The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic created countless challenges in higher education at every level. At the faculty level, one such challenge was how to convert applied internships into online academic capstone courses in the middle of the semester. For programs that require their majors to complete internships as part of a graduation…

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic threw a curve ball into everyone's spring teaching schedule. But for those of us who were a week away from taking their students overseas, it was a game changer. How do you create make-up material for one and a half credit hours while staying true to the course objective of "understanding…

When 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) arrived with vengeance, face-to-face colleges were scrambling to brainstorm and problem-solve how to best deliver the curriculum in a physically safe manner to complete the semester. At Air University, the intellectual and leadership development center of the Air Force, eSchool of Graduate Professional…

This essay discusses one campus's response to the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic. We explore the issues our campus faced and how we tackled the challenge through cross-functional team building. By prioritizing teaching and learning, we were able to navigate the inherent ambiguity of the public health crisis with flexibility and transparency.…

The 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic prompted faculty across the country to pivot their in-person courses to ones that could be offered virtually. Some faculty learned quickly that economically challenged students had difficulty accessing resources that suddenly became remote. In this reflective essay, we highlight the experiences of five social…

This essay details the process of transitioning an in-person, undergraduate honors seminar on the global coffee trade to an online course as a result of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Due to the course's demand for physical proximity, specific challenges emerged involving course design and active learning. This essay considers…

The 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic disrupted higher education during spring 2020 by forcing all face-to-face classes to unexpectedly transition to online learning. To better understand how switching to remote learning affected students and the factors that impacted their ability to successfully complete classes, we asked 168 undergraduate…

The creative arts use primarily visual, kinesthetic, and somatic modes of teaching that depend on face-to-face communication in contrast to many other university subjects that rely more heavily on the written word. The hands-on, practice-based nature of art education makes it perhaps one of the least transferrable subjects to a fully online model.…

Educators across the world have been forced to shift their courses online due to the COVID19 pandemic. As face-to-face courses become online courses during this unprecedented time, instructors are thrown into emergency remote teaching (ERT). Where online learning involves "experiences that are planned from the beginning and designed to be…

In times when the humanities at large have suffered reductions in enrollments, the ability to build student communities has been seminal to the survival of many departments. Building student communities for language departments in particular includes planning conversation hours, movie nights, and cultural events aimed at attracting students and…

This case study will describe the rapid transition our Office of Student Success and Advising and Office of Admissions made from March 11 to April 7, 2020 in shifting all academic advising and new student orientation (NSO) from in-person to remote efforts due to the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic. The Office of Student Success and Advising…

Teaching pedagogical seminar courses require interactive, hands-on sessions. However, as schools across the United States pivoted online on very short notice amid the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, several adjustments had to be made, including to the delivery of lessons and forms of communication. In this article, I provide visual narratives…

This essay reflects on the experiences of faculty members at a large public university as they responded to the demand for online learning caused by the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic. It explores themes of course delivery, assessment methods, and faculty-student interactions and how these themes inform faculty identity. The authors suggest…

he author, an assistant professor in an aviation maintenance technology (AMT) program, teaches future aviation maintenance technicians at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). Certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the AMT program is a pathway to becoming a licensed aviation maintenance technician and offers an AMT Associate…