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Last week, the Daily sat down with Chief Risk and Compliance Officer and Senior Associate Vice President Luke Figora to discuss Northwestern’s COVID-19 response, vaccination plans and student testing. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. The Daily: Does the University have a threshold for implementing a Wildcat Wellness quarantine in the middle of a quarter?  Figora: I don’t think there’s a hard metric in terms of number of positive cases or a specific positivity threshold that we’ve hit that we can flip that trigger. We’ve tried to think about it more as, “Is ...

12 Inspiring Female B-School Deans Share Leadership Lessons Read full article The world’s top women who lead business schools share what they’ve learned “To confront any kind of uncertainty, you need to be flexible.” Francesca Cornelli could tell you a thing or two about leading during a crisis. A veteran of the business school scene, previously holding positions at global heavyweights London Business School, the LSE, Duke Fuqua and The Wharton School, Cornelli has steered Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management through one of the most challenging years for academic institutions...

March 4, 2021 at 12:18 pm by Sindhu Ananthavel Following the UC’s announcement in January that it is planning for a return to in-person instruction next fall, UC Santa Barbara students and faculty have responded to the prospect of in-person instruction with feelings of both tentative hope and wariness.  Only a handful of classes have been held in person this academic year, but more professors are inching closer to holding in-person classes. Melody Wang / Daily Nexus UC President Michael V. Drake said that forecasts of the COVID-19 pandemic are optimistic for “a more no...

Gap year students reflect on time off Katherine Tuohy was certain she’d never take a gap year. Tuohy said she was completely opposed to taking time off before college. The idea of arriving at Northwestern kept her hopeful as she finished her senior year of high school during the pandemic. Then NU announced that the majority of campus would stay closed through Fall Quarter, forcing her to reconsider. Tuohy, who intends to study theater, said she didn’t want to struggle with acting classes over Zoom or live her first year of college completely off campus. At the same time, the prospect of p...

School delays course-bidding as students decry plan to have only 16% of classes hybrid/in-person The post COVID Backlash At Kellogg: MBA Students Protest Low Volume Of In-Person Classes appeared first on Poets&Quants.