As coronavirus infections rage across the U.S., we asked the experts how families and students should manage the risks of the holiday break.

With many classrooms and dormitories lightly used or even empty during this strange, pandemic-shadowed fall term, pressure is mounting for colleges and universities to bring more students to campus in the next semester despite the recent surge of the coronavirus.

Local school districts, public universities and private colleges will spend the next couple of days trying to figure out how to put all their classes online in a process mirroring last spring's sudden shutdown.

Upper-class veterans serve as peer sponsors to help new students transition from military life to higher education.

University outbreaks are significant contributors to the pandemic. And the campus paper might be the only one left to cover them.

The experiences of student parents pursuing a college education amid the COVID-19 pandemic was the focus of last week’s Achieving the Dream Student Parent Success Summit. Leaders, speakers and attendees across all disciplines at educational institutions and community-based organizations provided equitable recommendations to develop campus programs/policies that support student parents.

The average completion rate for students who first enrolled in public community colleges in fall 2016 rose to a record high of 33.7% – up from 30.1% the prior year – based on new data from the U.S. Education Department. 

Dave Closson, director of the Mid-America Prevention Technology Transfer Center, discusses his experience returning to his college campus as a student after serving in Iraq in his View From the Field article.