine | President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday that Russia has become the first country to approve a vaccine to prevent coronavirus infection, saying one of his daughters has already received a dose of the new prophylaxis even though that it is still under development. The announcement of… |
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| America’s Obesity Epidemic Threatens Effectiveness of Any COVID Vaccine | For a world crippled by the coronavirus, salvation hinges on a vaccine. But in the United States, where at least 4.6 million people have been infected and nearly 155,000 have died, the promise of that vaccine is hampered by a vexing epidemic that long preceded COVID-19: obesity. |
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| Keep Campus Closed - What Higher Ed is Too Afraid to Say | For the collective well-being of people in this country, higher education institutions must not reopen this fall. This virus does not care about our efforts to find creative ways to reopen schools. It doesn't care about paychecks or football or res life. It will continue to harm… |
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| Previous vaccines and masks may hold down Covid-19, some researchers say | As US leaders work to control the spread of coronavirus, researchers across the country - and globe - are working to answer the mysteries that remain around infections. One of those mysteries: why the experience can be so different from person to person. One expert says the answer… |
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| Higher education during a pandemic: Giving it the old college try | According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, only about one-quarter (23.5%) of the country's colleges and universities are planning to hold classes primarily in-person this fall. Slightly more (27.8%) will be mostly online, and 16% will be a hybrid of the two. And with weeks to go before… |
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| Nervous Freshmen, Nervous Colleges | Colleges that have been struggling to get their yield rate equivalent (or at least close) to last year's may be in for a rude awakening. SimpsonScarborough is releasing a survey tomorrow of incoming freshmen who aspired to attend a four-year residential college that finds that 40 … |
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| Scientists tested 14 types of masks — here are the ones that worked and didn’t | Bandannas, gaiters and knitted masks are some of the least effective face coverings for preventing the spread of coronavirus, according to a new study. Researchers at Duke University made the discovery while testing 14 different types of masks, according to … |
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| New report highlights mixed trends in COVID-19 activity, positive impacts of face coverings and distancing | Today the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) released the latest, which reflects varying COVID-19 trends in different regions and age… |