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Voices from the Field: Episode #8

Normal Business Doesn’t Stop: Maintaining Operations while Expanding Services

By: Rick Miranda, Provost and Executive Vice President, Colorado State University

Colorado State University Provost and Executive Vice President Rick Miranda shares what his team learned during their COVID-19 response: upgrading their teams’ ability to communicate regularly was what kept things moving forward, allowing critical everyday elements to proceed without interruption.

Abstract: In response to COVID-19, Colorado State University beefed up its online systems, created specialized pandemic teams, and built a robust website with information for teachers, students, workers, and researchers. Learn from Provost and Executive Vice President Rick Miranda what they also discovered: upgrading their teams’ ability to communicate regularly was what kept things moving forward, allowing critical everyday elements to proceed without interruption.

Institutions Mentioned: Colorado State University-Fort Collins
Planning Types: Continuity Planning
Tags: Communication, COVID-19, Online Learning, Response Planning

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Planning for Higher Education Journal

Published
April 1, 1998

Dealing With the Press

By: John Burness

From Volume 26 Number 3 | Spring 1998

Abstract: Book review of Truth and Consequences: Colleges and Universitites Meet Public Crises, by Jerrold Footlick. ACE/Oryx Press, 1997. 192 pages. ISBN 0-89774-970-7. Pull quotes: "The press is not likely to change how it operates, so universities need to learn how to deal with the media more skillfully."

Institutions Mentioned: Stanford University, University of Utah, University of Georgia, University of South Carolina-Columbia, University of Virginia-Main Campus, Brown University, Ohio State University-Main Campus, CUNY Queens College
Tags: Communication

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