Daytripper University

A well written, poignant piece for those of you sending your 'babies' off to college!

Opinion | How to Let Go of Your Irreplaceable, Unstoppable Daughter My child’s path has split from mine, as it should. But maybe the best is yet to come.

LaGuardia Airport is the latest to offer on-site COVID-19 tests to passengers.

LaGuardia Airport Now Offering Free COVID-19 Tests To Passengers The state is partnering with NYC Health and Hospitals to offer the free COVID tests.

After three relatively smooth weeks of SEC competition, COVID-19 caught up with the nation's highest-profile conference within a span of three days.

College football's next steps after Nick Saban coronavirus diagnosis and high-profile postponements Does the coronavirus diagnosis for Nick Saban, along with rising cases at several big-name schools, change the approach of the sport's power brokers? Not yet, as they say they expected these issues and are not panicking.

A growing number of U.S. colleges and universities are abandoning ACT and SAT scores as part of their admissions process. The so-called test-blind movement has gathered steam this year amid widespread cancellations of the standardized tests because of COVID-19.

ACT and SAT scores no longer required for admissions at some colleges Schools from California to Massachusetts say the tests do not accurately predict students' academic success.

Bittersweet!

Sending kids off to college is an ending, and a beginning Although I still sometimes lose sleep over all the things that have ended, I see now that new beginnings can be just as beautiful.

Want to know what's it like to live through a pandemic on campus? Read this!!!

From ‘Animal House’ to My Parent’s House: How Covid-19 Turned My Senior Year Upside Down Shane Sullivan, a senior at Providence College in Rhode Island, on living through a virus outbreak on campus

An increasing number of colleges and universities are canceling spring break six months ahead of time amid concerns about travel during the coronavirus pandemic.

Colleges scrapping spring break amid travel concerns during coronavirus pandemic An increasing number of colleges and universities are canceling spring break amid concerns about travel during the coronavirus pandemic.

While many bigger universities in cities decided to start off with remote learning, smaller campuses in smaller towns — like Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont — welcomed students with negative test results back, betting that the relative isolation could keep infections at bay.

The colleges that are getting reopening right Some colleges have seemingly cracked the code.

Across the country, college students' mounting coronavirus outbreaks have become an urgent public health issue. Of the 25 hottest outbreaks in the U.S., communities heavy with college students represent 19 of them.

'Astonishingly risky': COVID-19 cases at colleges are fueling the nation's hottest outbreaks Colleges' coronavirus outbreaks have become an urgent public health issue. Of the nation's 25 hottest outbreaks, college communities represent 19.

SOME COLLEGES AND universities inundated with spikes in coronavirus infections are sending students home despite high-ranking White House public health officials' warnings that doing so could ignite a national resurgence of COVID-19.

Facing Coronavirus Spikes, Colleges Send Students Home Against the Warnings of Public Health Officials Public health officials warn that colleges could be facilitating the spread of the coronavirus by sending students home amid case surges on campuses.

In the context of a pandemic that has killed about 190,000 Americans and economically devastated many millions more, getting into the college of your dreams is a boutique concern. But for many teenagers who have organized their school years around that goal, it’s everything.

And it’s going to be different this admission season. It may well be different forevermore.

Opinion | The Coronavirus May Change College Admissions Forever A pandemic returns the focus to what matters: education.

Interesting!

College Fees for WHAT??? (WSVN) - If you don’t get something, you don’t pay for it, right? Well, not during a pandemic and not on college campuses. That has...