Educational Technology

April 16, 2021

How 3 megauniversities think local to aid students during natural disasters

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Natalie Schwartz, Highered Dive
Western Governors, Grand Canyon and Southern New Hampshire are using their scale to help students cope with crises in their communities. Western Governors isn’t the only online megauniversity looking out for large-scale disasters that could impede student progress. Southern New Hampshire and Grand Canyon universities, which collectively enroll more than 180,000 students online, have similar but less formal strategies. “It depends on the situation,” said Kelly Palese, Grand Canyon’s senior vice president of faculty operations. “If their internet is down for a day, it’s probably not the end of the world. But we have had students where their houses were flooded and they’re displaced.”Southern New Hampshire takes a similar approach, alerting faculty members and advisers about potential pitfalls and relying on them to craft one-on-one plans with students.

https://www.highereddive.com/news/how-3-megauniversities-get-local-to-help-students-during-natural-disasters/597751/

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