Higher Education

Colleges are leaning heavily on campus custodians. "You may not have seen us before the pandemic, but I guarantee you'll see us now," says Tanya Hughes, a campus building services head in Florida.

Some schools are letting students have a full week off. Others are spreading out free days to discourage travel. And some plan on-campus alternatives to leaving for vacation.

Educators say Texas community college enrollment has dropped 9% during the pandemic. Like most issues in the COVID era, this one is affecting people of color more than others.

Many colleges are starting their spring semester this week, and new data show that schools are bringing students back to campus, with more in-person classes.

After decades of false starts, the Matthew Gaines Initiative student group raised $350,000 for Gaines' statue.

Researchers say the pandemic is largely to blame for this year's drastic enrollment declines, but college-going has also been on a decade-long downward trend.

The lack of transparency about coronavirus cases in this North Texas community college system is causing concern among some faculty and students.

A professor’s social media posts about Vice President Mike Pence led the college president to issue a letter, calling the posts “hateful, vile and ill-considered.”

Colleges and universities across Texas moved to online and hybrid courses for safety reasons when COVID-19 hit. Now, many students wonder why they're still paying the same in-person tuition prices.

The state is partnering with the Texas State University System to add roughly 200 new staffers to its stable of more than 3,500 contact tracers.

At UT-Rio Grande Valley, administrators spent a tense summer preparing for the fall semester while local coronavirus rates spiked, the area spiraled into further economic depression and debate raged across the nation about how to safely send college students back to school.

As Texas college towns see rising COVID-19 cases with the return of hundreds of thousands of students to campus, a small but increasing number of...