The decision clears a path for programs like Oregon and Southern California, and means every Power 5 league intends to compete this fall.
Infections among young adults eventually may have spread to older, more vulnerable people, the C.D.C. reported.
The virus has infected more than 29,855,400 people and has been detected in nearly every country.
There are currently no trials underway, making a vaccine unlikely before fall of 2021. And students are missing online school at alarming rates.
Should that change how we think about its risks? This is what the research tells us.
Jamain Stephens was known as a big man on campus. His death raised questions about how his university is handling the coronavirus and prompted athletes to think about their own risks.
The industry is in reset mode. Does a Milanese upstart have the blueprint for how to grow a next generation of blockbuster brands?
A Black student, the subject of degrading comments in a fraternity group chat, got a tip about the messages. She posted them on Twitter.
The president claims you have to make a choice, but you don’t.
My parents wanted a better life for me, but they didn’t know that the scars of their own childhood traumas could still cause pain.
Ten years after state agents raided his home, an engineer fights to prove he was wrongfully attacked over a computer chip start-up.
Most lower-income students are learning online. But in Cajon Valley, Calif., they’re back in school. Here’s how they did it.
Mr. Trump, himself an Ivy League graduate, has made Princeton, Harvard and other elite colleges targets this year.
The pandemic may offer opportunities to help adolescents and young adults make good decisions regarding sexual and social behavior.
At least 73 countries are seeing surges in newly detected cases, and in regions where cold weather is approaching, worries are mounting.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is regarded as the leading contender to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The weekend of rallies heightened the focus on a once taboo issue: a rich and powerful monarchy that has rarely been challenged or criticized.
Campaign volunteers go door to door to rouse voters on Election Day. Now some stay outside polling places, asking voters to text friends to join in.
Universities with traditionally progressive ideals can welcome conservative views, and still reject authoritarianism and hate.
The first step toward a solid evacuation plan is pulling together all the gear you need, before you need it.
He chronicled Stalin’s tyrannies and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he was an enthusiastic admirer of Mikhail Gorbachev.
How one college student fought Covid-19 in isolation — with her mother on FaceTime.
A Michigan fan suggests that not all college sports are deemed equal. Also: The United Nations’ essential role; Donald Trump’s credibility.
Teachers are posting videos of the extraordinary energy required keep young learners engaged and amused.
Donald Harris y Shyamala Gopalan crecieron bajo el dominio colonial británico en lugares opuestos del planeta. Ambos llegaron a Berkeley anhelando una formación profesional y formaron parte de un círculo intelectual que moldeó el resto de sus vidas
The Trump administration opened a civil rights investigation into the university after its president acknowledged the role of systemic racism at the school.
A professor thought he had created a class that could explore society’s fissures through a single sport. Then the pandemic struck, and basketball became more relevant than ever.
He was known for taking on difficult cases, many involving children. An anti-rejection drug he developed led to a scandal, but he was vindicated.
With proper funding and innovation, two-year public colleges can handle job training for millions of people.
The Big Ten’s reversal on playing college football this fall puts young players at risk for our entertainment. The Pac-12 should resist pressure and continue to stand down.
Students, parents and staff members at SUNY Oneonta say a problem of lax screening was made worse by risky off-campus gatherings.
The attorney general’s remarks scanned as a rebuke of career Justice Department lawyers who have questioned his level of involvement.
The two-time Grammy nominee was a studio pianist for country stars. His performance of “Our Winter Love” in 1963 hit the Billboard singles and album charts. He died of the coronavirus.
One of the biggest surveys ever of ancient DNA offers new evidence of who the Vikings were and where they went raiding and trading.
That’s frightening. But a case at your child’s school does not mean you should panic.
That’s frightening. But a case at your child’s school does not mean you should panic.
Higher education institutions have become the latest coronavirus hot spots in the United States. One student’s story illustrates the issues with reopening.
More than 670 students, about 10 percent of the population at SUNY Oneonta, became infected, forcing the campus to be shut down.
More than 670 students, about 10 percent of the population at SUNY Oneonta, became infected, forcing the campus to be shut down.
A small study found signs of heart inflammation in some college athletes who had coronavirus, but the link needs further investigation.
A steady decline in coronavirus cases led Pakistan to reopen universities and high schools. Students were put into two groups, which attend classes on alternate days.
Michael J. Sandel’s “The Tyranny of Merit” examines the damage our current meritocratic system is doing to the country.
“Who Gets In and Why” and “Unacceptable” detail how admissions is rigged in favor of the privileged and how it was gamed even further.
