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How will the pandemic transform college as we know it?
As the uncertainty about the pandemic’s impact on the future of college continues to unfold, there is a wide range of speculation, starting with school this fall. Should colleges plan for an online fall, delay the whole semester, or just plan for a regular semester?
Should social distancing be enforced by individual states, there could be a potpourri of fall openings. Such measures for a successful fall opening would involve getting students, faculty, and staff tested, reducing the number of students per class, integrating rotating schedules, offering a hybrid of online and in-person classes; the list goes on and on.
But underneath all of the operational questions for each college lies the financial question. What is the financial health of the college? Even though no one was prepared for anything like the pandemic, some colleges will be hit harder than others. That's because of three factors:
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As we deal with the current shutdown of the majority of our society due to the virus, what's next when it comes to the college process? Many things are changing radically, but it would be premature to say that a college degree will become worthless; college is still the brass ring for most Americans. So what can you do during this time? I suggest that students and parents think out of the box. Sure, short-term, it is pretty chaotic right now, with information changing rapidly. But, keeping a level head through this situation can help. For example, parents of Juniors could flip the "normal" college-prep sequence and start key aspects of the application process a couple of months early.
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Education is one of the first sectors of our society to pivot to remote strategies. Depending on your school, whether that is high school or college, professors and teachers have been thrown into a new reality of online education. For some less technologically-savvy teachers who are forced to get creative and learn new online teaching techniques, it is likely to be a very tough transition. But if it is already tough for the teachers, how are their students expected to fare?
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