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Northeastern dismisses 11 first-year students for partying

The students were caught violating COVID-19 distancing requirements; their $36,500 tuition for the semester will not be refunded.

This college pledge will totally solve everything

Students, please sign this and we can keep pretending this isn’t going to be a disaster.

When your dorm room is at the W, student housing offers a dose of the high life

Colleges are renting out entire floors of hotels to provide socially distanced housing.

COVID-19 thrusts college presidents into the hot seat

Traditionally, university presidents are behind-the-scenes managers and fund-raising gurus. But the coronavirus pandemic has thrust them into the glare of public scrutiny, forcing them to make agonizing choices about whether and how to reopen this fall.

Welcome to college! Please stay in your room. Alone
Most colleges are requiring arriving students to stay alone in their dorm rooms for some period of time until they test negative for COVID-19.

Emerson student gives dorm tour during quarantine
Tristen Pon, a student at Emerson College, gives a tour of his dorm room and describes what it's like to quarantine when moving to campus.

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Tufts dental school lays off staff, faculty, and suspends certain community programs

Its the university's first layoffs due to the pandemic.

Justice Department increasing attacks on affirmative action in college admissions

The department's complaint last week that Yale University discriminated against Asian American and white applicants in its admissions process opens a new front in the Trump administration’s fight against affirmative action, legal experts say.

Brockton mayor imposes curfew with fines of up to $500

Mayor Robert F. Sullivan issued an order Friday requiring all residents and visitors to stay home from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. unless they are providing or receiving “essential services” as defined by state Covid-19 guidelines.

Northeastern warns students: Don’t even think about parties

In an effort to preempt a COVID-19 outbreak among students this semester, Northeastern University on Friday sent stern e-mails to 115 freshmen and their parents warning them against partying, after a social media poll indicated those students planned to party when they arrived on campus.

Can colleges ensure off-campus parties don’t turn into super-spreader events?

With thousands of college students moving into the Boston area in the next few weeks, neighbors are growing increasingly worried about who will police large off-campus gatherings and make sure that student parties don’t turn into coronavirus super-spreader events.

Colleges are asking students to sign waivers and consent agreements if they want to return to campus

The forms have some students and legal experts worried that the colleges are shifting potential blame to students and trying to protect themselves from lawsuits, even as they invited thousands to return.

Boston University criticized for timing of release of new policy on conferring degrees posthumously

Boston University was criticized on social media Wednesday for the timing of an announcement, just as students prepare o return to campus amid the Covid19 pandemic. A university spokesman apologized for the "insensitive timing" of the announcement.

Community colleges see opening in changed higher ed world

With the traditional on-campus four-year college experience currently unavailable at many schools due to restrictions related to the coronavirus but price disparities remaining the same, Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges Council of Presidents Chair Jim Mabry believes the community college experience might "appeal to a wider range of students."