I am on my way to California to attend a two day gathering of Higher Ed leaders. It was approximately 3 years ago when COVID struck us big time, caught us unawares and all hell broke lose. I admire the swiftness with which the senior administration at Wellesley took action. Having a respected physician, Dr Paula Johnson, as the president helped and especially her leadership in a group of Higher Eds in Massachusetts.

I am also very proud of the fact that we, in LTS, are one of the very few organizations who decided to take on the technology responsibilities needed to support our COVID testing and related matters without needing a paid vendor solution. And I think we did a great job and by making the right choices, we saved the College money and served our community better. What we did was a tremendous amount of work and describing all will take a long time, so I will describe just a few highlights here.

(more…)