Wednesday, January 13, 2021

While many colleges are making big cuts, a few opt for permanent transformation - Jon Marcus - Hechinger Report

“What Covid did is it accelerated the innovation. Because in higher education we’re about tradition over innovation,” said Melik Peter Khoury, Unity College's president, casually dressed in a sweater in a conference room of the administration building. Melik Peter Khoury, president of Unity College in Maine, which will continue to offer a choice between in-person and online education, even after the pandemic. Beneath the quiet of the campus, the college has been busy drastically revising its academic calendar, reducing its prices and altering the way it provides education, so that courses are offered both in-person and online, not just during the pandemic, but forever.

https://hechingerreport.org/while-many-colleges-are-making-big-cuts-a-few-opt-for-permanent-transformation/