With spring break over, Indiana State University is back in session in an online-only format, and it is offering students the option of taking courses satisfactory/unsatisfactory instead of letter grades.

State officials are taking steps to address a “critical need for child care” to assist workers providing essential services.

Indiana State University has suspended on-campus visits for now as it responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, but prospective students can still "visit" online through new virtual tour options.

In South Vermillion School Corp., schools have been closed because of COVID-19 — and now spring break — but teachers have been staying in touch with students and honing their skills as they prepare for a new era of eLearning.

These days, Emily Murray and her 7-year-old daughter, Kate, sit at a table across from each other at their makeshift office — Emily using her laptop to work from home, and Kate using a family laptop to do educational or other activities set up by her mom.

The Vigo County School Corp. has donated hundreds of N95 masks to the Vigo County Emergency Management Agency to aid in the community's response to the COVID-19 crisis.

A big smile across her face, Payton Padgett stood along Tippecanoe Street and held up a large sign that had the names of Franklin Elementary teachers and staff as well as a special message: "We Love You, Falcons Forever." As she did so, a large caravan of those teachers and staff drove by, part of a driving tour of the neighborhood late Tuesday morning, an effort to maintain contact with children who have been out of school since March 13 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Starting April 7, Vigo County's faith-based community is collaborating to provide emergency, school-age child care to essential employees during the COVID-19 crisis.