With pre-season voluntary football practices leading to alarming numbers of new coronavirus cases, some schools have reconsidered their college athletic programs for the upcoming fall semester. On Wednesday the Ivy League postponed their fall college sports season until 2021, while on Thursday the Big Ten Conference announced that teams would play conference-only schedules should college sports resume in the fall. [...]
With coronavirus cases on the rise in the United States, colleges are reevaluating their plans for the fall 2020 semester. Some schools have decided to bring a percentage of students back to campus – only for those students to engage in the same online learning that their off-campus peers would. [...]
College admission requirements have already changed for the Class of 2021, as many schools have announced test-optional policies for the upcoming application period in the wake of widespread SAT and ACT test cancellations due to the coronavirus. Now, college admission deans have teamed up to sign a statement of empathy to rising high school seniors. Titled “Care Counts in Crisis”, this statement answers the questions of what college admissions teams are looking for in the applications of students who have been affected by the pandemic. [...]
