Shifting to remote learning

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. in March 2020. This prompted an abrupt shift from face-to-face to remote instruction in universities globally. In one hard-hit urban region in the Midwestern Rust Belt, a public four-year university, its faculty, students, and staff struggled logistically, financially, academically, psychologically, and otherwise in order to create a working educational community during the pandemic. The social work department and its field education program were severely impacted and developed flexible options so that students could succeed in the classroom as well as in field.