(5/7) Historic Decline in U.S. Births Signals More Enrollment Troubles

(4/29) Undergraduate Enrollments This Spring See Steepest Drop Since Pandemic Began

(3/31) U. of Pittsburgh Orders Students to Shelter in Place After Positive Cases in 13 Dorms

(3/25) Students’ Going Straight to College in 2020 Declines 6.8%

(3/17) Citing Pandemic, Mills College to Stop Awarding Degrees

(3/11) 4.5% dip in undergraduate attendance this spring semester, compared with the same time last year; Overall enrollment down 2.9 percent

(3/9) Enrollment Managers Are Flying Blind: Almost all instruments colleges would normally use to predict fall enrollments are broken

(2/15) For Town & Gown, a Pandemic Pressure Test: One college learned the hard way.

(2/19) The Great Contraction — Cuts alone not enough to turn colleges’ around

(1/31) Swift Vaccinations, a ‘Normal’ Spring, and Other Wishful Thinking

(1/31) Colleges' Spring-Reopening Plans: Out of nearly 3000 colleges, 3% are fully online. 2% are fully in person. 25% are undetermined

(1/23) U. of Michigan Tells Students to Stay Home After More Transmissible Variant Appears

(1/8) Where Campuses Reopened, Covid-19 Cases Spiked. Where Colleges Went Remote, They Declined

(12/17) Fall’s Enrollment Decline Now Has a Final Tally. Here’s What’s Behind It

(12/16) Campuses Say Their Fall Terms Were Safe. One Student Felt Anything But

(12/11) Colleges Are Canceling Spring Break

(12/7) Biden’s Pick to Lead CDC Criticized College Reopenings: Article link

(12/7) Mistakes Were Made: Reviewing a curious year of contrition in higher education

(12/3) The 5 Biggest Lessons About How Coronavirus Spreads on Campus

(12/3) U of Colorado to Reduce Tenure-Track Faculty, Add Instructors

(11/30) Colleges Grapple With Grim Financial Realities, augur a precarious spring

(11/16) Covid-19 Caused International Enrollments to Plummet This Fall. They Were Already Dropping.

(11/12) Undergraduate Enrollment Worsens as Pandemic Drags On

(11/12) Colleges Ask Professors to Return to the Classroom. Their Answer? That’s ‘Reckless.’

(11/10) Colleges Have Shed a Tenth of Their Employees Since the Pandemic Began

(11/06) At Washing State U, Covid-19 Was Scarce. Then the Students Came Back

(10/30) Universities Replay Fall Plans For Spring—Two Change

(10/29) Moody’s Forecasts Widespread Drop in Tuition Revenue—Why it Matters

(10/23) U. of Dayton 18-yr-old Student Dies From Covid-19

(10/23) Why More Colleges Are Testing Off-Campus Students

(10/20) ‘It’s Negligence’: U of Michigan Students Ordered to ‘Stay in Place’ After Covid-19 Cases Surge

(10/15) Permanent Budget Cuts Are Coming—outlook dim even before the pandemic

(10/15) Fall 2020’s Freshman Enrollment Dives 16%

(10/14) U. of Florida Halts Practices as 19 Players Test Positive

(10/12) 5 Big Worries of College Presidents

(10/12) Nightmare Scenario: Public Colleges’ Already-Strained Finances Await budget-busting cuts

(10/12) Colleges Pledged to Follow the Science but are Compromised by State Politics

(10/6) “Any Hope of Federal Stimulus for Colleges Appears to Die With Trump Tweet”

(10/6) Pandemic Has Pushed Hundreds of Thousands of Workers Out of Higher Ed, & Faster than Ever Recordedd

(10/3) Notre Dame’s President Went Unmasked at White House, Then Tested Positive. Now He’s Under Fire.

