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For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic started, some Boston area colleges and universities will give graduates their diplomas in person. But other schools are planning for their second virtual graduations. Still others, like Boston College and Tufts, have yet to announce commencement plans. Here’s a rundown of what the area’s higher education organizations have planned: Berklee will...

The president of Emerson College is leaving his post to become the leader of the Boston Foundation. The philanthropic organization announced Tuesday night that Lee Pelton would become its next president and CEO. Emerson College also announced that Pelton would be stepping down in June at the end of the spring semester, calling the news “bittersweet.” “I want to express…

U.S. Marine Corps prosecutors have filed charges, including murder and manslaughter, against a lance corporal who’d been under investigation in the death of an Emerson College student after a fight in Boston in 2019. Lance Cpl. Samuel London faces five charges in total, a representative for the Marines said Monday: murder, voluntary and involuntary manslaughter and two counts of...

Lance Cpl. Samuel London faces five charges in total in the death of Daniel Hollis, a representative for the Marines said Monday: murder, voluntary and involuntary manslaughter and two counts of assault consummated by battery.

Boston’s Emerson College issued an all clear around 11:15 a.m. Friday after a campus-wide alert for a report of a person with a gun on or near their campus. According to the alert, which was issued around 10:45 a.m., the person was seen at the rear of the Paramount Center loading dock, moving away from campus. The person was...

Universities are reporting positive cases of COVID-19 as students return to campuses. Could this cause Boston-area universities to close as well?

As the fall semester slowly begins, with new precautions in place, at Boston University and nearby Emerson College, at least one person at each institution has tested positive for the new coronavirus. The tests may not be the last among students who return to universities in the Boston area this fall during the COVID-19 pandemic. Local schools, including BU and…

A Massachusetts college professor is facing charges in Minnesota, where he is accused of sexually assaulting four children when he taught at a middle school. Emerson College said Friday that it had cut ties with Jefferson Fietek, who was hired last year as an assistant professor of theater education. Fietek, 46, was arrested Thursday morning, according to police in Malden,…

Emerson College has cut ties with a professor accused of sexually assaulting children while he was a middle school teacher in Minnesota.

Boston University has announced that students will be back on campus for the fall semester, but with restrictions. The university created a website called “Back 2 Bu,” where the reopening plan for each area of the school is detailed. Policies include the option of both online and in-person courses for undergraduates, which will incorporate social distancing. Dorm life guidelines are…

Boston University created a website called “Back 2 BU” where the reopening plan for each area of the university is detailed.

Two New England colleges on Wednesday announced their reopening plans for the fall 2020 term amid the coronavirus pandemic. Emerson College in Boston announced it is launching “One Emerson Flex Learning,” which will combine both online and in-person learning. College officials said the vast majority of students and their parents wanted to return to campus. “Flex Learning is our approach…

Prof. Jabari Asim, author of “We Can’t Breathe,” shared his thoughts on the worldwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

A group of college presidents from around the state, who put together a framework for reopening, are meeting with state officials Thursday.

The woman recently traveled to Italy with the school system. If the positive test is confirmed by the CDC, it will be the second known case in the Commonwealth.

The U.S. Marine Corps troop under investigation in the death of an Emerson College student who succumbed to injuries he sustained in a fight in Boston in September, will not be indicted. A Suffolk County grand jury voted Friday to not return an indictment against the marine. That marine had been under investigation since 19-year-old Daniel Hollis, a Hopedale...

As the world continues to worry about the spread of coronavirus, college students are among those being affected. Students abroad at Emerson College’s castle, Kasteel Well, in the Netherlands, are now restricted from traveling out of that country until March 15. The school has also cancelled an upcoming trip for those students, who were planning to visit Milan, Italy. “I…

As the world braces for the coronavirus, college students in study abroad programs are being affected.

Marlboro College has released documents related to its plan to merge with a college in Boston as a group tries to keep the school open. The information, including financial statements from 2015 through 2019 and tax returns from 2013 to 2017, was released on the school’s website after a group issued a challenge at a community meeting Dec. 14, the…