Burlington, Vermont, has become home over the last few years to an invisible economy of people who work remotely for the world’s biggest technology businesses, including Apple, Google, Twitter, and IBM, hundreds and even thousands of miles from these companies’ chic and sprawling headquarters.

Since COVID-19 scattered people from their offices, this trend appears to be speeding up dramatically, with more young, well-paid and well-educated people relocating permanently from big metropolitan areas to small cities across the country.

It’s been a rocky year for California’s first online community college since it first enrolled students.

But with a change in leadership, Calbright College plans to quickly adapt for a post-coronavirus economy. It is adjusting and learning from past mistakes by focusing on hiring more faculty, building a better relationship with the other 115 community colleges across the state, and fixing the student experience.