(9/25) Have College Students Spread C-19 Beyond Campuses? It May Be Too Early to Tell

(9/24) A First Look at Fall Enrollment Shows a 2.5% Dip Among Undergraduates

(9/24) These Colleges Are Winning the Fight Against Covid-19 — at Least for Now

(9/18) Covid-19 Pushes RA’s to the Breaking Point: Some Are Striking, Others Quit.

(9/17) ‘A Scene Out of Gladiator’: Big Ten Football Players Get Daily Coronavirus Tests, but Other Students Don’t

(9/09) 20-yr-old Football Player at Cal U. of Pennsylvania Dies of Covid-19

(9/07) Health Experts Warn Colleges Not to Send Students Home. But What if Quarantine Spaces Run Out?

(9/03) What Outbreaks on 3 Campuses Say About the Pandemic This Fall—” leaders should plan as though infection will move into the surrounding town”

(9/03) How Covid-19 Exposed the Cracks in a Public-Private Housing Deal

(9/01) Link: James Madison U. Flips to Online Instruction

(9/01): Colleges use Student ‘Ambassadors’ to Enforce Social Distancing

(8/31): Mayors of college towns explain why they're so alarmed by student behavior: 'Let's Not Live a Lie'

(8/27) UMass Link: Announcement Furloughing 850 Employees

(8/27) U. of Michigan Is Reopening—City Is Bracing for Disaster

(8/27) A ‘Palpable Sense of Fear’ as Covid Cases Soar at a College in Rural Georgia

(8/27) Some Colleges Planned Early for an Online Fall. Here’s What They Learned

(8/26) Blame Pollyanna Presidents When C-19 Plans Fail: Too many college leaders aren't doing enough while shifting responsibility to students

U. of Oregon Goes Online for Fall: Chronicle Link

Colleges Are Making Late Calls to Shut Campuses. Is It All About the Money?

Colleges are Endangering Students Like Me: They want us Back but they Haven’t Lived Up to their Public-Health Promises

The Student-Blaming has begun

Baylor Steps Up Police Patrols to Curb Partying, local TV reports

Chapel Hill and Notre Dame Are Just the Beginning

Colleges Hoped for an In-Person Fall. Now the Dream Is Crumbling

UNC Pulls the Plug on In-Person Fall. Will Other Campuses Follow?

Students Flock to Gap-Year Programs — College Enrollments Could Suffer

Life in the Quarantine Dorms: Bad food, endless boredom

New List of Colleges’ Reopening Plans (continuously updated)

Facing a Risky Fall, Students Ask: How Much Do I Trust My Classmates?

Stanford Calls Off Plan to House Students on Campus

Harvard Sees 340 First-Year Deferrals; Syracuse Suspends Students Over Quarantine Rule

Johns Hopkins Goes Fully Remote for Fall, Urges Students Not to Come to Campus

More Than 400,000 Students Leave Their States for College. Here’s How They Could Carry Covid-19 With Them

Smith COllege: Announcing a Change to Our Fall 2020 Plan

Students Aren’t Just Leaving Greek Life. They Want to End It

The Bad Science of Reopening: Many Campuses’ Testing Policies Fall Short

UNC System Faculty and Staff Prepare Lawsuit to Delay Opening

Its Plan Is Risky, Its Community Is Vulnerable, and Cases Are Surging. Why Is This University Reopening?

Our relationship with tests is unraveling. Why is everyone so conflicted about it?

Students Are Spreading Covid-19 Off Campus. Here’s How Colleges Can Stop It

Plexiglass Won’t Save Us: It’s a mistake to prioritize opening up in the fall over improving online education

Colleges Hoped for an In-Person Fall. Now the Dream is Crumbling

More States Are Looking at Consolidating Their Public Colleges. Does It Work?

Athletic Seasons Are Canceled. Student Activities Are Virtual. But at Some Colleges, Fees Won’t Change

Canceling the College-Football Season Isn’t Enough

Colleges Face a No-Win Dilemma: To Cut or Not to Cut Tuition?

