Higher education will remember April, 2020 as the month the furloughs began. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, colleges across the country sent students home in March and shifted to online instruction. But this month the focus has already moved to addressing the massive revenue losses and cost increases that colleges must absorb, both in the current year and for the upcoming one.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2020/04/19/college-furloughs-have-begun/#761d82d123cd
