The university will still be operational five days per week; different departments will decide how they want to spread days off among workers or whether they can close shop for the same day each week.
The pandemic not only impacted the appeal or availability of college life; it cut into schools' ability to recruit students at remote events, or invite prospective students and families onto campus.
Many institutions have, at least for now, completely or mostly eliminated their typical requirement that standardized test scores be included with prospective students' applications.
Drastic measures put most of the attention on Rider University recently, but it’s certainly not the only institution in New Jersey suffering from declining enrollment.