Mid-pandemic, the ED weighed in on controversial new requirements for reporting college and university foreign gifts and contracts. UB guest columnists Anne D. Cartwright and Scott Schneider provide background and advice for higher ed institutions.
With campuses closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, career services teams have gotten creative about delivering programs virtually, including events specific to students in particular programs.
College and university leaders must be nimble and open to disruptive, outside-the-box systems thinking—now and in a post-pandemic world, says UB Future Shock columnist James E. Samels.
Higher ed must mobilize students' inquisitiveness, energy and desire to effect change to improve communities—and to help students thrive in a rapidly changing job market and world, says UB guest columnist Eric Skipper, provost for University of South Carolina Beaufort.
A college advising coalition working to increase college access redoubles its efforts to keep high school seniors and juniors focused on college enrollment.
The future will be shaped by those whose education is now preparing them for their contributions to whatever comeback we envision, say UB guest columnists Jo Allen and Andrew K. Benton, of Meredith College and Pepperdine U, respectively. Our investment in students could not be more critical.
Universities that have refunded less than 100 percent due to COVID-19 closures face the prospect of class actions, say UB guest columnists Hyongsoon Kim, Molly Whitman, Robert Pees and Anthony Pierce of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Some have been filed; more are a certainty. Here's why.
Congress should establish a fund to reimburse colleges and universities directly for the refunds they issue to students due to COVID-19, says UB guest columnist Jonathan Krasno, a professor from Binghamton University State University of New York.
Leaders, faculty and staff at Grand Valley State University and The University of Tennessee are reaching out to check on students' well-being and notify them of campus resources.
