This article was originally published in CalMatters. As the world settled into pandemic life, students who graduated from high school during the COVID-19 crisis started new chapters of their lives in ...

In the last 14 months, we’ve had to get creative about finding new ways to be together and learn new things. Those of us lucky enough to have a strong internet connection and a working computer have ...

The pandemic is ruining one of the most fun parts of the college experience, but maybe there’s a silver lining. A tumbleweed blowing across a street. That’s the image that pops into Kenneth Peter’s ...

A professor at a California college has been put on administrative leave for berating a hearing-impaired student during a Zoom class that went viral. The tenured professor at Oxnard College — ...

Just as the pandemic is loosening its grip and schools and colleges move back to in-person classes, new startups are offering video platforms they say do a better job for teaching than Zoom or other ...

I teach a first-year seminar each fall. Last year we met remotely—via Zoom during regularly scheduled class times. I wrestled about the ethics of requiring students to keep their cameras on. I decided ...

The class of 2022 will be the third in a row to graduate into a pandemic. With graduation season underway, seniors are facing a mix of emotions: excitement to be finishing a college education that ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As the world settled into pandemic life, students who graduated from high school during the COVID-19 crisis started ...

Banda plodded through Zoom classes and graduated high school in 2021. She became the first in her family to go to college when she enrolled at Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert campus.

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