“While the switch to distance learning was traumatic at first, I think we're going to end up in a much better place when it's all said and done,” says Scott Shaw, president and CEO of Lincoln Tech which has always taken a hands-on learning approach. That’s because the blended in-person and online learning model emerging from COVID gives the school’s adult students more flexibility to manage their jobs and childcare now that they don’t always have to be on campus to take classes.  Lincoln Tech started 75 years ago to educate WWII veterans in auto mechanics and HVAC.  Now, it has 22 campuses and nearly two dozen programs, including nine in the health professions. In fact, they produce 50% of the LPNs in New Jersey and are hoping to start offering an RN program in the Garden State as well, which has one of the biggest shortages of nurses in the country. In this episode with host Shiv Gaglani, Shaw also discusses the increased interest in health professions due to the pandemic, student debt, and the key traits today’s employers are looking for in their staff.