The state of Ohio is fortunate enough to be home to roughly 245 insurance-related companies, which offer a myriad of career opportunities. When we think of insurance careers, they are usually associated with sales agents, claim managers in call centers, and adjusters. This is primarily because the ads we see feature characters like Jake from State Farm or Flo from…

 If Charles Scharf’s comments on the summer conference call were reframed as a question, it might have been, “how and where do we find the talent pool we want to recruit from?” His comments were candid, and the delivery was off, but the overall tenor was not wrong. More importantly, Mr. Scharf did not try to walk them back using…

 Now the question that remains is: how will donor relations recover from this pandemic? When can gift officers hope to return to some semblance of normalcy, will there be lasting impediments to higher education fundraising that result from this crisis? There are no definite answers at this point, but some blurry outlines about the future are beginning to emerge.

By Zillah Fluker, Ph.D. and Staci Jones Sweeping across the globe at a rapid pace, the COVID-19 pandemic has left society scrambling in its wake and has exposed faults and incongruences in many long-standing systems. Particularly hard hit are industries that traditionally emphasize face-to-face interaction—like educational systems. As a safety measure in the U.S., thousands of higher education institutions ranging…