Not all of their innovations will end when the virus wanes.
Some of the technology, protocols and workarounds created or embraced during the pandemic will continue.
"We had to pivot to deal with a lot of different things through the pandemic," said Laura Zirkle, Mercyhurst University vice president of student life and the university's chief pandemic officer. "It really made us take another look at things that we'd done for years and how we can do them differently."
"One of the interesting offshoots of the pandemic is how much we're learning about ourselves and about things that we can do better," said Doug Oathout, chief of staff and director of marketing and communications at Gannon University.