Universities across the country lost enrollment to COVID-19. As students return, Texas A&M is making sure adequate mental-health services are in place to help them navigate the "new normal." Mary Ann Covey, director of the student counseling center at Texas A&M University, said students quit or did not enroll because of illness and the ever-changing safety measures required at higher-ed institutions some found disruptive or even intolerable. Covey recounted as the pandemic raged on, some students created their own ways to cope while others felt lost. .
Madera Community College outside Fresno is making big plans after being named winner of the Million Dollar Community College Challenge Wednesday. Lumina Foundation sponsored the challenge for the first time this spring, to help colleges reach more potential adult students. Angel Reyna, president of Madera Community College, said the funds will help the school attract more adult students who need to boost their skills and their job prospects. .
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Jill Robinson Kramer serves as owner and principal consultant of JRK Consulting, LLC. Her clients include both local and national nonprofit and education institutions where she focuses on strategic planning, project management, meeting facilitation, evaluation, and grant writing. She started consulting as her primary work more than two years ago so she could spend more time as a baseball, basketball, and robotics mom. Her previous roles include vice president for innovation strategy at Strada Education Network; associate vice president for planning, research, and grants at Ivy Tech Community College; senior program officer at Lumina Foundation for Education; and associate director of special events at the Hudson Institute.
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Universities were already in big trouble when 2020 rolled around. The combination of skyrocketing tuition (up more than double the rate of inflation since 1980) and an increasingly inferior education had made college a hard sell for many American families, and demographic trends looked likely to put further pressure on declining enrollments. But that was all B.C. Before Covid-19, which is shaping up to be a potentially lethal event for the American academy.
When the virus emptied campuses in mid-March of 2020, schools had to refund payments for spring room and board and forgo income from sports, while still paying coaches. Small colleges lost millions in revenues, and big universities lost hundreds of millions. Professors scrambled to adapt to an online medium that was unsuited to teaching and learning across a range of disciplines, from performance arts to laboratory science. Students found themselves back in their parents’ homes, staring at classes on Zoom, from which