(4/29) National Student Clearinghouse Research Center: Undergraduate Enrollment in Idaho Declines 2nd year in a row (2020 & 2021)

(4/2) New York Times: Colleges That Serve the Working Class lose students as experts worry that inequality in education will increase

(3/13) The News & Observer: Duke University orders ‘stay-in-place’ restrictions on campus to stop Covid spread

(3/5) Washington Post: Big 10 presidents kept return-to-school, football communication from public

(3/1) NY Times: Coronavirus cases continued to emerge by the tens of thousands this year at colleges

(2/18) NY TIMES [audio]: No Parties. No Sports. How Oberlin College Is Surviving the Pandemic

(1/30) NY Times: UC-Davis Tries to Shield Entire City From Coronavirus

(1/9): Stanford Daily: Stanford scraps plans to invite students back after reaffirming them repeatedly

(12/28) New York Times: How the Pandemic Is Imperiling a Working-Class College, but its financial problems were planted years ago

(12/17) Houston Chronicle: Entire Univ. Basketball team had COVID-19 since summer

(12/17) NPR: 'Losing A Generation': Fall College Enrollment Plummets For First-Year Students (Audio Here)

(12/17) National Student Clearinghouse Research Center: Public college enrollment (2- & 4-year combined) declined 4 percent

(12/12) New York Times: in College Towns, Deaths Rose Fast-clear Signs of connection

(12/11) New York Times: College Sports Has Reported at Least 6,629 Virus Cases. There Are Many More. (BSU, 160)

(12/3) The Arbiter: Remote Start of spring term at BSU

(12/2) Idaho Statesman: BSU football game canceled for second time in 5 days

(12/1) Independent Alligator [student paper]: U. of Florida Denies 144 Professors Remote Spring Teaching - Prof calls Move ”Unspoken Blackmail”

(11/28) Idaho Statesman: Mountain West Cancels BSU Football Game 5 Hours before KicKofF as team C-19 spikes

(11/26) The Atlantic: Denial Isn’t Working Out for College Football. C-19 keeps infecting players and disrupting schedules, but schools Act as if the pandemic isn’t happening.

(11/25) New Yorker: Is College Football Making the Pandemic Worse?

(11/16) New York Times: As Occupancy Dwindles, Real estate developers seek opportunities to buy student housing and convert them into apartments for white-collar workers

(11/12) Ivyleague.com: No Competition For Winter Intercollegiate Athletics

(11/11) Billings Gazette: University of Wyoming to move classes online starting Monday

(10/30) CDC: Social Gatherings ‘Negated’ Preventive Measures

(10/29) Idaho Statesman: BSU $1.1M faculty furlough plan follows $15M lost revenue

(10/27) ESPN: Division I College Cancels All sports, including Football, for 2020-21 School Year

(10/26) The Arbiter: BSU to go Online after Rescheduled 2021 Spring Break (April 12-16)

(10/22) Idaho Statesman: BSU reports 16,975 undergraduates W/8.3% Decline In dual credit

(10/22): MSN: Students must show digital C-19 badges

(10/21) Idaho Statesman: U of I fall enrollment down 9.5% due to demographics

(10/21) Washington Post: After a college outbreak, deaths at nursing homes mount

(10/20) 10 higher ed associations sign urgent appeal to Congress-PDF Here

(10/20) Kaplan Ed News: Most Admissions Officers Unimpressed by Colleges’ Reopening Performance

(10/16) Idaho Statesman: BSU reports dozens of new cases

(10/15) National Student Clearinghouse Research Center: Enrollment picture worsens

(10/15) New York Times: As Virus Hits Rural U.S., Numbers May Be Small, but the Impact Is Not

(10/15) Naked Capitalism: College Enrollments Add to Budget Damage

(10/12) CDC: More Evidence That Cases From College Students Migrates to Older Groups

(10/12) Kaiser Health News: COVID Takes Tracking Students to a New Level

(10/12) Morning Caller: pandemic exodus of 1,000 students creates $3.5 million budget hit at Kutztown U

(10/12) East Idaho News: BYU-Idaho issues stern warning about intentionally contracting COVID-19

(10/10) Idaho Statesman: BSU faces financial reckoning

(10/10): New Yorker: What Do Colleges Owe Their Most Vulnerable Students?

