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After a year of obstacles, international students work to overcome the challenges of returning to USC.

Student Mental Health Is Worse During COVID-19 June 11, 6:17 a.m. Another study has found that student mental health worsened during the pandemic, The Washington Post reported. In the study, researchers tracked 217 students who were freshmen in 2017. Prior to the pandemic, students’ stress levels rose and fell, usually in tandem with midterm and final exams. Since the onset of

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...

International Students Heading To CA Navigate Vaccine Hurdles Patch 5 days ago In Summary More California colleges are planning to require students to get COVID-19 vaccinations. For international students, that often means only vaccines approved by the World Health Organization will be accepted, even though not all students have access to those. Lea este artículo en español. Update (5/7/2021): The World Health Organization has approved China’s Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency ...

International Students Heading to California Colleges Navigate Vaccine, Visa Hurdles IIncoming UC Irvine student Yutika Khemka photographed via Zoom in her bedroom in Kolkata. Khemka isn’t certain if the vaccines currently available in India will qualify her to return to campus in the fall but she says she will take whichever vaccine she can get. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters ### A growing list of California colleges will require students to get COVID-19 vaccinations as classes largely ...

Rifco Inc.: Rifco National Auto Finance Appoints New President and Announces a Strategic Initiative Rifco Inc. (TSXV: RFC) (" Rifco" or the " Company") is pleased to provide its investors with an update on the Company. Rifco National Auto Finance Inc. ("RNAF"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rifco, has appointed Roger Saran as its President & Chief Operating Officer reporting to Jeffrey Newhouse, Chief Executive Officer of Rifco Inc. Prior to his promotion, Roger was Vice President and Chief Cre...

Colleges and Universities Plan for Normal-ish Campus Life in the Fall Dr. Sarah Van Orman treads carefully around the word “normal” when she describes what the fall 2021 term will look like at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and other colleges nationwide. In the era of covid, the word conjures up images of campus life that university administrators know won’t exist again for quite some time. As much as they want to move in that direction, Van Orman said, these first s...

April 12, 2021 in News, Sticky According to the research study conducted by Susannah Fox and Jim Steyer, nearly 40% of young adults aged 14-24 felt some sort of depression during the past year. (Gina Nguyen | Daily Trojan) More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, mental health has been a major topic of concern across disciplines. Focused on its intersection with social media, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism Dean Willow Bay talked with United States Surgeon General Dr. V...

In the Covid-19 vaccine push, no one is speaking Gen Z’s language Drew Angerer/Getty Images WASHINGTON — Useful Covid-19 information isn’t reaching the Instagram generation. There’s almost no messaging specifically tailored to them from federal or state public health officials. There’s hardly anything official on Tik Tok. And even the limited efforts to reach them where they are — like Instagram’s links to its “Covid-19 information center”— aren’t working. Just ask Kymon P...

Apr 7, 2021 Dr. Sarah Van Orman treads carefully around the word “normal” when she describes what the fall 2021 term will look like at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and other colleges nationwide. In the era of covid, the word conjures up images of campus life that university administrators know won’t exist again for quite some time. As much as they want to move in that direction, Van Orman said, these first steps may be halting. “We believe that higher education g...