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Current Events

America Is Divided into Four Groups That May Never Agree

June 14, 2021 Wally Boston

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George Packer, author of soon-to-be-released "Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal" among other books, is also a staff writer for The Atlantic. Mr. Packer just wrote an excerpt from his latest book for the most recent issue of The Atlantic.

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Hybrid Work: The Future for Office and Higher Ed Employees

June 10, 2021 Wally Boston

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In a recently published Wall Street Journal article, Chip Cutter writes that it took months for the transition required to coordinate bosses and employees working remotely. Mr. Cutter also noted that it may be even longer before employers and employees adjust to working together again.

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Business of Education

COVID-19 and Reconnecting Disrupted Learners to Education

June 9, 2021 Wally Boston

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In a Strada Education Network article, “What Will Reconnect Disrupted Learners to Education?,” Paul Fain writes that the number of learners whose education was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic a year ago but who intended to return to education within six months has decreased.

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What I Would Like to See: Returning to Normal after COVID-19

June 8, 2021 Wally Boston

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With the number of COVID-19 infections decreasing thanks to masking and vaccinations, many governors have released the mask usage and other restrictions that kept many of us at home since last March.

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Cost of a Degree

Higher Education State Funding: Up in 2020, Down in FY 2021

June 1, 2021 Wally Boston

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The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) has collected data on state support for higher education for more than 10 years. The final report for fiscal year (FY) 2020 was just issued.

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Will We Return to Offices or Continue to Work from Home?

May 11, 2021 Wally Boston

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During the pandemic, I’ve followed a number of articles and papers that discuss the potential impact if companies/institutions allow a substantial portion of their workers to continue to work from home. Among the suggested outcomes are that demand for commercial office space will shrink and people will move out of the cities since commuting time is no longer an issue.

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Charting a New Normal: Education at Community Colleges

April 23, 2021 Wally Boston

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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

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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

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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

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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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