Richard Merriman Jr. is the former president of the University of Mount Union, in Ohio. Bryan Boatright is the assistant vice president for academic affairs and university registrar. Like almost all other small private colleges with residential campuses, the past three months have tried our community in previously unthought of ways. The coronavirus and the […]
Dive Brief: About half of college students said they wanted to hear more from their financial aid offices during the spring term, according to a recent survey from Ithaka S+R, a research and consulting group. More than 15,000 students across 21 colleges answered the...
Dive Brief: More students will likely opt to attend college closer to home as a result of the pandemic, a shift that stands to hurt institutions that rely heavily on out-of-state enrollees, explains a new Moody’s Investors Service report. Meanwhile, states that...
Cathy Sandeen is the chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage Although we’re in various stages of coronavirus lockdown, not all leadership searches have ground to a halt. Certainly, pausing a search during this pandemic is a valid approach, but other...
WHEN the COVID-19 pandemic started in Wuhan, China in late 2019, no one envisaged it will get to this point where almost every activity has been brought to a stand still the world over. We saw it as a Chinese problem until Nigeria had its index case in February....
