Trending Topic: COVID-19

Universities are lowering expectations for pandemic-era students

As students recover from a ‘hangover from virtual high school,’ some Pittsburgh-area universities are responding wi…

By Shelby Kearns
Jan 23, 2023

Medical school faculty try, and fail, to investigate Florida surgeon general

The University of Florida’s head of research said that the university cannot investigate Florida Surgeon General Jo…

By Shelby Kearns
Jan 18, 2023

WATCH: PROF. GIORDANO: Indoor mask mandates on campus are ‘illogical’

As K-12 schools and universities reinstate masking, The National Desk shared an interview with Higher Education Fel…

By Shelby Kearns
Jan 9, 2023

WATCH: PROF. GIORDANO: Masking ‘inhibits the learning environment in the classroom’

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano appeared on The National Desk to discuss mask mandates at c…

By Shelby Kearns
Dec 29, 2022

COVID learning loss will decrease students' lifetime earnings, Stanford economist argues

A study by a Stanford economist estimates ‘that the average student during the pandemic will have 5.6 percent lower…

By Shelby Kearns
Dec 29, 2022

5 times colleges enacted overbearing COVID-19 policies this year

While business as usual returned for many Americans following the COVID-19 pandemic, many colleges across America m…

By Hannah Gagnon
Dec 29, 2022

2022 in Review: 5 COVID lawsuits filed against universities

By Kate Hirzel
Dec 26, 2022

Professors demand COVID vaccine mandate be reversed

University of California (UC) professors are urging the university system to reverse its COVID-19 booster mandates …

By Georgia Lucas
Dec 21, 2022

WATCH: PROF. GIORDANO: What students can learn from protests in China

Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano appeared on Real America's Voice to discuss American studen…

By Shelby Kearns
Dec 18, 2022

PROF. GIORDANO: How authoritarian officials are harming my family, destroying my profession

I have directly witnessed the deleterious effect masking has had in the classroom and how it inhibited learning. W…

By Nicholas Giordano
Dec 15, 2022

PROF. GIORDANO: What the protests in communist China can teach us in the United States

It was not too long ago that many American college students were forced out of the classroom and into distance lear…

By Nicholas Giordano
Dec 8, 2022

WATCH: Hot Take: Masks reinstated at university

Rutgers student Malik Salem joined Campus Reform Correspondent Director and Hot Take host Kate Hirzel to discuss th…

By Kate Hirzel
Dec 7, 2022

WATCH: Notre Dame’s COVID-19 booster mandate

Campus Reform Correspondent Charlie Yockey appeared on the National Desk, discussing Notre Dame’s COVID-19 booster …

By Jared Gould
Dec 4, 2022

Former head coach files lawsuit after being fired for religious objections to COVID-19 vaccine

The coach is seeking damages due to loss of past and future income as well as legal fees totaling $25 million accor…

By Kate Anderson
Nov 21, 2022

Notre Dame students cannot enroll without COVID booster: report

University of Notre Dame students received an email on Monday informing them that in order to enroll in the 2023-2…

By Kate Anderson
Nov 16, 2022

Yale University requiring bivalent booster shot for spring semester

Yale University is requiring students to get bivalent COVID booster shot by the 2023 spring semester.

By William Biagini
Nov 9, 2022

Union agreement stops strike, keeping 77,000 students in class amid 'learning loss'

The Cook County College Teachers Union avoided a strike that would have impacted 77,000 students.

By Robert Schmad
Nov 4, 2022

Colorado School of Mines reverses vaccine mandate following student activism

The Colorado School of Mines reversed its vaccine mandate late last month.

By Alexa Schwerha
Nov 4, 2022

Harvard mandates new COVID-19 booster, threatens holds on enrollment if students don't comply

Starting January 2023, Harvard University is requiring all on-campus students to be vaccinated with the bivalent CO…

By Ava Sherwood
Nov 3, 2022

Fordham University threatened with lawsuit over COVID-19 booster mandate

The Mermigis Law Group is threatening legal action against Fordham university's COVID-19 booster mandate

By Austin Browne
Nov 2, 2022