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A look at how students are faring following the COVID-19 pandemic

AALS — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:53:48 +0000

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Emerging federal data offers a nuanced portrait of the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic created for the generation of students who entered higher education at the onset of the public health crisis.

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Report: COVID-19 pandemic heightened inequities in colleges

AALS — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:29:04 +0000

INSIDE HIGHER ED — A new report from the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University explores how students’ college experiences during the pandemic varied by race and ethnicity.

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Most colleges remove COVID-19 vaccine requirements

AALS — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:29:14 +0000

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Going into the 2021-2022 academic year, hundreds of U.S. colleges and universities mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for students, which had been released the previous December and gradually become accessible to the public.

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How law schools have implemented remote learning following the COVID-19 pandemic

AALS — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 17:54:06 +0000

LSAC — The option to learn online opens access to students, particularly those who may be balancing other obligations like family and work, who do not have ready access to transportation, or who may live in areas that are far from their desired law school. Importantly, law schools now have new freedom to deliver significantly...

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How remote work policies have influenced disability law

AALS — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 14:37:02 +0000

BLOOMBERG LAW — Federal judges are somewhat less likely to side with employers that deny requests for telework as a disability accommodation after the Covid-19 pandemic sparked a remote work revolution.

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Many women of color reenrolled in college during the COVID-19 pandemic

AALS — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:43:04 +0000

NPR — During the pandemic, the overall number of students in college dropped sharply, but nearly 1 million people who had left school before COVID actually went back mid-pandemic. And among those students, women of color led the way. Kirk Carapezza of member station GBH in Boston reports.

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Universities prepare for flu season

AALS — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:30:15 +0000

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Influenza outbreaks have always been of particular concern on college campuses, where close-quarters living, crowded lecture halls and fluid social circles make airborne transmission especially easy. But the past two flu seasons were almost nonexistent on campuses, thanks to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic—which kept them empty—or masking and social...

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Florida Supreme Court hears breach of contract case after COVID-19 campus shutdown

AALS — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:54:20 +0000

INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Florida state Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would hear a lawsuitagainst the University of South Florida over campus shutdowns and remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The pros and cons of college professors recording their lectures

AALS — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:44:55 +0000

INSIDE HIGHER ED — The pandemic may be fading, but some students still need accommodations and flexibility, proponents say. Others argue that recorded lectures inhibit class discussion, compromise privacy and threaten faculty intellectual property rights.

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Brooklyn Law students vote to expand Covid-19 vaccine exemption policy for students and faculty with disabilities

AALS — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:25:32 +0000

BROOKLYN PAPER — A number of students, staff and alumni at the Brooklyn Law School are fighting to change the institution’s COVID vaccine disability exemption policy after at least two students say they were forced to leave the school temporarily or permanently when their medical exemptions were denied.

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