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A day after implementing new COVID guidelines for businesses, city leaders will announce new mandates for health care workers and college students in Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Health Department is set to announce new COVID mandates for colleges and health care settings and colleges in which people will either have to get vaccinated or show a negative test or wear two masks. NBC10’s Matt DeLucia looks at the new rules already in effect for businesses.

With more than 600 colleges and universities now requiring proof of COVID-19 inoculations, an online industry has sprung up offering fake vaccine cards

U.S. colleges hoping for a return to normalcy next fall are weighing how far they should go in urging students to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including whether they should — or legally can — require it

A scathing report from the Trump administration on Tuesday concluded that top U.S. universities have “massively underreported” funding they accept from China, Russia and other nations described as “foreign adversaries.”

Colleges across the country are struggling to salvage the fall semester as campus coronavirus cases skyrocket and tensions with local health leaders flare

As more universities plan to keep classes online this fall, it’s leading to conflict between students who say they deserve tuition discounts and college leaders who insist remote learning is worth the full cost

Syracuse University has suspended 23 students in the wake of a large on-campus gathering that administrators say could force them to shut down the campus

North Carolina’s flagship university is switching all undergraduate classes to remote learning due to the spread of coronavirus during the first week of classes.

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

There is no existing standard of reporting coronavirus cases or deaths on campuses, nor is that information being publicly tracked on a national scale, NBC News reports. A New York Times survey revealed at least 6,600 cases tied to roughly 270 colleges. Universities have taken various approaches to sharing coronavirus updates with students and faculty. Some schools, such as the University of Wisconsin—Madison, plan...

A study by The Hechinger Report found that many colleges and universities were already facing downturns in enrollment, retention, tuition revenue and state appropriations before the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the school year. Senior editor Sarah Butrymowicz joined LX news to discuss how this added financial stress could change higher education post-pandemic.

Dozens of U.S. colleges are announcing plans to test students for the coronavirus this fall, but their strategies vary widely.

Even with a fresh victory on behalf of international students, U.S. universities fear they’re losing a broader fight over the nation’s reputation as a place that embraces and fosters the world’s best scholars.

Students at more than 25 universities are filing lawsuits demanding tuition refunds from their schools after finding that the online classes they’re being offered don’t match up to the classroom experience

With the coronavirus initiating international travel bans and campuses shut down, colleges and universities are seeking alternative ways to provide students with continued academic opportunities, including the iconic, immersive overseas study experience.

Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova are among the Philadelphia area colleges and universities to move classes online in response to the new coronavirus. NBC10’s reporter Miguel Martinez-Valle speaks with students about the sudden change.