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Live Updates: Latest News on Coronavirus and Higher Education By Washington State Public Four-Year Colleges Go Test Optional, Permanently May 21, 6:18 a.m. Public four-year colleges in Washington State have gone test optional, permanently. "The decision to move to permanent test-optional policies reaffirm our sector’s commitment to reduce barriers for students. Further, as we enter a period of post-COVID-19 recovery, we continue our commitment to learn from this historic challenge and embrac...

Fifth year of Opportunity Area announced, backed by £18 million to build back better for children and young people in disadvantaged regions

16 hours ago The Lawrence University Environmental Organization is introducing a sustainable menstruation project in collaboration with the Student Alliance Against Sexual Harassment and Assault (SAASHA), the Lawrence University Disability Working Group (LUDWiG), the Diversity and Intercultural Center (D&IC) and the Lawrence Food Pantry.   According to junior Lauren Kelly, the president of the LU Environmental Organization, SAASHA will be educating students on period poverty and how to use the...

12 hours ago The opinions expressed in The Lawrentian are those of the students, faculty and community members who wrote them. The Lawrentian does not endorse any opinions piece except for the staff editorial, which represents a majority of the editorial board. The Lawrentian welcomes everyone to submit their own opinions. For the full editorial policy and parameters for submitting articles, please refer to the about section. I was lucky that I didn’t have any classes on that Tuesday m...

The Lawrence Food Pantry will officially become institutionalized beginning next year.  Started by Associate Dean of Academic Success Kate Zoromski and Associate Dean of Student Life Paris Wicker, the food pantry has existed on campus in some form since 2017. However, according to Zoromski, the food pantry was not institutionalized until now due to the fact that many institutions were not originally designed to support low-income students. Places like Lawrence University have been working to b...

With warmer weather, students adapt campus events to COVID-19 guidelines April 21, 2021 Shanna Kang 21, Jacey Birkenmeyer 22 and Eli Calalang-Lacroix 22 (left to right) perform at The Grinnellian in Spring 2019, the last time the event was held. Photo contributed by Saketan Anand. By Malcolm Galpern Levin galpernl@grinnell.edu As the weather warms up and the sun shines over Mac Field, Grinnell College students in a typical spring semester enjoy a wide range of exciting events and campus traditi...

SHARE ON: Minister of Colleges and Universities Ross Romano has announced the Northern Ontario School of Medicine is being severed from Laurentian and Lakehead universities. Photo provided by NOSM Minister of Colleges and Universities Ross Romano has announced the Northern Ontario School of Medicine is being severed from Laurentian and Lakehead universities. On Friday, Romano announced school would no longer be able to offer degrees as part of Lakehead or Laurentian University and would instea...

galpernl@grinnell.edu After traveling from Greece to Grinnell, taking a total of four flights stopping in Munich, Washington D.C., Chicago and finally Des Moines, Inna Gjoleka `21 is back in Grinnell for the first time since March 2020, when students were forced to vacate campus. Gjoleka says she didn’t mind being in Greece because it gave her the opportunity to spend more time with her family. Still, when the College announced fourth-year students would be invited back to campus for Spring T...

bakerni@grinnell.edu Low COVID-19 positivity rates at Grinnell College have driven the administration to relax previously strict pandemic precautions, but after close to a year of the College’s highly restrictive safety policy, some students are questioning the changes – as well as what they may reveal about the College’s priorities. The College’s decision to invite back all first-year students for Spring Term 1 and to invite second- and fourth-year students for Spring Term 2, as well ...

Photo provided by Shippensburg University Emily Zuniga, one of our news writers, had the opportunity to interview Lawrence University’s next president, Laurie Carter, on Friday, March 5. The two met virtually the day after Carter was announced to be the 17th president of Lawrence. Carter will be the first BIPOC to serve as president at Lawrence, and her tenure will begin July 1, 2021.  Come Spring Term, we will be releasing a full article on Carter’s appointment. Until then, please read th...