The Trump administration said it would no longer require international students to attend in-person classes during the coronavirus pandemic in order to remain in the country.
The international scholars the administration was threatening to send home are vital to American innovation and competitiveness.
“The Eyes of Texas,” once sung at minstrel shows, will remain a campus anthem at the University of Texas at Austin, the school announced on Monday.
The virus has infected more than 13 million people and has been detected in nearly every country.
A legal battle between universities and the Trump administration over foreign students and online learning escalated on Monday, ahead of a critical federal court hearing.
Expect increased pressure on other teams to change their nicknames and logos, including the Braves, Indians and Chiefs.
It is still unclear how many students will return to college campuses this fall, but for those who do, mealtime will change dramatically.
Injured and unusable lungs were restored with respirators and pig blood. The procedure one day may increase the supply of organs for transplant.
The world needs you. Here’s your chance.
Uber and Lyft hailed a Cornell paper’s conclusion that their drivers make solid wages. But others have questioned the researchers’ approach.
Xu Zhangrun, a law professor in Beijing known for criticizing the Communist Party, was allowed to go home after being detained a week ago, people familiar with him said.
Prosecutors said Todd and Diane Blake paid $250,000 to fraudulently gain their daughter’s admission to the University of Southern California as a volleyball recruit.
He was a passionate Jesse Jackson delegate at the 1984 Democratic National Convention and, later, a mentor to future politicians like Senator Cory Booker.
Many first-generation, low-income Harvard students feel that the elite institution has failed them.
A briefing packet for federal emergency response teams details the steps schools should take to reopen safely.
Bit by bit, workouts, programs or seasons are canceled by conferences, throwing into question if it is worth having a season at all in a pandemic.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is denying huge batches of relief requests from students whose schools defrauded them. Even those who aren’t denied are getting very little — or sometimes nothing.
The number of wild animals killed by vehicle traffic was down as much as 45 percent in Maine and 21 percent in California, according to a U.C. Davis report.
Harvard and M.I.T. want a court to protect foreign students taking online classes. After a hearing, President Trump said he was ordering a review of universities’ tax-exempt status.
It is not just the N.F.L.’s Washington team that could get a name change. A number of schools are also reconsidering nicknames, though some are resisting any switch.
Women’s suffrage is the story of a political revolution — with all sorts of parallels to today.
A powerful rally during drastically deteriorating economic conditions has left the market richly valued and facing great uncertainty.
The pandemic could shape the world, much as World War II and the Great Depression did.
Watch the doctors and nurses trying to save us from the coronavirus as they risk their own lives — and those of their families — in a new Times documentary on FX and Hulu.
Students, women’s rights and education groups are seeking to delay or derail Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s broad overhaul of rules that govern sexual misconduct claims.
The league’s football teams had been scheduled to participate in some of the most highly anticipated nonconference games of the 2020 season.
The return to studying at an American institution has been thrown into question for an estimated one million international students.
Mr. Harrison was a longtime teacher of music theory and a dean of fine arts and humanities at Hunter College in New York City. He has died of complications of Covid-19.
The Trump administration is putting pressure on school districts to resume in-person learning by the fall.
The league’s decision could be influential for other university presidents as they consider how to handle the coronavirus pandemic. It is the first Division I conference to suspend football for the fall.
Universities opposed a policy that would require students to take at least one in-person class or be denied permission to study in the United States.
The university said in a statement that it faced a $70 million shortfall over the next three years.
In a country where women are often blamed when they are sexually assaulted, the arrest of an Egyptian student has raised hopes for changing attitudes.
Los estudiantes internacionales deberán tomar al menos una clase en persona para mantener sus visas, en un momento en que muchas universidades priorizan la educación en línea ante el peligro de contagio.
For colleges in the middle of the pack, the financial calculus during the pandemic looks very different, with in-person classes on campus a way to survive.
Workers removing a monument in North Carolina found a deteriorated time capsule from 1894. Inside were objects said to belong to Robert E. Lee, though some historians doubt their legitimacy.
No one wants to pay $30,000 per semester for the current experience.
They studied for years to get full-time jobs. Now, they’re right back where they started.
President Trump spearheaded an administration-wide push to pry open the nation’s elementary and secondary schools, the next phase of his effort to get the economy on its feet.
The release of Mary L. Trump’s “Too Much and Never Enough” has been widely anticipated.
International students will be required to take at least one in-person class to keep their visas, at a time when many universities are prioritizing online instruction.
Readers discuss whether college reopening plans are realistic, and the risks facing faculty members, students and campus workers.
Brazilian scientists say the man no longer shows signs of the infection after taking a powerful drug cocktail. But the preliminary results require confirmation.
We now know the names of many of the businesses that received $521 billion in small-business rescue loans. Some of the recipients will raise eyebrows.
To provide some semblance of the campus experience during a pandemic, colleges say large chunks of the student body will have to stay away and study remotely for all or part of the year.
