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If you deal with enrollment matters at schools, you’ll enjoy this podcast with Dr. Olaf Jorgenson: "The Enrollment Pandemic and Prescriptions for Healing”.

https://www.inspiredsm.com/podcasts-1/the-enrollment-pandemic-and-prescriptions-for-healing

Is your school:

Preparing classroom space for social distancing?

Recruiting new students remotely?

Adapting instruction for hybrid learning?

We're offering complimentary one-hour consultations to help you prepare for the fall semester.

Interested? Please get in touch at [email protected].

"Designers might have to reconcile settled science with people’s lingering uneasiness."

How Architecture Could Help Us Adapt to the Pandemic:

How Architecture Could Help Us Adapt to the Pandemic The virus isn’t simply a health crisis; it is also a design problem.

Rethinking School Spaces and Structures to Maintain Proper Distancing Amid

https://spaces4learning.com/Articles/2020/05/08/Rethinking-School-Spaces-and-Structures-to-Maintain-Proper-Distancing.aspx?Page=1

Where are the seams in your school's experience? How might you make it seamless?

Where are the seams in your school's experience? Yesterday, I found myself thumbing through a book I finished in December called User Friendly: How the Rules of Design are Changing the Way we Live, Work, and Play. I landed on a passage I underlined where author Cliff Kuang discusses the challenges of creating consistent, coherent user experienc...

"Once this crisis ends, we will be better off if technology frees up precious class time so that educators and students can engage deeply with each other and build personal connections that will last a lifetime."

Online Learning Should Return to a Supporting Role Winner-take-all economics and cost-cutting may make many in-person lectures obsolete, but the best education continues to be intensive, expensive and done in person.

Here's a handful of ideas about how we might design our offices differently in a post- world. Might any of these apply to the design of our learning spaces?

Our offices will never be the same after COVID-19. Here’s what they could look like Eventually we will have to go back to our offices. But how will work… work?

We've developed three questions for schools to consider as they prepare for the fall semester:

1. How might you expand virtual engagement for accepted and prospective students?

See the rest in our latest newsletter.

Three Questions to Consider for the Fall Semester These are turbulent times. You've likely spent the last few weeks transitioning to remote work, pausing certain projects, and launching new ones. And as you respond to this pandemic, you're also preparing for the fall semester. We've been thinking about how preparation for Fall 2020 might be diff...

"The most immediate challenge [for higher education] is one that could soon spiral into a crisis: It’s hard to sign up this fall’s freshman class when families can’t travel to visit campuses and many international students are shut out of the U.S."

Colleges With Empty Campuses Face an Uncertain Financial Future Endowments are under pressure, and schools don’t know how many freshmen will come to campus in autumn.

How will you keep social media fresh while campus is closed?

Social Media and Remote Learning We've all been sharing our Zoom and Google Meet screenshots on social media lately, myself included. Here's one from my undergraduate product design course.

Don’t Cancel It: How to Hold a “Virtual Graduation Ceremony” https://medium.com//dont-cancel-it-how-to-hold-a-virtual-graduation-ceremony-3a6cc4053b63

Don’t Cancel It: How to Hold a “Virtual Graduation Ceremony” Students are nervous, parents are nervous, schools are nervous. Here’s a possible solution.

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