News that the University of California at Berkeley, Miami Dade College, and others will start the semester remotely signals a retreat from the optimism of the late spring.

As on-campus study and life fall victim to Covid-19, experts say such students will suffer as a result.

Colleges are at a greater risk of losing vulnerable students at the very moment when keeping them enrolled may be a matter of institutional survival. This in-depth Chronicle report explores what colleges are doing to support the students who have been most affected by the crisis.

C.L. (Max) Nikias was pushed from office in 2018 over his handling of a sexual-abuse scandal involving a campus gynecologist.

The term âmelt,â which describes students who commit to a college but donât show up for classes, isnât new. But the coronavirus could turn this seasonâs melt into a flood.

Six of the 14 institutions in the state system would consolidate to help save the system after years of enrollment drops and financial difficulties.