Erica Uleski fought to help her fellow service members as an Army medic in Iraq, working under brutal conditions to save lives teetering on the edge.

But when she returned to Virginia Beach in 2007 after three tours in Iraq, she found her extensive combat medical experience had little relevance in the civilian health care world, largely because she lacked the required licenses. 

As a group, veterans are often hampered by the difficulty of converting skills gained in wars to private-sector jobs, a lack of strong professional networks, and a culture of treating veterans as charity cases.

An eerie quiet has descended on the partially closed main campus of the University of Washington, following the school's decision to move all classes online whenever possible amid concerns of the coronavirus outbreak.

Several colleges are following the lead of the University of Washington, raising questions that institutions nationwide are now asking: When is the right time to make that call? On what basis? And how easy is it to make the transition?