Survey Results: Real Estate Education - COVID-19 Emergency Impact
Like most of you, we’ve been working from home since mid March.
It took several weeks and many hours of late night work for faculty and students to make the transition to solely online real estate education at community colleges across California, and the work is ongoing as we settle in to finish the spring 2020 semester and plan for summer and fall.
The good news is, real estate programs were already set up for online success - of the active 65 credit real estate programs at colleges for spring 2020:
25 college real estate programs offered fully online classes before the COVID-19 emergency
30 college real estate programs offered a combination of hybrid and in-person classes
10 college real estate programs offered in-person only real estate classes before the COVID-19 emergency
Now that we’re a little more than a month in to the COVID-19 emergency situation in California, we reached out to you to find out how real estate faculty, community college career education programs, and students enrolled in real estate classes are faring.
We sent this survey via email to 175 real estate faculty at 65 California Community Colleges with active real estate education classes during the spring 2020 semester, and 57 of you responded!
Some of the questions we asked were more open-response, and we’re still working to compile that information into a useful report. Here’s what you had to say: