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Most college students in Vermont are eager to re-enroll for the fall semester, but online learning and financial concerns are dampening their enthusiasm.
As the fall semester gets closer, higher education leaders are finalizing complex plans about reopening campuses safely, plans that must be able to change at a moment's notice as the pandemic continues.
In response to the COVID pandemic, educators at Champlain College in Vermont created a virtual 15-week, for-credit program for 2020 high school graduates. Through real-time instruction and collaboration with professors and mentors, students explore college life, holistic well-being and career options.
Colleges and universities announce layoffs, furloughs, program reductions and other budget cuts as COVID economy saps enrollment, fundraising and other revenues.
American Univesity, like many colleges, has canceled fall break, but administrators there plan to replace the time off with career readiness and skills development programs.
Continuing online classes, suspending large lectures and delaying the semester are among the contingency plans colleges and universities are making, according to published reports.
