by Alia Wong | Jul 17, 2020 | education, health care, higher education, lifestyle, parenting
As the number of coronavirus cases surges across the U.S., skepticism is mounting over colleges’ ability to resume campus activity in the fall. Still, as of mid-July, around 55% of colleges were aiming for an in-person fall semester while another 30% were...
by Alia Wong | Jul 7, 2020 | education, higher education, language & culture, politics, race
Rohini Mettu got a perfect score on the ACT standardized test. The 20-year-old University of Washington student worked hard for that outcome, spending countless hours in expensive test-prep classes and countless more studying on her own. But Mettu, a rising junior,...
by Alia Wong | Jun 16, 2020 | education, health care, higher education, money matters
Back in March, people began trickling into Calvin University’s health center complaining of symptoms such as body aches and sore throats. The students and employees tested negative for the flu, leading campus officials to suspect they’d come down...
by Alia Wong | May 18, 2020 | education, health care, higher education
Residential colleges are scrambling to get and provide clarity as to how the COVID-19 pandemic might alter their educational offerings. This guesswork involves questions such as whether campuses will even be allowed to reopen in the fall — and if so, what sorts of...
by Alia Wong | Nov 8, 2019 | government, higher education, money matters
It took a little more than a decade for the University of Chicago to reinvent itself, going from a well-regarded but largely regional school to an extremely selective university with national prestige. In 2006, the Hyde Park university admitted more than a third of...
by Alia Wong | Aug 31, 2019 | higher education, lifestyle
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several outbreaks of infectious disease in the U.S., including the flu, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, prompted public-health officials and homemaking experts to suggest a tweak to American...
