Education
Pandemic reveals strains in higher education, panelists say
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College leaders taking part in a Rochester Beacon-Upstate Venture Connect webinar say institutions need to rethink their revenue sources.
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College leaders taking part in a Rochester Beacon-Upstate Venture Connect webinar say institutions need to rethink their revenue sources.
Convened by Common Ground Health, the group includes school leaders, local government officials, health care and public health experts, nonprofits and parents from 13 counties.
The move means international students in Rochester and around the country will not face loss of their lawful status if they attend online-only classes this fall.
How the challenges and limitations she faced shaped one parent’s journey across the Rochester City School District, charter schools and homeschooling.
For too long, Rochester school boards have hidden behind the dual excuses of too little state aid and too high poverty. No more excuses.
Local college and university professors had to switch to online-only teaching when the pandemic lockdown began. For some, it was an alien instructional landscape.
In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, those without broadband service face an even tougher struggle. The RCSD and others are are facing the challenge directly.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in ways that did not seem possible only weeks ago. Yet it’s also a time to appreciate our blessings.
On Jan. 27, heads of state from more than two dozen countries are expected to attend the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial. However, there is reason for concern that awareness of the Holocaust is fading and anti-Semitism is on the rise again in this country—including Rochester—and abroad.
As part of the national All in Campus Democracy Challenge, they boosted student voting rates in the 2018 midterm elections.