April 15, 2020
COVID-19 Resources for Higher Education
brightspot is on a mission to make higher education more engaging, equitable, and impactful. Recent months have made this mission even more challenging – and even more important – as we confront a global public health crisis that has changed how we live, learn, and work. The health, safety, and success of families, friends, clients, collaborators, students, faculty, and staff are all under threat.
As we continue to move our projects forward while ensuring the health and safety of our team, we want to do what we can to help higher education weather the storm and maybe even find ways to emerge from this crisis stronger than before – with people better connected to information, opportunities, and each other.
We’ve compiled a list of our thinking as well as predictions, assessments, and other articles we’ve found helpful in planning for the future and navigating the present. Please get in touch if you have questions, have a suggested resource, or would like our help.
As fall plans change, you can use our free Adaptive Campus Planner tool to adapt everything from courses to housing to student health. Sign up for a free webinar on August 6 at 2pm EST to learn how to use it! Register here.
brightspot Resources
- Adaptive Campus Planner: Your Resource for Pivoting Your Existing Plan
- Using Service Design to Transform Higher Education
- Providing More Equitable and Inclusive Support
- Organizational Design for Alignment and Agility
- Tips for Successful Strategic Planning
- Higher Education Change Management Guide
- Five Ways to Better Support First Generation Students
- Designing your Instructional Technology Support Model for Online and Hybrid Courses
- Mapping the Student Journey from Applicant to Alum
- Lessons on Understanding and Improving your Student Experience
- Five Tactics for Immediate Institutional Change
Predictions on the Future of Higher Education
- Byran Alexander COVID-19 in 2020 Several Scenarios
- Bryan Alexander COVID-19 versus higher ed: the downhill slide becomes an avalanche
- Scott Galloway, NYU Stern: Post Corona: Higher Ed
- Paul Leblanc, SNHU: The Coronavirus: Is this Higher Education’s Black Swan Event?
- Phil Hill, Mindwires: Two out of Five President’s Considering Online Options for Fall 2020
- Joshua Kim, Dartmouth/Inside Higher Ed: Teaching and Learning After COVID-19
- Frankki Bevins, Jake Bryant, Charag Krishnan, and Jonathan Law, McKinsey: Coronavirus: How should US higher education plan for an uncertain future?
- Goldie Blumenstyk‘s How the Coronavirus Is Prompting Higher-Ed Grantmakers to Change Course
- Derek Newton, Forbes: Five Ways COVID-19 Will Impact Fall College Enrollments
- AACSB Business Education Intelligence, Anticipated Positive Impacts of COVID
- Paul Friga, The Chronicle of Higher Education: How to Steer Your Campus Through a Recession
- Paul Friga, The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Great Recession was Bad for Higher Education, Coronavirus Could be Worse
Assessment to Inform Future Planning
- Inside Higher Ed: Presidents Fear Financial, and Human, Toll of Coronavirus
- Inside Higher Ed: Will they Return? Surveys Suggest Tough Times for Most Colleges
- Educause Quickpoll on Help for Students Learning Remotely
- Bryan Alexander, Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, and others List of campuses moving online
- Poets & Quants: A Third of Admits May Defer, While 43% Want Tuition Lowered if Classes are Online
- Niche.com Impact of Coronavirus on Students’ Academic Progress and College Plans
- Fuse Marketing: How Gen Z is Reacting to COVID19
- Ithaka S+R: Library closures survey
- Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Map and Dashboard
- Weeden, Cornwell, and Schneider: The Small World Network of College Classes: Implications for Epidemic Spread on a University Campus
- Dan Bauman, The Chronicle of Higher Education: How Much Coronavirus Stimulus Money Will Your College Get? Take a Look
Articles and Tools We’ve Found Useful
- Wired Magazine on Scenario Planning: How to Build Scenarios
- Amy Webb on Scenario Planning: How Futurist’s Cope with Uncertainty
- The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice Supporting Students During COVID-19: The #RealCollege Guide
- Zipporah Osei’s First Gen Newsletter
- Hechinger Report on the perspective of A Working Parent in College
- NYTimes: College Made Them Feel Equal. The Virus Exposed How Unequal Their Lives Are
- Mandy Brown: The Hard Way (Leading Remote Teams When the World is on Fire)
- Harvard Business Review: That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
- EDUCAUSE Review: Emotional and Affective Labor
- Needs assessment tools in the Learning Space Toolkit
- Compilation of Remote Teaching Resources by Daniel Stanford, DePaul University
- EDUCAUSE Review: The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning
- Mindwires: Traversing the Edge of Chaos: Preparations for a Post-COVID World
- NYU Shanghai Digital Teaching Toolkit
- MLA’s Bringing Your Course Online
- Modus Create’s Remote Work Guide
- Zoom security tips to prevent Zoombombing
Webinars
- brightspot’s Adaptive Campus Planner Webinar
- brightspot’s Delivering Support Services Online (and Improving On-Campus Services When You Reopen)
- Knoll’s K. Talks Insights The Post-pandemic Campus is Connected, Flexible, and Resilient