The pandemic's economic impact has threatened small, private, liberal arts, tuition and discount-dependent colleges. But it may also provide an opportunity to reinvent and transform institutions into more sustainable higher learning enterprises.
As employers, colleges and universities will hear from individuals who are unable or unwilling to come back to campus to do their jobs. Here's what actions HR and managers can take.
At the University of Rochester in New York, students can use the Grubhub app to place meal orders from dining halls and pick up groceries from the campus food market.
The key to completing the fall semester at the University of New Haven—and at colleges across the nation—will be holding community COVID infections down.
The University of New Haven required all students to get coronavirus tests before returning to campus. Complicating these efforts was Connecticut's travel restrictions for people traveling from states with high rates of transmission.