(10/9) Idaho Statesman: BSU to increase testing but keep in-person classes after White House report

(10/8) Idaho Statesman: White House Coronavirus Task Force Recommends 3 Idaho Universities, including BSU, go Online Only

(10/8) Syracuse.Com: Groups more than 5 banned at Syracuse U, U-sponsored social activities paused

(10/8) The IthIcan: College Cuts 130 Faculty & Considers Ending Departments

(10/6) NPR: Even In COVID Hot Spots, Many Colleges Aren't Aggressively Testing Students

(10/6) Orlando Sentinel: Another College President—Florida State—Tests Positive

(10/5) New York Times: A Student Dies, and a Campus Gets Serious About virus

(10/5) Seattle Times: Outbreak in UW’s Greek system grows to 163 cases

(10/1) Daily Collegian: 1,277 Penn State on & off campus students Sanctioned Over Safety Violations

(9/30) CNN: seemingly healthy 19-YR-oldcollege student dies of Covid-19

(9/30) CNN: Virus ‘Spread Like Wildfire’ on Notre Dame’s Football Team

(9/28) Orange County Register: all Cal-State Long Beach on-campus students quarantined after 5 test positive

(9/28) Gazette: University of Iowa reports hundreds of C-19 complaints as police respond to house parties

(9/26) ABC: colleges struggle to salvage semester as cases skyrocket and tensions with local health leaders flare

(9/27) IdEdNews: Furloughs and Football--BSU Leaders Discuss Uncertain Fiscal Future

(9/26) Idaho Press: Treasure Valley C-19 housing strategies

(9/25) Idaho Statesman: C-19 case count soars again; how BSU aims to control spread

(9/24) Idaho Statesman: BSU football returns in October

(9/24) Lansing State Journal: Top health official says MSU underreporting COVID cases

(9/23) Chicago Tribune: U of Wisconsin-Madison to restart in-person classes but asks students to move out of dorms if they can

(9/23) New York Times: College Football's Worst Fear: Death of A Player

(9/22) CNN: Colleges knew the risks but they reopened anyway. Here's how they got it all wrong

(9/22) NBC: Parents charged over teen party that sparked coronavirus concerns, led entire school to go remote

(9/15) Idaho Statesman: BSU Jobs & Program Cuts Certain

(9/14) Detroit News: Health Dept Orders Quarantine ordered at 30 houses, incl 23 Michigan State Greek Houses

(9/12) ABC: Police ramping up COVID patrols for off-campus parties at UW-Milwaukee

(9/12) ABC: All Michigan State students asked to quarantine
over 'exponential growth'

(9/11) Idaho Statesman: COVID-19 reaches residential students at BSU

(9/11) CNBC: Fraternities blamed for Covid outbreaks as universities struggle to keep students in class

(9/11) NBC: University threatens campus Closure after cases reported in 24 hrs

(9/11) Washington Post: A group of students knew they had covid-19. They hosted a party over Labor Day anyway.

(9/11) USA Today: 'Astonishingly risky': College cases fuel the nation's hottest outbreaks

(9/10) Mercury News: Cal State will not return to in-person classes for Spring 2021

(9/09) The Hill: Illinois university quarantines entire student body On- & Off-Campus for two weeks

(9/09) USA Today: 'So much for honor': Despite COVID cases, college students partied Labor Day weekend away

(9/09) New York Times: College Quarantine Breakdowns Leave Some at Risk

(9/06) Time Magazine: Northeastern U dismisses 11 students for c-19 Violations without Refunding $36,500 tuition

