The University of Pennsylvania will require faculty, staff, and postdocs to receive the COVID-19 vaccine before a return to in-person learning in the fall.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that public colleges and universities across New York will begin offering the COVID-19 vaccine, with the aim of vaccinating as many college students as possible before the end of the spring semester.
Stony Brook University on Long Island started this process last week.
Cuomo said the state will ship vaccines directly to campuses.
“We will be giving direct allocations to schools, colleges, universities, so they can vaccinate their students in their facilities,” Cuomo said. “Let’s stamp this beast to death while we can.”
As of April 6, any New Yorker 16 years and older is eligible for the vaccine. Cuomo said private colleges will also be allowed to participate in the vaccination effort.
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The Paier College of Art in Connecticut announced Monday that they are moving out of Hamden and into Bridgeport.
The college will remain an independent institution but will be hosted at the Arnold Center for the Arts and Humanities at the University of Bridgeport starting this fall. The partnership will allow Paier to offer on-campus housing to their students at Bridgeport’s dormitories and other facilities like their library.
The college will also change their name simply to Paier College to reflect the growing degrees offered by the school beyond the arts.
Paier wants approval from the U.S. Department of Education to offer these new degree programs, which overlap with those offered at Bridgeport.
A year into the coronavirus crisis, many high school seniors have dramatically changed their expectations about the future.
A recent survey of high school students found that the likelihood of attending a four-year school sank nearly 20% in the last eight months down to 53%, from 71%, according to ECMC Group, a nonprofit aimed at helping student borrowers.
High schoolers are putting more emphasis on career training and post-college employment, the report found.
More than half said they can achieve professional success with three years or less of college, and just one-fourth believe a four-year degree is the only route to a good job. ECMC Group polled more than 1,000 high school students three times over the last year.