If you would like to participate as a remote employer for this fellowship or as a remote leadership specialist please email me at seubank@csustan.edu. You can also reach me on my other social media platforms. Remember Remote Is Here To Stay.

By: Stephanie Diana Eubank

While I have had time off from posting on this blog, I have been bouncing in between working on my dissertation, doing consulting work on remote work and remote leadership development, and developing a postdoc fellowship at Stan State University, which is targeted at helping students find, obtain, and maintain remote work positions. This fellowship is in partnership with the California Department of Rehabilitation, Stan State University School of Business, and The Stan State Student Disability Center to create this year-long program.

The goal of the program is to help students define what modality they are most productive in and work with the lifestyle they want while helping them gain remote employment as an effort to gain experience in remote work. Many companies are hesitant to provide remote work when someone is at an entry-level phase, but developing remote work experience is helpful to these students. This way, they have more experience and education at graduation.

This fellowship comes at a time when employees, according to an article published in Forbes.com, are screaming for remote and hybrid modalities, and students are also joining in the chorus. According to the Forbes article, 65% of workers prefer a 100% modality, with 32% preferring a hybrid. Inside Higher Ed did a recent survey in 2021 of 400 students and found over 27% preferred remote education. While a 2023 survey published by Edscoop.com showed that 69% of students prefer fully remote and hybrid/ blended learning options.

I personally this term has a remote synchronous class, an in-person class, and a hybrid/ hyflex class that I am teaching at Stan State, and honestly, I enjoy my hybrid class most. It allows my students to select the modality that works best for them. I value my students, and as the Dean of the Stan State School of Business often says, “You have to go and meet the students where they are” really rings true. My students have less stress in my hybrid class and seem to have more room to express themselves. However, I will wait for them to give more of their qualitative feedback.

If you would like to participate as a remote employer for this fellowship or as a remote leadership specialist, please email me at seubank@csustan.edu. You can also reach me on my other social media platforms. Remember, Remote Is Here To Stay.

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Work Cited

Weissman, S. (2023, July 7). Online learning still in high demand at Community Colleges. Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/institutions/community-colleges/2023/07/07/online-learning-still-high-demand-community#:~:text=A%202021%20system%20survey%20of,from%20the%20system%20chancellor’s%20office.

McKenzie, L. (2023, June 21). Students prefer online learning, survey finds. EdScoop. https://edscoop.com/students-prefer-online-learning-survey-finds/#:~:text=The%20Time%20for%20Class%202023,hybrid%2C%20or%20blended%20learning%20options.

Haan, K. (2023, July 18). Remote work statistics and trends in 2023. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/remote-work-statistics/#:~:text=Sixty%2Dfive%20percent%20of%20workers,opportunities%20from%20in%2Doffice%20work.