Editorial: President Mantella shares how GVSU is handling COVID-19 pandemic 

In EdSurge, a national education outlet, President Philomena V. Mantella said in all of her plans as a first-year university president, she couldn't have fathomed a disruption with no guardrails like COVID-19.

"We were forced at a break-neck pace to go fully remote with our delivery of instruction, when just the day before we were weighing its efficacy," she said.

Mantella said with a jolt of this magnitude, with this rapid of an onset, and with this level of uncertainty, the university must lead and make decisions without precedent — a massive challenge.

"We must ensure that students are ready for the rapid pace of change, with the greater uncertainty in their lives and in ours," she said. "This is not an insensitivity to the devastation, but an acknowledgment of our deep obligation as educators to create prosperity on the other side of this virus, so people have hope and meaning in their lives." 

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