Daily Lumina News 051920

Khuslen Tulga is one of 55 students, almost all international, still living at Hamilton College after the coronavirus outbreak ended in-person classes and sent most students off campus. Her days are marked by video calls to her grandparents, who raised her, in Mongolia. The internet is her only tether home after the pandemic closed the country’s borders.
The abrupt end to the semester and the transition to remote learning has been difficult for everyone. But international students like Tulga—far from family and often with little sense of when they might return home—are among the most vulnerable.

As college administrators across the country continue announcing plans to reopen their institutions this fall, two important questions have been largely lost in the debates over those decisions. What will it take for colleges to reopen responsibly as long as there is no vaccine or treatment for COVID-19—and how realistic is it that colleges can put measures in place by fall?

For high school seniors, this is the time of year that usually means prom, preparing for graduation and, most importantly, considering next steps, whether that's college or a training program or a gap year.
But there's nothing usual about this semester for the class of 2020. In this interview, a high school graduate discusses the impact of the coronavirus on her future education and career goals.

Residential colleges are scrambling to get and provide clarity as to how the COVID-19 pandemic might alter their educational offerings.
With open-ended contingency plans in tow, college leaders are adapting at least a portion of students' coursework—and elements of campus life, such as clubs and events—to remote platforms. Others are restructuring the academic term. Some are experimenting with a combination of these strategies.