Instructors unfamiliar with e-learning when a university or college is closed due to coronavirus can be brought up to speed quickly.

With summer approaching, UB guest columnists Catherine Guttman-McCabe and Isaac Mamaysky of Potomac Law Group provide a checklist for the three major risk categories.

Colleges and universities must rethink the way they approach admissions, program offerings and business operations to ensure they can survive and thrive, says UB guest columnist Mark Lombardi, president of Maryville University in St. Louis.

Coronavirus has pushed more than 130 colleges online and the number is growing quickly, ushering in an online education era that came sooner than many expected. Conference cancellations also begin to mount.