Spring Reopening Considerations, Financial Execs Feel Optimistic

(From Inside Higher Ed) What can institutions do to make improvements for the reopening decisions and processes moving forward? Education thought leaders Karen Robinson of Yale University School of Medicine and Anthony Rotoli, CEO of Terra Dotta offer four guiding principles to help campuses prepare to open their doors again in the upcoming spring semester: 

1. Create a COVID addition to the campus code of conduct, and establish a way to document the acknowledgment of shared responsibilities to ensure their institution’s duty of care and the community’s duty of loyalty to the agreed-upon parameters. 
2. Enforce clear consequences for students who choose to not follow new COVID-related codes of conduct related to social distancing and other preventative.
3. Establish a centralized task force composed of participants with the appropriate skill sets to address, manage and be conversant in risk and health topics.
4. Lean in to technology to help manage the process and risks.

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(From FEI) Financial executives are starting to return to pre-pandemic levels of confidence about the future of the economy, according to the “Quarterly Priorities Survey Q3,” by Financial Executives International and Deloitte. The survey found financial executives’ national economic outlook increased to 6.19 on a scale of 1-10 in the third quarter, up from 5.21 in the first quarter. The number of respondents indicating that they were planning to increase headcount also increased for the first time in 2020. “This is the first real shift we have seen in member sentiment since the pandemic began. We are encouraged by this new confidence and believe it will manifest in increased digital transformation and will bring a renewed focus on employee retention, to include the hiring of certain sought-after skills in the accounting profession,” said Andrej Suskavcevic, president and CEO of FEI and the FERF, in a statement. 

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