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Finance teams are leveraging data to increase efficiency. getty The future of work is here. Covid-19 accelerated mega-trends that were taking shape, like hybrid work schedules or virtual customer service. But a less discussed aspect of work is time utilization by high-skilled employees. To find out more about this, I spoke with Efrain Rivera, the …

When the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a statewide lockdown a year ago, schools and educators scrambled to make a transition to online instruction. Rhonda Rabbitt, the dean of Wilkes University’s School of Education, said the pandemic created what she calls “a problatunity.” “I believe that right now we are in the middle of a probletunity,” …

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A $300 million donation to Sanford Health is intended to improve rural care across South Dakota, expand Sanford’s graduate medical education, expand the sports complex in Sioux Falls and build a “virtual hospital of the future,” officials said. The donation comes from the health care system’s namesake, Denny Sanford. “I …

UNCG won’t have its traditional week-long spring break “to limit mass movement of people to and from campus, which has been proven to fuel the spread of the virus here and among our home communities,” the university said its Oct. 13 message. “We know that this is disappointing, but the evidence from the fall clearly …

COLUMBIA, S.C. — An unprecedented global pandemic continued to swirl around them, one of their classmates was just found dead in a quarry, midterm exams pressed down on them, and they had news to gather day after day. And classes to attend. And jobs to work. And sleep — no, very little sleep. The staff …

Debate about the fairness of online learning tends to revolve around technology access. And there are indeed sharp disparities in home access to computers and reliable broadband service. But equity in online learning is more than simply making sure students have decent technology and fast internet. Every student — not just the marginalized and disenfranchised …

Nearly a dozen Texas universities announced Wednesday they would extend students’ spring breaks and start switching to online classes, joining a swelling group of colleges across the country taking steps to prepare their campuses for the novel coronavirus. Most Texas institutions extending their breaks said they plan to use the extra time to prepare faculty …

Professor Jurriaan Ton, a Dutch expert in plant science at Sheffield University, feels British. His son was born here, his family love Yorkshire, and after more than a decade of producing highly cited research in the UK he has invested “massively” in the resources needed to make his blue skies research a success. But if …

Please enable Javascript to watch this video CLIVE, Iowa — With 99 days left until the caucuses presidential campaigns are starting to hit crunch time. At a house party for a “Women for Biden” event Saturday, former second lady Dr. Jill Biden urged voters to commit to a candidate, that candidate being her husband, Joe …

GLOBAL It has become important to consider the long-term impact and disruption that accelerated technological change and intensified economic globalisation will have on universities, as well as on social and economic life. As the world becomes more interconnected and interdependent than ever imagined, technology has generated enormous amounts of wealth, higher incomes, rapid urbanisation and …