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Bradley University enacts 2-week quarantine for all students and bans social gatherings as COVID-19 clusters emerge on Peoria campus

September 8, 2020 at 6:17 p.m.

Bradley University is requiring all students to quarantine for two weeks and is temporarily reverting to remote learning due to concerns that clusters of COVID-19 are linked to off-campus gatherings,...

People walk on Green Street near the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in July. Hundreds of COVID-19 cases have been detected on campus since students returned for the fall term.

‘Irresponsible and dangerous’ partying by some students leads University of Illinois to crack down on social activity and warn of suspensions as campus COVID-19 cases near 800

September 2, 2020 at 7:57 p.m.

Despite an expansive testing program and models that predicted how many COVID-19 cases would pop up on campus, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is confronting a grim reality shared...

Universities are suspending students who party without masks and flout social distancing: ‘If you don’t abide by the rules, there’s no place for you here’

September 2, 2020 at 7:02 p.m.

College students, beware: You could temporarily lose your spot on campus ? or worse, get expelled ? for partying with your peers this fall. It happened at Purdue University in...

Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro said he made the decision to close residence halls and Greek houses after the school determined its plans did not set aside enough quarantine space for students.

Northwestern University president apologizes and reduces tuition after shifting 1st- and 2nd-year students to remote learning: ‘I understand that anger’

September 1, 2020 at 5:25 p.m.

Facing backlash from angry first- and second-year students who recently learned they can't study at Northwestern University's campus this fall, school President Morton Schapiro repeatedly apologized during an online presentation...

Northwestern University annouced late Friday that freshmen and sophomores will not return to campus this term.

Northwestern University announces it won’t have freshmen and sophomores on campus and will close fraternity and sorority houses because of COVID-19

August 28, 2020 at 10:01 p.m.

Northwestern University announced late Friday that it will not have freshmen and sophomore students back on campus for the fall term or in residence halls, and will keep sorority and...

A specimen is handed over as COVID-19 saliva testing is conducted on the University of Illinois campus in July.

University of Illinois ran 17,000 COVID-19 tests on first day of classes, but results are taking longer and hundreds have been invalid or inconclusive

August 28, 2020 at 5:45 p.m.

On the first day of fall classes, a record number of students, faculty and staff took COVID-19 tests at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, using the school's pioneering saliva-based...

The Weber Arch at Northwestern University campus in Evanston on July 21, 2020.

‘There’s been an awful lot of partying’: Northwestern University asks Evanston residents to report students who ignore COVID-19 precautions in off-campus gatherings

August 26, 2020 at 1:20 p.m.

Northwestern University's campus in Evanston is going to feel less crowded this fall, with residence hall capacity reduced to about 70% and more than half of all employees still working...

Clay Goldman, a University of Notre Dame student, prepares to go for a run in South Bend, Indiana, on Aug. 20, 2020. He said he had some trouble scheduling a COVID-19 test after some track teammates contracted the virus.

Notre Dame had to suspend classes days into the term as COVID-19 cases surged. Is that a cautionary tale for other college campuses trying to reopen?

August 21, 2020 at 5:30 p.m.

Hours before the University of Notre Dame suspended in-person classes to quell a growing COVID-19 outbreak among students, Clay Goldman walked into a campus testing center that didn't have enough...

Saliva specimens are collected for COVID-19 testing in a tent at the University of Illinois campus in July.

U. of I. expects COVID-19 cases to multiply as students return but says it can stop the spread with new saliva test

August 21, 2020 at 4:51 p.m.

COVID-19 cases in the Urbana-Champaign area will rise as college students flock back to campus for the fall semester, but the University of Illinois says it's prepared to handle the...

Notre Dame moves classes online for two weeks after COVID-19 cases more than double in one day; campus public spaces also shut down

August 19, 2020 at 9:53 a.m.

Calling COVID-19 "a formidable foe," the University of Notre Dame's president announced Tuesday that all undergraduate courses will be shifted online for at least two weeks in an effort to...

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