Colleges and universities have become hot spots for coronavirus transmission. Bring on the gallows humor.
We’re also rounding up thought-provoking ideas about Covid-era education, and bringing you the latest local updates for K-12 and college.
A forceful, command-and-control approach that brooks no dissent
La Universidad George Washington me invitó a participar en el ensayo de la vacuna de Moderna porque tengo triple riesgo: soy una mujer negra, asmática y tengo diabetes tipo 1.
Researchers say drug companies need to be more open about how vaccine trials are run to reassure Americans who are skittish about getting a coronavirus vaccine.
In a lawsuit filed in New Jersey, a former member of the well-known Shanghai Quartet said he had been dumped after a remark he made on social media was misinterpreted as an ethnic slur.
In 1970, she helped found the Feminist Press. It was hailed for making available “a legacy of writings by and about women.”
Video obtained by The New York Times shows four men arriving at the scene in a car and shooting into the area.
Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan grew up under British colonial rule on different sides of the planet. They were each drawn to Berkeley, and became part of an intellectual circle that shaped the rest of their lives.
As new coronavirus cases have dropped nationally, infections have soared in the Midwest.
After a distinguished academic career, he brought his love of baseball to a position that he considered a dream job — but that was eliminated five years later.
If you’re overwhelmed from telecommuting for months, here are ways to step away from your devices and, just maybe, get to inbox zero.
Readers respond to an Op-Ed arguing that the contributions of those without a diploma have been devalued.
Face mask? Check. Hand sanitizer? Got it. Here’s how you can help kids ease back into school this fall.
Rather than focus on interracial comparisons, his National Survey of Black Americans explored the complexities within the Black population.
Like meatpacking plants and nursing homes early in the pandemic, campuses across the country are experiencing outbreaks.
George Washington University invited me to participate in Moderna’s vaccine trial because I am triple-risk: a Black woman, a Type 1 diabetic and asthmatic.
Educators’ deaths are part of an unabated pandemic.
Ms. Campbell was the longest-serving professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She died of complications of the novel coronavirus.
The Obama administration’s efforts to require firms to truly work in the interests of investors has already given people better choices, a new study says.
As they memorialize a past tragedy, New Yorkers face another profound and deadly crisis that is not yet over.
An unexpected upswing in positive tests at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign showed how even the most comprehensive approaches to limiting the virus’s spread can break down.
Students are using apps to shame their schools into better coronavirus plans.
A blog post published under the George Washington University professor’s name, Jessica A. Krug, described her use of Black identities even though she is white.
Once a reliable vaccine exists, it won’t stop the pandemic unless most people are willing to take it. Economics provides a solution.
Colleges are struggling to deal with outbreaks on campus.
Colleges are struggling to deal with outbreaks on campus.
Las guerras de los servicios de inteligencia por la investigación de vacunas se han intensificado a medida que China y Rusia amplían sus esfuerzos para robarse el trabajo estadounidense, tanto en institutos de investigación como en empresas.
If you’re pondering a career shift, looking to learn a specific skill or just plain bored, consider a web-based class to broaden your horizons.
September Saturdays in State College, Pa., are usually the apex of a week of hype. Now, as at other college football destinations, the approach of autumn has been unusually quiet there.
Colleges are trying to isolate students who have the coronavirus or have been exposed to it, but they are running into a host of problems.
Students at Richmond Hill High School in Queens don’t come from privileged backgrounds, but they go to college in impressive numbers. This year could look different.
Regular exercise helped lab mice remain psychologically resilient even when their lives seemed filled with threats.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what to do when you believe an employer is putting financial concerns ahead of health and safety — and more.
A demonstration at the University for Theater and Film Arts in Budapest has received support from theater groups, students and faculties in Hungary and around Europe.
It’s the same as it ever was: To learn that the world is more than the issues that divide us.
The buzzy idea is impractical, critics said. And there isn’t yet real-world data to show it will work.
The coronavirus is spiking around campuses from Texas to Iowa to North Carolina as students return.
Riding out the pandemic with family presents the perfect chance to lay it all out: priorities, account balances, end-of-life directives.
The intelligence wars over vaccine research have intensified as China and Russia expand their efforts to steal American work at both research institutes and companies.
A pandemic returns the focus to what matters: education.
A pandemic returns the focus to what matters: education.
Readers expand on an argument made in an editorial.
Roll call becomes a roster of absences. Some students write fantasies of escape. Can a new life begin when you are confined with siblings and parents?
