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Beyond COVID: Expect a ‘click and mortar’ approach as colleges emerge from the pandemic
Posted Feb 16, 2021
Westfield State University professor Tarin Weiss teaches a geology class from her Westhampton home in December. (Don Treeger / The Republican file photo)
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When the coronavirus pandemic closed college campuses in March of 2020, administrators initially hoped that some normalcy would return by the fall semester.
That did not happen. Some schools that reopened dormitories had to shut them down again. Others did not reopen their campuses at all, continuing classes online.
Every pandemic in human history has ended, though, and as vaccines are distributed and visions of a COVID-free future are maintained, college officials are reviewing what was lost, learned and accomplished during the past year. ....

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