The move comes amid nationwide pressure, in higher education and beyond, to retain workers – especially in high-stress service fields – as the Covid pandemic fuels fundamental shifts in societal norms.
Alex Shchegol, the founder and long-time president of ASA College, a for-profit institution with roughly 3,000 students across three campuses in New York City and Florida, first called it quits in 2018 following a lawsuit alleging he used an employee to help him find women to abuse.