The beginning of the semester isn't starting as Zia Huballah had hoped. She's a junior at Emory University. The school announced about a month ago it would be mostly online.

The coronavirus has forced about one-third of all colleges to teach remotely. In many cases, that means classrooms are being replaced by childhood bedrooms or kitchen tables. And for students like Huballah, it also means scrambling to get the technology they need to take their classes.

Kenosha, Wisconsin, a city of 100,000 people, is now in the news as yet another site where police shot a Black man. A viral video shows an officer firing seven shots into the back of 29-year-old Jacob Blake on Aug. 23. Three of his children reportedly saw what happened from his car.

This is “one episode” in a “long history” of racial inequities, if you know Wisconsin’s past, says Dr. Katherine Hilson of Carthage College in Kenosha.

Consumers and employers increasingly are turning to short-term, online alternatives to the college degree, and alternative credential pathways are projected to grow in popularity.

In this podcast, Paul Freedman of the Learning Marketplace at Guild Education and WorkingNation's Jane Oates discuss how high-quality, industry-driven credentials can quickly help people find and keep better jobs.