Varied Institutional Responses to COVID-19: An Investigation of U.S. Colleges’ and Universities’ Reopening Plans for Fall 2020
The authors investigate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) risk factors, suitability of online instruction, politics, and institutions’ finances as rationales guiding instructional delivery decisions for fall 2020, after COVID-19’s emergence. Contributions include estimating multinomial logit regre...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
SAGE Publishing
2022-06-01
|
| Series: | AERA Open |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584221099605 |
| _version_ | 1818545602458288128 |
|---|---|
| author | Tyler D. Blanco Brian Floyd Bruce E. Mitchell II Rodney P. Hughes |
| author_facet | Tyler D. Blanco Brian Floyd Bruce E. Mitchell II Rodney P. Hughes |
| author_sort | Tyler D. Blanco |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The authors investigate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) risk factors, suitability of online instruction, politics, and institutions’ finances as rationales guiding instructional delivery decisions for fall 2020, after COVID-19’s emergence. Contributions include estimating multinomial logit regressions with mode of delivery as a categorical variable, integrating resource dependence and crisis response as theoretical frames, and introducing new predictor variables, including a measure of local residential access to broadband Internet. Findings suggest that county populations, local political preferences, and the percentage of revenue derived from auxiliary enterprises were consistent predictors of delivery mode. Political parties of an institution’s governor and congressional representative were predictive of delivery mode for institutions in the lowest tercile of endowment per student but not for institutions in the highest tercile. Bottom-tercile institutions substituted from online to in-person reopening as reliance on revenue from auxiliary enterprises increased, but top-tercile institutions appeared only to substitute from hybrid to in-person or from online to hybrid delivery as revenue from auxiliary enterprises or tuition and fees increased. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-12T07:42:15Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-7fa09181802c4d15aad228f2a9428d0b |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2332-8584 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-12T07:42:15Z |
| publishDate | 2022-06-01 |
| publisher | SAGE Publishing |
| record_format | Article |
| series | AERA Open |
| spelling | doaj.art-7fa09181802c4d15aad228f2a9428d0b2022-12-22T00:32:44ZengSAGE PublishingAERA Open2332-85842022-06-01810.1177/23328584221099605Varied Institutional Responses to COVID-19: An Investigation of U.S. Colleges’ and Universities’ Reopening Plans for Fall 2020Tyler D. BlancoBrian FloydBruce E. Mitchell IIRodney P. HughesThe authors investigate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) risk factors, suitability of online instruction, politics, and institutions’ finances as rationales guiding instructional delivery decisions for fall 2020, after COVID-19’s emergence. Contributions include estimating multinomial logit regressions with mode of delivery as a categorical variable, integrating resource dependence and crisis response as theoretical frames, and introducing new predictor variables, including a measure of local residential access to broadband Internet. Findings suggest that county populations, local political preferences, and the percentage of revenue derived from auxiliary enterprises were consistent predictors of delivery mode. Political parties of an institution’s governor and congressional representative were predictive of delivery mode for institutions in the lowest tercile of endowment per student but not for institutions in the highest tercile. Bottom-tercile institutions substituted from online to in-person reopening as reliance on revenue from auxiliary enterprises increased, but top-tercile institutions appeared only to substitute from hybrid to in-person or from online to hybrid delivery as revenue from auxiliary enterprises or tuition and fees increased.https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584221099605 |
| spellingShingle | Tyler D. Blanco Brian Floyd Bruce E. Mitchell II Rodney P. Hughes Varied Institutional Responses to COVID-19: An Investigation of U.S. Colleges’ and Universities’ Reopening Plans for Fall 2020 AERA Open |
| title | Varied Institutional Responses to COVID-19: An Investigation of U.S. Colleges’ and Universities’ Reopening Plans for Fall 2020 |
| title_full | Varied Institutional Responses to COVID-19: An Investigation of U.S. Colleges’ and Universities’ Reopening Plans for Fall 2020 |
| title_fullStr | Varied Institutional Responses to COVID-19: An Investigation of U.S. Colleges’ and Universities’ Reopening Plans for Fall 2020 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Varied Institutional Responses to COVID-19: An Investigation of U.S. Colleges’ and Universities’ Reopening Plans for Fall 2020 |
| title_short | Varied Institutional Responses to COVID-19: An Investigation of U.S. Colleges’ and Universities’ Reopening Plans for Fall 2020 |
| title_sort | varied institutional responses to covid 19 an investigation of u s colleges and universities reopening plans for fall 2020 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584221099605 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT tylerdblanco variedinstitutionalresponsestocovid19aninvestigationofuscollegesanduniversitiesreopeningplansforfall2020 AT brianfloyd variedinstitutionalresponsestocovid19aninvestigationofuscollegesanduniversitiesreopeningplansforfall2020 AT bruceemitchellii variedinstitutionalresponsestocovid19aninvestigationofuscollegesanduniversitiesreopeningplansforfall2020 AT rodneyphughes variedinstitutionalresponsestocovid19aninvestigationofuscollegesanduniversitiesreopeningplansforfall2020 |