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Mariah Guzman, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, and Chancellor Robert Jones gave NBC Chicago an inside look at their high-tech efforts to keep students on the Urbana-Champaign campus safe from COVID-19, including twice a week saliva tests and contact tracing via Bluetooth. One week after opening its doors, the school had an outbreak anyway.

The San Diego and Imperial Counties Community College Association raised enough money in its annual Pack the Pantry food drive to provide more than 90,000 meals for local students facing food insecurity, it was announced Monday.

In the midst of rising coronavirus infections in the Bay Area and across the country, public health officials have been pleading with people not to travel this holiday season. But lots of college students are on the move.

A group of businesses, colleges and nonprofits announced today they were kicking off the second annual Pack the Pantry food drive to assist college students with food insecurity.

A group of young Republicans who call themselves Gen Z GOP are aiming to reshape the party for their generation. These Washington, D.C., college students all identify as Republican. They don’t, however, feel like they’re at home in the GOP under President Trump. Here’s how they’re trying to change that.

So far no large possible super spreader gatherings have been reported in the college area since the county’s public health officer issued cease-and-desist orders to multiple homes they thought may be planning halloween parties this weekend. NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado has been on party patrol in the area.

American University students Meredith Reilly and Zachary Houdek drove from Washington D.C. to their home state of Texas to cast their ballots for the 2020 election. The two first-time voters joined LX News to talk about their journey to make sure their votes count.

California college students have registered to vote in large numbers for the 2020 presidential election. A little more than a week until election day and students at San Diego State University say their generation is fired up, “I think Gen Z is motivated,” said freshman Mika Metz. According to the California Secretary of State’s office 65,000 college students registered to…

The first Point Loma Nazarene University student who tested positive for the coronavirus has a message for other college-aged adults – take the virus seriously.

As college students continue to head back to school for the fall semester, The Hotel at the University of Maryland and others are offering an extended-stay package for students which provides flexibility and stability of lodging during the pandemic that on-campus living may not.

On Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced all undergraduate in-person classes will shift to remote learning after four student housing units reported coronavirus outbreaks. Noah Monroe is a current freshman at UNC who said his friends are scared of getting sick.

Princeton graduates Adam Bragg and Lane Russell created ‘The U Experience,’ a new program for college students who will miss out on the traditional college experience and allows them to come together on a single campus and provides them with an offline community experience.

LX News host Ashley Holt talked to a college student from Illinois, a high school student from Georgia and an eighth grader from Indiana about returning to school in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. colleges are asking returning students to promise to help contain the coronavirus.

Laith Mekouar was a freshman at James Madison University when the coronavirus pandemic closed his campus back in March. Mekouar discusses how his college experience will change in the fall and how he feels about returning to school with coronavirus cases rising.

Texas’s Tarleton State University and other small schools are getting a boost in enrollment as the coronavirus pandemic makes traveling to large, distant schools less appealing to students. The university’s president James Hurley joins LX News to discuss the trend.

University of Minnesota student Jael Kerandi convinced her school to terminate its contractual relationship with the Minneapolis police department following the death of George Floyd.

A number of colleges and universities are making the SATs optional for admissions next year after the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of the standardized tests this spring. This comes after years of criticism that the SAT puts low-income and minority students at a disadvantage.

Stimulus checks are showing up in people’s bank accounts. Millions of people will get checks, but some of the hardest hit populations are missing out because of several loopholes in the law.

There are a lot of questions and concerns about the new stimulus checks. NBC 7’s Consumer Bob has the details.