George Washington University said the professor, Jessica A. Krug, will not have classes this semester after a blog post published under her name described her use of Black identities even though she is white.
Providing free meals is a crucial function for schools.
A charitable gift annuity is a way to ensure regular income while also leaving a donation behind, but the coronavirus is squeezing some previously solvent schools.
Funds in 529 plans grow tax free and can be withdrawn tax free if they’re spent on eligible education expenses. But there is some fine print.
They were the first in their families to make it to college. But how do you study when you can’t afford to eat?
Many recent graduates can’t practice their professions without passing a licensing exam, but those tests have been disrupted for months by the coronavirus pandemic.
Can we really be taught to feel each other’s pain?
Muchos de ellos fueron los primeros de sus familias en llegar a la universidad. Pero ¿cómo estudias cuando no puedes sobrevivir?
George Washington University said it was looking into a blog post written under the name of Jessica A. Krug detailing a long history of deception about her racial identity.
More than 500 State University of New York, Oneonta, students tested positive for the coronavirus less than two weeks after classes began.
How can you get your cultural fix when many arts institutions remain closed? Our writers offer suggestions for what to listen to and watch.
His name is synonymous with his field: He was a founding editor of “Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery,” a seminal textbook for medical students.
Over the past 50 years, the music has become entrenched in academic institutions. As a result, it’s often inaccessible to, and disconnected from, many of the very people who created it: young Black Americans.
Thursday: A reporter tries to answer that, and other questions about how things will play out for college athletics.
The billionaire’s gift is meant to ease students’ debts and free them to serve in needy communities.
The billionaire is making a $100 million donation to four institutions in an effort to improve the health and wealth of Black communities.
This simple recipe provides a burst of sunshine any time of year.
The agency told public health agencies that two unidentified vaccines might be ready by October or November. We explain how vaccine trials work, when one might be ready, and who may get them first.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. wants multilateralism “to actually work.” Then he issued a series of unilateral sanctions and other punishments against Trump administration adversaries.
The University of Mississippi will commission an outside audit of the Southern Foodways Alliance, looking into its record on diversity, after calls for the group’s white director to resign.
New data in hand, the W.H.O. recommended that doctors give the drugs to critically ill patients worldwide.
New data in hand, the W.H.O. recommended that doctors give the drugs to critically ill patients worldwide.
As colleges reopen despite the pandemic, students must decide whether they are willing to blow the whistle on their classmates.
It’s having a corrosive effect on American life — and hurting the Democratic Party.
At the University of California, Berkeley, athletes, coaches and administrators face the most complicated puzzle in sports: the return of college athletics. They are allowing The Times an inside look at their journey’s ups and downs.
While government statistics say inflation is low, the reality is that the cost of living has risen during the pandemic, especially for poorer Americans.
Disciplinary action is taken over parties and large gatherings as cases mount on campus.
Some New Yorkers are turning to concierge medical practices and small laboratories, paying more to get results in as little as 24 hours.
The board of trustees said an independent forensic firm would look into all facets of Liberty’s operations, including “financial, real estate and legal matters,” while Mr. Falwell was president.
The New York-based scientist overcame sexism and personal tragedy to make major contributions to the field, for which she received recognition this year.
Readers blame both students and administrators for campus outbreaks and discuss the social isolation forced by Covid.
Universities are pioneering technology that could help society combat the pandemic.
Why are some schools pressuring student-athletes to play a game that could expose them to the coronavirus?
Dorm life got kinda serious.
Samuel Bard was George Washington’s doctor and delivered Alexander Hamilton’s first son. He was also a “pretty significant slave owner.”
Wildfires are burning from California to Minnesota, leaving millions of people to cough and wheeze through the toxic air. Gathering indoors brings the risk of coronavirus. Is there no respite?
College students are getting creative with their distance-learning locales, deadly bacteria may be lurking in schools, and half a billion children have lost access to education.
In dozens of other patients who suppress the virus without drugs, it seems to have been cornered in parts of the genome where it cannot reproduce, scientists reported.
If Stanford, which has deep resources and a reputation as a factory for Olympians, can’t maintain its sports programs amid the pandemic, athletes fear that no one can.
Women produce a more powerful immune response than do men, a new study finds.
Large outbreaks expanded on campuses as new semesters were underway.
A Times survey of hundreds of schools represents the most comprehensive look at the toll the virus has already taken on the country’s colleges and universities.
Expect increased pressure on other teams to change their nicknames and logos, including the Braves, Indians and Chiefs.
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.