An alumnus has filed a suit to save a fresco at the University of Kentucky that depicts enslaved people; a Black artist whose work is shown with it also wants the mural to stay.
Four first-generation college students in Newark, N.J., tell the story of the pandemic, their uprooted plans — and what they found out.
Xu Zhangrun, who has long taught law at the prestigious Tsinghua University, is one of the few academics in China who have harshly criticized the ruling Communist Party.
Tommy Tuberville, the football coach and leading Republican vying to take on Senator Doug Jones in Alabama, had a tumultuous foray into finance.
Early in the pandemic, much of rural Texas had low case counts and few worries. Now, conservative areas are seeing a surge in cases, but distrust in government mandates endures.
“I was enchanted by her writing,” said Clifford Peterson, who met Carol Ryan during planning for Ramapo College’s 50th anniversary celebration, “by the incredible life she lived, simply enchanted.”
Most universities plan to bring students back to campus. But many of their teachers are concerned about joining them.
Amid a national accounting over racism after George Floyd’s death, at least a dozen schools have revoked admissions offers to incoming students.
Dr. de Sousa focused on the immune system and helped establish a major academic program in her field. She died after testing positive for the novel coronavirus.
The university sent an email to its employees last week saying they would no longer be able to care for children while working remotely. After a backlash, the university clarified its policy.
“She Kills Monsters” is hugely popular in high schools and colleges. Even in lockdown, performers have found novel ways to make the battles come alive.
Please save the partying for next year, health officials advise: This is your morning tip sheet.
After a Black executive board member described racism and classism in the leadership ranks of the College Democrats of America, the president of the organization resigned.
His research helped inspire “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling book on the keys to excelling.
Weight training prompts changes in the nervous system that prime the muscles to get bigger and stronger.
The coronavirus has triggered travel bans that could result in a significant drop in enrollment at top art and design schools.
Students often have little help finding and applying for financial assistance, and miss out on opportunities for affordable higher education.
The consumer advocate calls on the president and the vice president to stand aside in the pandemic fight. Also: Removing Woodrow Wilson’s name; an immigrant’s story; keep your eyes on the child.
Joel Thompson’s “The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed,” written in 2014, is finding new listeners in a summer of unrest.
A proposal to give scientists access to huge data sets and powerful computers.
School may be out indefinitely, but on social media there’s a thriving subculture devoted to the aesthetic of all things scholarly.
The debts our institutions owe to the problematic past can’t just be canceled.
John T. Edge, the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, is urged to step down after longstanding concerns about his leadership.
As they wiggle and undulate, the snakes are transforming their bodies for flight.
Surface air temperatures at the bottom of the world have risen three times faster than the global average since the 1990s.
Bringing millions of students back to campus would create enormous risks for society but comparatively little educational benefit, an economist says.
New rules and design will try to keep New Yorkers safe in the usually crowded plazas, parks and streets.
Opening bars and bringing back football teams have led to new outbreaks. Communities that evolved around campuses face potentially existential losses in population, jobs and revenue.
No Democrat has won or broken even with voters over 65 in two decades. But seniors’ dismay about President Trump could change that.
At Stanford, he created the world’s first successful sleep clinic and taught a popular class on sleep and dreams. (If he caught a student dozing, he’d wake him with a water gun.)
University trustees concluded that Wilson’s “racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college,” Princeton’s president said on Saturday.
Targeted killings and widespread attacks across Afghanistan have sapped brief optimism as peace talks remain stalled.
Time and again, debate over the state’s flag and its Confederate battle imagery faded away. Then college sports leaders threatened to take away some of the biggest games.
The vice president falsely claimed that increased testing “is generating” more cases, among other exaggerations and inaccurate claims.
In a disturbing parallel to H.I.V., the coronavirus can cause a depletion of important immune cells, recent studies found.
Stringent new rules by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are set to take effect on July 1 after the attempt to reverse them was defeated.
As public scrutiny of a secretive panel of scientists heightened, its members nearly buckled under the strain.
The historically black college in Atlanta is one of the first universities to cancel football in 2020 amid the pandemic.
Las tasas de infección de coronavirus en las comunidades latinas han crecido rápidamente en todo Estados Unidos.
A scholar of European fascism (and a bomb attack target), he feared ultranationalism in Israel and saw West Bank settlements as “a cancer.”
Julie Rodrigues Widholm will start in the post at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on Aug. 1.
Fossils and modern DNA show the ancient roots of Arctic sled dogs.
Dwindling white support for the president leads to a deficit of at least six points in each state.
This pandemic has surfaced a dilemma frequently ignored: A-F grades are used poorly and for too many different purposes.
The new approach finds unlikely allies among some feminist scholars, who say colleges and universities were failing to sufficiently protect the rights of young men accused of sexual misconduct.
That study about dexamethasone has arrived with a big asterisk: While it appears to help severely ill patients, it harms others.
