Colleges and universities have been hit hard by a pandemic that has disrupted traditional ways of learning. And community colleges have been hit the hardest--some experiencing as much as a 21% drop in enrollment last fall. The numbers are alarming--particularly since community colleges have typically seen robust enrollment during economic downturns. We’re beginning to understand … Continue reading At Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Harmonize Connects Students to Learning

OverviewCommodity markets, which we are defining in this white paper as the buying and selling of raw or direct materials, have always carried risk—even before the disruptions wrought by a global pandemic. Produced and processed across complex supplier networks that span multiple countries, commodity markets are subject to geopolitical instability, climate change, regulatory restrictions, and, … Continue reading Eka1: SCM for raw materials and commodities

The holidays are a time for people to renew the traditions that hold them together. A time for us to appreciate the gifts we’ve been given. A time for family, friendship, and hope. In this holiday season, when many of us are seeking ways to make sense of the past year, we’d like to take … Continue reading A Thank You.

By all measures, 2020 has been hard for students and the semester just coming to an end has been no exception. In a survey of college presidents conducted by the American Council on Education, student mental health ranked as their top concern. With good reason. According to a new student viewpoint survey conducted by the … Continue reading In Anxious Times, Students Need Help

In the pharmaceutical industry, serialization is fundamentally about compliance—are your products meeting government-mandated measures for traceability ? In our last blog, we pointed to how industries of all stripes are beginning to adopt serialization to gain better visibility into their supply chains—often in concert with machine learning and AI tools and solutions. Forward-thinking organizations are … Continue reading Driving Insight, Transforming Business

We’re still coming to grips with the pandemic’s effect on our lives, but early data suggests that its impact on college students has been profound. A recent poll found that 77% of students worried whether they would be able to stay in school and graduate. Those percentages are significantly higher for Black and Latino students … Continue reading The Equity Question: Doing Good By Doing Better

Like many of you, we at 42 Lines have been trying to make sense of what it means to be living in a time of pandemic.  As much as we attempt to go about our days and retain our sense of “normalcy,” we know that things are very different than they were on March 15, 2020, when colleges … Continue reading The Future is What We Imagine

Onsite or online, in the classroom or via Zoom, higher education has always been about one thing: the exchange of ideas. But today, new contingencies (let’s call it what it is: a startlingly pernicious pandemic) are changing what it means to “teach.” Online instructors, instructional designers, professors on the tenure track, and adjuncts who are … Continue reading Let’s make a deal. Preparing instructors for a blended world.

Something interesting is happening in the world of online teaching. For some faculty, pivoting to online learning is an opportunity to reassess their curricula and identify what really matters. Others are finding that students are using online tools to ask different, more pointed questions. Still others have remarked on the emergence of a “quiet minority”— students who are … Continue reading What Makes a Good Post and Why That Matters