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Mohamed Sadek for TIME Twyla Joseph in Islip Terrace, N.Y., on Feb. 5, as her day begins The first sign that Twyla Joseph’s college application process was not going to go as planned came on March 13, 2020, when, a day before her scheduled SAT, she learned the test had been canceled. The May and June tests were also canceled as coronavirus cases surged. Joseph never got to take the admissions test. She barely knows her high school teachers now that she takes all her classes online at home in Islip Terrace, N.Y. She missed out on seasons of varsity cross-country and ...

Subject: The Edge: Students Need Emergency Aid. Peers, Advocates, and Entrepreneurs Are Getting Creative to Deliver It. I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week. Food insecurity has soared nationwide. Student-hunger activists are adapting to the need. Ever since I learned about Swipe Out Hunger, an organization that helps students donate meal-plan credits to classmates in need, I’ve been intrigued by its model, built on altruism and activism and some level of cooperation from colleges�...

California’s state and local college leaders must find new ways to identify student parents and ensure they can access all financial aid, child care, mental health and campus resources, according to two new research briefs. The reports, from UC Davis’s Wheelhouse research center, published Thursday, amount to one of the most comprehensive looks yet at a substantial group of students in California’s higher education systems. Students who are also parents are mostly enrolled at community colleges, are more likely to be women and are older than their peers. By examining financial aid appl...

Posted On - Feb. 24 Submitted By - Charles Covington Clifford H. Covington Jr., whose mathematics degree led to a long career at Rockwell International, where he worked on the space program and classified defense initiatives, passed away Jan. 31 at age 87. Covington was born July 25, 1933, in Cleveland, Ohio, to parents Clifford H. Covington Sr. and Alma E. Allen. The family eventually moved to Compton, Calif., where he graduated from Compton High School. An only child, he was studious and excelled in school, particularly in chemistry, physics and math, taking college courses while still in ...

Long Beach resident Jennifer Hill was excited last week to see that, as an educator, she would be eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine soon, but when she emailed the city asking for more details and specifying that she is under the age of 65, she was surprised to get appointment registration links in response. - ADVERTISEMENT - “I was all excited and I clicked the link and made an appointment,” for Jan. 20, said Hill, who works at Compton College. But then she saw on the city’s VaxLB website that educators under the age of 65 aren’t supposed to start getting inoculated until Jan. 25. ...