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Student Mental Health Is Worse During COVID-19 June 11, 6:17 a.m. Another study has found that student mental health worsened during the pandemic, The Washington Post reported. In the study, researchers tracked 217 students who were freshmen in 2017. Prior to the pandemic, students’ stress levels rose and fell, usually in tandem with midterm and final exams. Since the onset of
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Washington State Public Four-Year Colleges Go Test Optional, Permanently
May 21, 6:18 a.m. Public four-year colleges in Washington State have gone test optional, permanently. The decision to move to permanent test-optional policies reaffirm our sector’s commitment to reduce barriers for students. Further, as we enter a period of post-COVID-19 recovery, we continue our commitment to learn from this historic challenge and embrace long-term changes that best serve our students and state, said a joint statement from the provosts or vice president of academic affairs of the eight universities.
They are Central Washington, Eastern Washington, Washington State and Western Washington Universities, Evergreen State College and the Universities of Washington at Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma.
Ontario Catholic colleges feel effect of tuition freeze May 20, 2021
“The bottom line is: yes,” St. Jerome’s University president and vice chancellor Peter Meehan told
The Catholic Register when asked if the freeze would be bad for Catholic colleges. “Most of us get flow-through funding from the public university based at least in part on tuition for enrolments. The tuition freeze has meant significant losses for the public universities.”
The Ontario government announced a second year of tuition freezes April 30, following its 2019-20 across-the-board 10-per-cent tuition cut.
“The financial uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic further underscores the need to keep college and university programs affordable,” Colleges and Universities Minister Ross Romano said in a release. “By freezing tuition our government is continuing to reduce the financial strain on families’ pocketbooks.”
Published Monday, May 3, 2021 3:05PM EDT An Ontario court has extended an order allowing a struggling northern Ontario university to continue to operate while protected from its creditors. A stay of legal proceedings against Laurentian University set to expire Sunday evening has been prolonged to Aug. 31 as the school undergoes restructuring. In a handful of rulings issued over the weekend, the Ontario Superior Court also agreed to let Laurentian cut ties with three federated universities as part of the school s efforts to gain financial stability. Those universities the University of Sudbury, Thorneloe University and Huntington University can t access provincial funding directly, and instead receive money from Laurentian according to a funding formula in exchange for delivering programs and services.