The positivity rate remains below the state average but some students and staff are not participating in weekly COVID-19 testing.
News Clips
The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) tracks trends and developments in issues related to school climate and conditions for learning through online media sites, blogs, syndication and aggregation services, and other news resources from local, regional, and national media outlets. Browse this ongoing collection of posts to learn about what’s happening in communities near you and across the nation.
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Displaying 5550 News Clips.March 2021
A new report by the Center for Community College Student Engagement sheds more details about the impact of the pandemic on first-time students at community colleges, which have seen staggering… Read more »
A local program is empowering students to make school a better place for everyone. Bully Busters 702, run by Big Keith Bowen, teaches students to speak out and help their fellow student who… Read more »
Chicago Public Schools is partnering with five community groups to rethink school safety without resource officers.
CPS said they concluded the first phase of what they call the Whole… Read more »
Many of the state’s largest public universities said they’re planning to increase access to the COVID-19 vaccines after the governor announced he’s directing the state to expand vaccine… Read more »
Student affairs practitioners shared personal practices and examples on ways to confront inequities within the student conduct process at this year’s NASPA virtual conference.
Have we entered a season of hope for student mental health? The outlook for student well-being may finally be improving with COVID-19 cases going down, vaccinations going up, and more schools… Read more »
Students reflect on what has worked, what has not and what they want from their colleges post-COVID. (Hint: Keep that lecture recording button handy and virtual support options available.)
Enthusiasts for Louisiana’s community colleges and technical programs say they’ll emerge from the Covid-19 era with robust resources and rebounding enrollments.
Enrollment is down almost ten percent across community colleges. This spring, declining enrollment has continued disproportionately impacting Indigenous, Black, and Latino students. We wanted to… Read more »
From grade school to graduate school, developing young minds in close physical proximity halted abruptly in mid-March 2020.
In mid-March in a normal year (remember those?) college seniors would be counting down the days to graduation, administrators would be finalizing commencement ceremony plans and family members… Read more »
With schools nationwide locked down amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health consequences on students have come into a sharp focus. Reuters surveyed school districts nationwide in… Read more »
To provide ongoing relief from the COVID-19 emergency and implement provisions in the American Rescue Plan recently signed by President Biden, the U.S. Department of Education (… Read more »
As its moniker suggests, the madness in March is about much more than basketball. For the past four years, we have also participated in March Madness bracketology. We have done so by creating a… Read more »
West Virginia University has launched a new texting service that is aimed to reinforce safe choices regarding alcohol and to curb binge drinking among students.
Campus administrators say its First Year Experience program has provided support that has kept the vast majority of LACC students enrolled during the pandemic, as other community colleges across… Read more »
A group of Clear Creek ISD high school students has earned statewide recognition from the Texas School Safety Center's School Safety Spotlight Program for their work on the district's Safely… Read more »
Middle school children in Charleston, Missouri are getting a valuable lesson in bullying with a St. Louis area mother on a mission to honor the memory of her daughter.
Campuses hand out gift cards and organize outdoor activities as incentives for students to stay local.