Dr. Smith’s meticulous research established household pollution as one of the leading causes of disease and death in the developing world.
More than a dozen people have been fatally shot, including a teenager at her college graduation party and a clothing designer who was washing his car.
The company announced the prohibition after researchers reported that looters were using the platform to identify and sell illegally excavated antiquities.
The president went to Phoenix to speak to a group of student supporters.
The additional funding totals $40.3 million and will support 317 projects at cultural organizations that have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The former pupil, Dillibe Onyeama, said that after he published a book in 1972 detailing his abuse at the school, he was told never to return. The current principal said he was “appalled.”
The C.I.A. made its first television recruiting ad, now airing on streaming services like Hulu, as it tries to build a better, more diverse spy corps.
Lo que decidan los líderes de las ciudades, los funcionarios de los museos y los historiadores tendrá implicaciones en cómo recordemos la historia que las estatuas fueron creadas para representar, así como nuestro momento actual.
The pandemic is giving a new competitive edge to states that have long seen their top students lured away by elite schools.
But researchers caution this does not mean low-income families are escaping hardship. And they warn that when the aid expires next month, families could again be vulnerable.
Contrary to President Trump’s recent comments, specialists say, recent increases are real, and the virus is like a “forest fire” that will burn as long as there is fuel.
“Wilson was a controversial politician, and I think it has heightened awareness in 2020 about some of his racist policies,” said the president of the university, which is in New Jersey.
Matthew Hubbard, a mathematics professor in Oakland, Calif., said his emails to Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American college freshman, were both a “mistake” and “offensive.”
“Currently unemployed,” said the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. But for now, it’s time for some rest and Netflix.
“When I think about Juneteenth as Emancipation Day, and I think about this moment, I feel like we still need to be emancipated.”
The league’s statement will place new pressure on Mississippi lawmakers. But it may not make much difference.
En uno de los túmulos funerarios más impresionantes de la Edad de Piedra en Europa, los investigadores encontraron evidencia de incesto entre hermanos, lo que sugiere la existencia de una sociedad jerárquica.
Two prominent firms, Lloyd’s of London and Greene King, have acknowledged their ties to the slave trade and pledged to make amends.
Two prominent firms, Lloyd’s of London and Greene King, have acknowledged their ties to the slave trade and pledged to make amends.
Higher pay for employees has improved service and productivity in department stores and nursing homes. These findings have direct implications for the current pandemic, an economist says.
Los consejos de un estudiante sobre cómo manejar la incertidumbre y luchar por una vida mejor.
The holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. has become a focus of corporate responses to the reckoning on racial discrimination.
Four games involving historically black colleges and universities were canceled, in part illustrating an economic difficulty for games played at neutral sites.
Transgender Americans such as Rachel Tudor have been fighting for their rights at work, school and housing for years. On Monday, the Supreme Court gave them hope.
He began his career at 12, playing jazz in nightclubs. He went on to become a prolific composer who merged European and African-American influences.
Readers say the president’s claim of transparency is self-evidently false. Also: Safety and the return to college; the disabled and technology.
The coronavirus shutdowns have made online learning more attractive. But students at some schools say they have been taken advantage of.
Un esteroide, la dexametasona, es el primer fármaco que se ha mostrado ayuda a salvar pacientes gravemente enfermos con coronavirus, según un grupo de científicos en Gran Bretaña.
In one of Europe's most impressive Stone Age burial mounds, researchers found evidence of brother-sister incest that suggests the existence of a ruling elite.
The Silicon Valley executive said he hoped his contribution would lead other wealthy individuals to give. “Generally, white capital flows to predominantly white institutions,” he said.
The Silicon Valley executive said he hoped his contribution would lead other wealthy individuals to give. “Generally, white capital flows to predominantly white institutions,” he said.
His Texan Southern University team rose to national prominence, and Martin Luther King Jr., Barbara Jordan and Denzel Washington all learned from him.
His Texas Southern University team rose to national prominence, and Martin Luther King Jr., Barbara Jordan and Denzel Washington all learned from him.
A steroid, dexamethasone, is the first drug shown to help save severely ill coronavirus patients, according to scientists in Britain.
A steroid, dexamethasone, is the first drug proven to reduce coronavirus-related deaths, according to scientists at the University of Oxford in Britain.
A large share of strapped school budgets is going to “merit aid” for wealthy kids, as part of a bidding war to enroll high-income students.
Even at elite universities, I was exposed to the disease that has endangered black lives for so long.
What city leaders, museum officials and historians decide will have implications for how we remember the history the statues were designed to represent, as well as our current moment.
What you need to know about donating in a time of crisis.
Safety plans border on delusional and could lead to outbreaks of Covid-19 among students, faculty and staff.
Immediate steps to limit social contact in parts of the United States where few cases have been identified are needed to slow the outbreak, a model suggests.
Here is a growing list of public and private schools, as well as colleges and universities, that have suspended or altered classes in the local effort to curb the outbreak.