On campuses around the country today, college students are watched, tracked and managed by a growing concentration of technologies.

Ohio State University suspended all in-person classes through the end of March

Legislators killed the higher education budget on the House floor Monday morning, offering a sharp rebuke to Idaho’s college and university system and casting doubt on the Legislature’s ability to adjourn the 2020 session next week.

Many international, first-generation and low-income students said they fear losing shelter, medical care and food as universities shut down their campuses in an effort to control the spread of COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared Wednesday a pandemic.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dartmouth College is telling its 4,400 undergraduates not to return to campus housing until at least May 1 and to plan for the possibility that they may not return to campus at all during the spring term.

Russia’s ministry of science and higher education recommended higher educational institutions switch to distance learning from Monday, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday.

The UAE has worked hard to earn its title as an advanced and futuristic nation.

As more colleges move to hold remote classes amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. are among tech companies offering deals to attract institutions looking to offer online lessons.

At last count there were more than 285,000 students in the University of California system — and now with its 10 campuses largely shut down, many of those students lack housing, income and other support.

“Stay healthy, stay home,” reads a lit-up sign outside the gates of Princeton University.