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Foreign students currently enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities will have to transfer to schools with some in-person instruction, take reduced course loads, or apply for medical leave to maintain their immigration status. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced its new guidelines on Monday, noting it will not issue new visas to students at schools that have moved all instruction online because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Full House actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli will serve prison time as part of a plea deal in their bribery case. Prosecutors accuse the couple of paying $500,000 to get their daughters admitted to the University of Southern California as fake crew recruits. Fifty people, most of them wealthy parents, faced charges in the scheme to pay students’ way into elite U.S. universities.

The largest four-year public university system in the United States will not allow students back on campus after the summer break. California State University system Chancellor Timothy White announced on Tuesday that the state’s 23 campuses, which closed in March to slow the spread of COVID-19, will hold most classes online when the school year begins again. He said the university will make a few exceptions for “indispensable” instruction and research that must take place in person, such as training for clinical nursing and maritime students.

Last week, with students scattered throughout Europe during spring break, administrators of Lithuania-based LCC International University scrambled. The week began with leaders hoping the 600 or so students on campus—72 percent of whom are from outside Lithuania—would stay out of Italy, a coronavirus hot zone. By week’s end, with coronavirus spreading and much of Europe locking down, they feared what would happen when students returned from places like Germany, France, Spain, and the Netherlands.

Tensions over the Hong Kong protests have been on a low simmer on New York’s college campuses, where 40 percent of international students are from mainland China, according to the Institute of International Education. Less than 1 percent are from Hong Kong. 

Clint Bass was thrilled when his alma mater, Southwest Baptist University (SBU), offered him a job. He graduated from the private Christian school in 2000 and nine years later joined the faculty as church history professor. He and his wife (also an SBU graduate) settled in a modest brick house in small-town Bolivar, Mo., and joined the Baptist church across the street from the school.

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against a group of college applicants who claimed Harvard University unfairly rejected them to keep its Asian American student population artificially low. The group that brought the suit, Students for Fair Admissions, said it plans to appeal.