Despite challenges posed by COVID-19, the Basking Ridge-based company made significant progress toward implementing and executing its digital transformation strategy and enhancing relevance to its customers, particularly given the pandemic shift to remote learning.

Students, teachers and parents aren't the only parties gearing up for a new kind of academic year: School-adjacent businesses are contending with a drastic shift in what business has been available to them since March, and will be available to them come September.

The strategy, being employed by schools across the state for their restart, has been a non-starter with Gov. Phil Murphy.

Three-hundred e-scooters from the Chicago-based company will be available for use by students, faculty, administrators and visitors this fall.

The school is offering flexibility for coeds with in-person, online and HyFlex options that will reduce density on campus, allowing for social distancing and safety.

The aid can be used for costs including those related to cleaning and disinfecting supplies, the transition to online learning and support for testing.

The announcement also includes men's and women's cross country, field hockey, men's and women's soccer and women's volleyball, along with championship games and conference tournaments.

The school previously planned to have first-year students and juniors on-campus from August until just before Thanksgiving, but changed protocol, saying health risks are too high for in-person instruction.

“In addition to state policy restricting what we can do this fall, we recognize numerous concerning factors, including the surge and resurgence of the virus nationally and locally, overburdened service and supply chains that interrupt our ability to satisfy health and safety protocols, and rising infection rates for younger people,” The College of New Jersey President Kathryn Foster said in a university-wide email.

The award will support increased outreach to local high schools and community colleges to educate students about financial planning, and encourage more interest in careers in the field.

Courses will be available in the fall 2020 trimester to graduate students and undergraduate students in accelerated programs.

The reduction works out to an approximate savings of $1,438.