The Covid-19 pandemic has closed campuses across the nation, upending the familiar signposts of residential college life.

Colleges’ move to emergency online instruction because of the coronavirus has coincided with school and day-care closures. Here’s what that looks like for instructors with children.

Petitions for housing and dining refunds are cropping up around the country, but there is no uniform approach for reimbursement.

The settlement resolves a dispute with former faculty members and students, who alleged that the university had defamed and retaliated against them for complaining about a tenured professor’s conduct.

It’s disrupted their research and funding, muddied the job-market waters, and complicated questions about their status at their institution.

The Great Recession showed how a crisis can fuel state disinvestment. “If past is prologue,” one university official said, “we have reason to be concerned.”