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The article reports that the fundamental task of higher education is to guide students to the degrees that lead to better lives. Topics include considered that the Covid-19 has made that task harder as a semester in Trice's shoes illustrates how and thousands of students are weathering forces as small as a hard-drive crash and as large as a pandemic.

The article reports that highly regulated semester is underway for unvaccinated college students and employees. Topics include considered that before the Covid-19 vaccines were widely available, many campuses mandated masks, required regular or random testing, and barred large gatherings and colleges are developing parallel sets of policies, depending on vaccination status as employees and students who are not fully vaccinated will experience stricter rules.

Their enrollment decisions and ability to pay have been upended. Their preference for being on campus, however, remains intact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Competition in all spheres of student life has ruined the fun of it all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

California State University at San Bernardino is among the few universities of its kind on the quarter system. It's switching to semesters, and that takes a lot of work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's that time of the semester when students start to wonder what they can do to raise their final grades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Because they finish classes about a month behind their peers on the semester calendar, critics say they are at an unexpected disadvantage in their job search. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's not just about inflicting one more test before the semester ends. There are ways to make it meaningful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a number of colleges and universities in the U.S. that have a January or winter term, including Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama, and St. Mary's College of California in Moraga, California.