Category Archives: higher education

Queen sacrifice in Pennsylvania

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit higher education hard in many nations.  In the United States many colleges and universities suffer from virus-caused financial pressures, from decreased enrollment to reductions in state funding.  This has led to all kinds of cuts: … Continue reading →

Posted in coronavirus, higher education | Tagged | 2 Comments

Imagining higher education after three COVID years

What happens if we don’t have a COVID-19 vaccine by early 2021?  Or 2022?  In other words, what might the world look like if the pandemic continues at around the present level for several years? Last week I used this … Continue reading →

Posted in coronavirus, future of education, higher education, scenarios | 3 Comments

Imagining the pandemic continues into 2023: part 2

What happens if we don’t have a COVID-19 vaccine by early 2021?  Or 2022?  In other words, what might the world look like if the pandemic continues for several years? Earlier this week I used this question to generate a scenario … Continue reading →

Posted in coronavirus, futures, higher education | Leave a comment

Will higher education crack down on fraternities and sororities as COVID-19 dangers?

As some American colleges and universities welcome back students on campus, COVID-19 infections are rising.  This has already triggered responses, from moving classes back online preemptively to several Toggle Term events. What about fraternities and sororities?  Do they represent a … Continue reading →

Posted in coronavirus, higher education | 1 Comment

Another Toggle Term: North Carolina State University

This week has seen two American universities choose what I’ve dubbed a Toggle Term.  That means they began the fall semester with in-person education but switched over to wholly online education once infections took off. The first Toggle was the … Continue reading →

Posted in coronavirus, higher education, scenarios | 3 Comments

More campuses head online, another Toggle Term situation, and debates over killing students: today in COVID-19 higher education

It is August 19th, 2020, and fall semester is rushing upon American higher education.  The past few weeks have seen a series of developments, from schools offering rebatesdiscounts to some campuses opening up and experiencing infection spikes to others wrestling … Continue reading →

Posted in coronavirus, higher education | 6 Comments

Which colleges and universities are cutting prices or offering other deals for the upcoming academic year?

How will higher education make the upcoming academic year work? One strategy is to offer new financial inducements to attract enrollment.  This is especially important for campuses concerned about losing students. Such inducements can take several forms.  One is as … Continue reading →

Posted in economics, higher education | 19 Comments

COVID cuts deepen: higher education starts confronting fall 2020 realities

How will higher education be transformed by COVID-19?  How much damage will there be? Back in March I forecasted fierce financial pressures to come as a result of the pandemic.  Others issued similar analyses.  Since then I’ve been tracking how … Continue reading →

Posted in coronavirus, higher education | 9 Comments

How are towns and communities reacting to campuses opening up?

As we look to the fall semester and consider higher education’s unfolding plans, what do campus towns think?  What are people in a school’s immediate community expecting and planning as their local college or university strategizes for autumn? There’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in coronavirus, higher education | 7 Comments

One particular problem with the ICE international student ruling

On July 6th the American Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) ruled that international students would not be allowed in the United States if their classes were entirely online. There are all kinds of problems with this, as I and … Continue reading →

Posted in coronavirus, higher education, scenarios | 8 Comments