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Questrom’s New Online MBA a Hit Questrom’s Online MBA serves people who don’t have two years to spare for a residential MBA program or $100,000 to pay for it. Photo by Janice Checchio Digital Learning Students commend price, flexibility, and a different learning model April 6, 2021 Twitter Facebook Down in New Orleans, Jermaine Smith had a quandary. The veteran nonprofit executive wanted an MBA to pump up his skills and his earning potential. But with a family and a mortgage, he didn’t have two years to spare for a residential MBA program or the $100,000 to pay for it. ....
Twitter Facebook Disruption has always been a constant in the workplace but the COVID-19 pandemic has brought on more change than anyone could have expected (or predicted). For example, before the pandemic only 17 percent of Americans were working remotely five-plus days a week. Now, almost half of the US workforce (44 percent) is fully remote, according to Statista Research Department. Remote or not, over seven million employees have seen their wages drop since March and many others have had their pay frozen. And the economic fallout from the pandemic did not stop with wage decreases and freezes: in April 2020, the unemployment rate jumped to a level not seen since the 1930s. Everyone felt the changes and challenges that the pandemic unexpectedly thrust on businesses of all sizes, structures, and industries. ....
New London Tom and Susan Fournier drove from Westport to New London early Monday morning intent on being among the first to get vaccinated at Yale New Haven Health’s COVID-19 vaccination site at Mitchell College. They arrived outside the low-slung section of the Student Center that houses the De Biasi Drive site at 6:30 a.m. two hours before their scheduled appointments, which their daughter had helped them arrange. “We didn’t know what to expect,” Tom said. “We heard there might be long lines.” The site, manned by staff from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, a Yale New Haven Health affiliate, functioned smoothly at the start Monday, with vaccinators expecting to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to 131 people by the end of the day. All of those receiving the shots currently reserved for residents 75 and older as part of the state’s phased rollout of the vaccine had made appointments in advance. ....