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Charting a New Normal: Education at Community Colleges

April 23, 2021 Wally Boston

In a recent article “Charting a New Normal,” Inside Higher Ed reporter Lilah Burke provided an interesting contrast of the four-year college plans to return to in-person classes as soon as possible versus community colleges that are not planning to do so.

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Building Back American Job Training in the Post-COVID Era

March 18, 2021 Wally Boston

In a well-written article published by the Fordham Institute, the National Center on Education and the Economy’s President Emeritus Marc Tucker writes about the dual workforce emerging in America after the pandemic.

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Coronavirus: Lessons That We’ve Learned, One Year Later

March 15, 2021 Wally Boston

The first coronavirus article on my blog was published on March 5, 2020. I asked our program director for Public Health, Dr. Samer Koutoubi, M.D., Ph.D., to write a guest post about the effect of the pandemic on our schools.

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The Future of Work after COVID-19: What Will Happen Next?

March 8, 2021 Wally Boston

It’s been a year since most U.S. colleges and businesses shifted to an online, study from home or work from home mode in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Our work and home lives were disrupted, and it’s safe to say that until the country reaches the herd immunity level, our disrupted state will continue.

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Higher Ed: A Day of Reckoning or Is It Business as Usual?

March 4, 2021 Wally Boston

Perhaps it was Rebecca Natow’s article in The Chronicle of Higher Education Review titled “Why Haven’t More Colleges Closed?”. Maybe it was Allison Salisbury’s article in Forbes titled “Building Equitable Upskilling Programs: It’s Not Degree Vs. Short Credentials – It’s Both.” Also, it could be the hundreds — if not thousands — of articles and books about the pending changes in higher ed that have been written and published over the past two decades. Clearly, the most recent two articles cited triggered my motivation to pen this article.

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In Memory of Dr. Robert L. Lamborn – Former Headmaster of McDonogh School

February 25, 2021 Wally Boston

My prep school alma mater, McDonogh School, has an excellent communication system in place to notify alumni of events and items of interest. On February 12, I received an email from the school informing all members of the McDonogh community about the death of former headmaster Bob Lamborn.

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The Complicated Politics of Vital Infrastructure Repairs

February 24, 2021 Wally Boston

For more than two decades, I have heard politicians calling for a national project to repair our infrastructure. Many of our nation’s bridges are beyond their original projected lifespan and will require billions of dollars to repair or replace. But achieving this goal will take years.

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Texas Power Outages: Is It the Weather, the Grid, or Both?

February 18, 2021 Wally Boston

As a recently transplanted resident of Austin (from Baltimore), I have enjoyed the warmer weather this winter. A week ago, the weather team on the local news started making local viewers aware that the temperatures were forecasted to drop precipitously in Texas on Valentine’s Day.

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Student Loan Debt: Should the Federal Government Forgive All or Any of It?

February 10, 2021 Wally Boston

During the Democratic primary campaign for President, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders made no secret that they wanted to forgive student loan debt. Since President Biden’s election, both senators have called on President Biden to discharge student loan debt, which collectively stands at $1.7 trillion.

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Online Teaching Survey Results from Times Higher Education

February 5, 2021 Wally Boston

There have been many articles describing the pivot to online teaching implemented by many colleges and universities around the world as they responded to the social distancing required due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I have written about that in general and about a specific institution’s actions through interviews with the leadership team at Saint Francis University.