Provide at-home connectivity for higher education students and staff

Higher education IT leaders began last school year focused on digital transformation, advancing smart campus initiatives and addressing cybersecurity challenges in order to improve the student experience. The idea that a highly contagious virus would shutter campuses and that colleges and universities would need to transition temporarily to all remote learning was likely unimaginable.

Colleges and universities rose to meet the challenge. Online learning curriculums were deployed, video conferencing tools put faculty back in front of their students and schools offered lending programs for laptops and tablets. For the 2020-2021 school year, many colleges and universities find themselves thrust back into remote teaching and learning. As the COVID-19 pandemic keeps campuses empty and turns kitchen tables into lecture halls, a spotlight is put on the need for at-home broadband connectivity. More specifically, how colleges and universities can help connect students, faculty and staff to school systems and services when they are off campus.