Daily Lumina News 042320

Some students will have an easier time landing internships during the pandemic because they'll be able to work online and not have to move to an expensive big city. That's one of the surprising bits of good news about education that has come to the attention of Delece Smith-Barrow of The Hechinger Report.
In recent weeks, Smith-Barrow has been uncovering some of these more hopeful stories. She's seen signs that online learning may create more access to higher education for some students, and she's also come across stories of colleges pitching in to offer emergency help.

Few college leaders have taken on the most pressing question many campuses face these days: whether COVID-19 will prohibit them from resuming normal operations in the fall.
The stakes are high. Students wonder whether to pay high-dollar tuition for online courses. Faculty members wonder when they can return to their labs and when their tenure clocks will resume.
But early this week, two institutions announced their intentions—and they differ markedly.

How do we make sense of higher education and its relationship to the economy in the midst of a pandemic that changed the world overnight? Normally, when the economy is down, people go back to school to reinvent their career and gain new skills.
Anthony Carnevale of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce explains why this economic crisis is different, who’s most at risk, and what it means for post-high school education and training.

Many colleges are moving to pass/fail grading as a result of the coronavirus. While that change is designed to help students, it can cause disruptions as community college students transfer to four-year institutions, or as students seek admission to graduate or medical school.
On this episode of The Key With Inside Higher Ed, Anne Kress of Northern Virginia Community College and Marie Lynn Miranda of University of Notre Dame describe how college leaders can help students avoid disruptions from the "asterisk semester."