Higher Education and Life
Attending college or university opens new worlds, which translates to new and enlightened opportunities that can drive dreams into life's concrete reality. While many older higher education students might prefer online courses, because of responsibilities that might require their attention at homes, fresh high school graduates and other young college and university students much rather in-person campus life.
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken an abusive and psychologically disorienting toll on the lives of young adults. Some young people are either withdrawn or lacking in restraints due to utter uncertainty and grief, while quickly losing interest in, perhaps, their own personal future. Much like their younger siblings on the primary and secondary school levels, they are also falling behind in their education.
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Career opportunities appear to be closing fast. Basic job openings are thinning-out to record-lows. The U.S. unemployment rate is at 11.4 percent, and the U.S. job growth rate is at 0.5 percent.
Foreign colleges and university students contribute more than $43 billion per year in the United States. Their presence in U.S. schools also supports jobs. As we look to reenergize the U.S. economy during these challenging times, it is essential that all contributors are equally invited to take their place in helping to light-up the U.S. the economy.
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American colleges and universities, to include all foreign student counterparts, should reopen this coming fall of 2020. Students and their parents are able to make their own decisions on whether to return or not, but they should be afforded the freedom to choose. The US economy cannot and will not be fully opened without the complete availability of U.S. college and university campuses for in-person "social-distancing" social interactions and teaching and learning debates and connections.
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The Sibrid Education Model fits well in the new technological forward movement in education, just a few more steps to full-implementation. Education and all involved are already adjusting. Embracing changes that are occurring now, leads to perfection in what will be, at the realization of post-Covid-19, the new and improved higher education systems and cultures.