(9/06) MSN: NYU Suspends Over 20 Students for Violating COVID Rules

(9/06) New York Times: A New Front in America’s Pandemic-College Towns

(9/05) Associated Press: Nine UW-Madison fraternities and sororities quarantined

(9/05) Politico: Colleges’ dilemma: Fight outbreaks or send sick kids home

(9/04) The Arbiter: BSU expects economic loss 2020-2021

(9/03) New York Times: Tracking Coronavirus Cases at U.S. Colleges and Universities

(8/26) The Oregonian: U of Oregon Moves fall classes online

(8/26) KIVI-6: State Board of Education-new temporary Counts students learning remotely for average daily attendance

(8/25) The Arbiter: enrollment numbers expected to Drop as BSU Plans for online Admissions through fall 2021

(8/24) NPR: BSU President on In-Person Classes, C-19 Tests

(8/24) Twitter: “I don’t feel safe on campus”

(8/22) New York Times: Crummy College Quarantine Food Goes Viral: A Lemon as a Side Dish?

Washington Post: My university botched the pandemic. What does that say about how it sees its students and community?

CNN: Syracuse University suspends 23 students after 'incredibly reckless' gathering

The Atlantic: The Corner That State Universities Have Backed Themselves Into

Newsweek: College Students Accuse Schools of Being 'Capitalist Business'

USA Today: Colleges hope off-campus housing doesn't doom fall semester

NBC: Oklahoma State Tracks students : school president says students shouldn't Worry about privacy and the "Orwellian effect" because the data is collected for internal use only

The Atlantic: Colleges Blame Their Students for a lack of personal responsibility

ABC: students demand tuition cuts for Online CLasses

Idaho Statesman: BSU students begin moving in, hoping TO avoid c-19 shutdown

Public Integrity.Org: White House’s Birx recommends robust testing for colleges

Wall Street Journal: Universities Move Classes Online to Prevent C-19 Spread as U.S. reports more than 44,000 new cases; Michigan State, Notre Dame among those switching plan

The Atlantic: Colleges Delude Themselves by letting finances and reputation cloud judgment about when they can safely reopen

Purdue Statement: We’ll expose students whose off-campus parties violate student conduct code demanding social distance

Washington Post: UNC-Chapel Hill pivots to remote teaching after first week

USA TODAY: COVID-19 will hit colleges when students arrive for fall semester. why open at all? Money a factor.

Forbes: 40% Of Freshmen Likely Won’t Attend This Fall

New York Times: 6,600+ Coronavirus Cases Linked to U.S. Colleges, 50 at BSU

Idaho Statesman: Boise State Suspends football season after Mountain West halts fall sports over virus

Washington Post: Thanks to coronavirus and Zoom, we’re looking at the end stages of college as a commodity

Coloradoan: Colorado State athletes, staff say athletic administration is covering up COVID-19 health threat

ESPN: Mid-America Conference postpones all fall sports, including football

Detroit News: Michigan State tells students to Stay home for fall

Uconnhuskies.com: Uof Connecticut Cancels football program for 2020-21

Watchstadium.com: U of Idaho Football Players Don't Want to Play This Fall

NPR Kansas City: What A Pending Football Game Says About COVID-19, The Fate Of Small Colleges And The Towns They Keep Alive

WDRB: U of Louisville sidelined 4 fall sports after 29 positive COVID-19 tests linked to an off-campus party

New York Times: Covid Tests and Quarantines: Colleges Brace for an Uncertain Fall

Open letter from UNC Chapel Hill tenured faculty to undergrads: STAY AT HOME

AXIOS: Northeastern University to require 3 COVID-19 tests before students can go to class

Sports Illustrated: Why A Large Group of Pac-12 Players Are Prepared to Sit Out the Football Season

New York Times: Opt-Outs, Cancellations, & Virus Cases Put Heat on College Football

Players Tribune: College athletes Demand Fair Treatment: #WeAreUnited

BUSINESS INSIDER: Party houses defying C-19 orders may have utilities shut off

KTVB: BSU suspends fraternity for five years

NPR (Audio): Fewer Students Are Going To College. Here's Why That Matters