Bob Sell, chairman of the Lafayette College Board of Trustees, called Nicole Farmer Hurd a visionary who has done great work to improve access to higher education and will bring the strength the school needs to find its way in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Lafayette College President Alison Byerly will become the 12th president of Carleton College, a top-ranked liberal arts college in Minnesota.

Alison Byerly, the 17th president of Lafayette College in Easton, and its first woman president, will be step down at the end of the academic year.

Lafayette College in Easton has become the second school in the region to announce it will be sticking to online courses for the fall. East Stroudsburg University made a similar announcement last week.

Lafayette College is providing isolation space where first responders in Easton can quarantine if they are exposed to the coronavirus.

The engineering division at Lafayette College in Easton has begun using 3-D printers to make medical supplies for first responders and hospital staff.

The move to close colleges and universities amid the COVID-19 outbreak has led many students and families to wonder if they would get some type of refund for losing access to housing, dining services and other amenities they already paid for.

As buildings age and tastes change, college campuses in the Lehigh Valley are meeting the demands of their students by expanding their facilities or, in some cases, building new ones

City Center Investment Corp. of Allentown and Lafayette’s Dyer Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship said they launched The Real Estate Lab, a program to teach downtown Allentown residents about real estate investing, with the goal of helping them become successful.