College Students

Mariah Guzman, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, and Chancellor Robert Jones gave NBC Chicago an inside look at their high-tech efforts to keep students on the Urbana-Champaign campus safe from COVID-19, including twice a week saliva tests and contact tracing via Bluetooth. One week after opening its doors, the school had an outbreak anyway.

Local college students created a website called Give Essential to bridge two groups of people during the pandemic – essential workers who couldn’t get household items, like toilet paper or laundry detergent, with families who overstocked on those items.

As college students continue to head back to school for the fall semester, The Hotel at the University of Maryland and others are offering an extended-stay package for students which provides flexibility and stability of lodging during the pandemic that on-campus living may not.

On Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced all undergraduate in-person classes will shift to remote learning after four student housing units reported coronavirus outbreaks. Noah Monroe is a current freshman at UNC who said his friends are scared of getting sick.

Princeton graduates Adam Bragg and Lane Russell created ‘The U Experience,’ a new program for college students who will miss out on the traditional college experience and allows them to come together on a single campus and provides them with an offline community experience.

LX News host Ashley Holt talked to a college student from Illinois, a high school student from Georgia and an eighth grader from Indiana about returning to school in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. colleges are asking returning students to promise to help contain the coronavirus.

Laith Mekouar was a freshman at James Madison University when the coronavirus pandemic closed his campus back in March. Mekouar discusses how his college experience will change in the fall and how he feels about returning to school with coronavirus cases rising.

Texas’s Tarleton State University and other small schools are getting a boost in enrollment as the coronavirus pandemic makes traveling to large, distant schools less appealing to students. The university’s president James Hurley joins LX News to discuss the trend.

University of Minnesota student Jael Kerandi convinced her school to terminate its contractual relationship with the Minneapolis police department following the death of George Floyd.

The increasing cost of tuition has pushed some college students into desperate situations. Satchel Lee talked to college students in her hometown to uncover the extreme scenarios young people put themselves through to afford college.