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A mask hangs from a sign on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston. The university's Kellogg School of Management is the latest to shift to online classes because of COVID-19 cases.

Northwestern’s Kellogg School goes remote for two weeks after more than 50 students linked to multiple off-campus gatherings and 4 catch COVID-19

October 16, 2020 at 9:27 p.m.

Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management announced Friday evening that it will suspend in-person classes for two weeks after four students who attended recent off-campus gatherings tested positive for COVID-19....

Marcus Mason-Vivit, shown on Loyola University Chicago's campus, resigned from his job in the admissions office, citing a "toxic atmosphere ... particularly pertaining to people of color."

Citing a ‘toxic atmosphere,’ a Black admissions employee resigns from Loyola University, prompting a discrimination probe and calls for racial justice on campus

October 15, 2020 at 5:31 p.m.

At Loyola University Chicago, where fewer than 6% of undergraduates are Black, Marcus Mason-Vivit's presence comforted minority students who rarely found someone who looked like them on campus. A Black...

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business' campuses in Hyde Park, shown here, and downtown are closing temporarily because of a COVID-19 outbreak tied to a large group of MBA students.

More than 100 University of Chicago MBA students are in quarantine after COVID-19 cases tied to off-campus gathering, classes move online

October 14, 2020 at 6:49 p.m.

The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business is temporarily shifting to online classes and more than 100 of its students are under quarantine after a COVID-19 outbreak was connected...

Scott Sheridan, a tenured professor of French and Italian at Illinois Wesleyan University, is losing his job as the school eliminates many offerings in the humanities.

An Illinois university got major pushback for cutting religion, French and anthropology. But other colleges are dropping the humanities too.

October 5, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

Scott Sheridan didn't expect his 23 years of teaching at Illinois Wesleyan University to end like this. Though fewer students are pursuing degrees in his areas of study these days,...

From top, Eric Trump, senior adviser to the president Ivanka Trump, first lady Melania Trump, daughter of the president Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr., are seen ahead of the first presidential debate at the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland on Sept. 29, 2020.

University of Notre Dame president tests positive for COVID-19 after attending White House Rose Garden ceremony with President Trump

October 2, 2020 at 8:17 p.m.

The University of Notre Dame's president has tested positive for COVID-19, a school spokesman confirmed Friday, less than a week after he attended Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination ceremony...

Northern Illinois University took a two-week break from in-person classes and has since seen a drop in new COVID-19 cases.

After ‘notable decrease in parties’ and a drop in COVID-19 cases, Northern Illinois University will resume in-person classes

September 25, 2020 at 9:10 p.m.

Northern Illinois University in DeKalb will restart in-person courses Monday after a two-week shift to remote learning saw a drop in COVID-19 cases among students and showed that no infections...

An isolation area is set up between residence halls at University of Wisconsin at Madison.

University of Wisconsin at Madison will restart in-person classes but asks students to move out of dorms if they can

September 23, 2020 at 5:37 p.m.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison will tentatively resume in-person classes starting Saturday after a two-week pause in campus activity helped drive down the number of new COVID-19 infections among...

Freshmen Lauren Tamborini and Bailey Donahue move out of a dorm at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after the campus announced a two-week pause in in-person classes.

COVID-19 cases have plummeted at Notre Dame since a two-week campus shutdown. Can that work for other universities struggling to contain the virus’s spread?

September 16, 2020 at 9:17 a.m.

Nicole Ludford should have been in art history class on a recent morning — her only course meeting in person this semester — but instead she stayed inside her apartment...

Sen. Dick Durbin speaks at a Labor Day groundbreaking at Pullman National Monument last week. On Monday, he said the federal government abruptly redirected COVID-19 testing equipment that Loyola and Illinois State universities were expecting.

Feds ‘commandeered’ COVID-19 testing supplies ordered by Loyola and Illinois State to detect virus on campus, Sen. Dick Durbin says

September 14, 2020 at 5:58 p.m.

At least two Illinois colleges that ordered COVID-19 testing materials from the federal government didn't receive the supplies because they were abruptly reallocated, curtailing the schools' ability to provide in-person...

A staff member stands outside of a COVID-19 testing site on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana-Champaign. The school saw a drop in undergraduate enrollment of about 350 students from last year.

Some Illinois universities see drop in freshmen and international student enrollment during COVID-19 pandemic

September 9, 2020 at 6:11 p.m.

In an early glimpse of the coronavirus pandemic's effect on college enrollment, some Illinois universities are seeing declines in international students and freshman class sizes but also a higher number...

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