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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 considers the COVID-19 vaccination program of the University of Florida in the campus and in the surrounding region. Topics discussed include the capacity of the university to conduct a COVID-19 vaccine campaign in light of its expertise and infrastructure, significance of the campaign to the value of higher education, and health challenges facing the students and local community due to the reputation of the state as being open for business and tourism during the pandemic.

The article looks at the voluntary vaccination program of U.S. universities and colleges to address the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. Topics discussed include the plan of the West Virginia University to use the desire of students and employees for a normal campus life to encourage vaccination, decision of Nova Southeastern University in Florida to shift to a voluntary, aspirational goal of 100% vaccination due to the ban on vaccine passports in the state, and the benefits of a voluntary program.

The article features several individuals and their everyday life experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic to examine how the pandemic transformed the lives of students and their families after a year as of March 2021. Among the featured persons are students Jeff Ayisire and Deanna Schwartz, and Valparaiso University president José D. Padilla. Also cited are the number of job losses in higher education institutions in the U.S.

The article discusses how the insufficient preparations at Central Methodist University in Missouri resulted in the high number of students infected with Covid-19 during its fall semester in 2020. Also cited are the failure by the university to practice the best practices to avoid infection like mandatory testing, social distancing, and mask wearing, as well as the comment of university president Roger Drake about the infected students.

The article discusses how the Covid-19 pandemic affected a higher number of older adults when college students returned to in-person learning in the U.S. in August 2020. It cites as example the case of Washington State University (WSU). Also mentioned are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study showing young adults are passing the virus to older people and WSU's efforts to prevent the spread of the virus like conducting testing to students.

The article discusses the surge in COVID-19 cases after college students in the U.S. returned to campuses for the fall semester in 2020. Topics covered include the dynamics of coronavirus transmission at colleges, data suggesting that university cases may be a large portion of the county's overall caseload, and the measures being taken to contain the virus.

The article reports that the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill has announced that it would go all-online for undergraduate instruction. It is noted that the college has reported 135 new coronavirus cases among students and staff. The UNC's administration felt it could not acceptably contain its outbreaks with students remaining in dormitories and classes after it reported four Covid-19 clusters in three days.

Institutions seem to be relying on one of two methods to distribute the emergency student aid. Both have their detractors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]