Terms like face-to-face, virtual learning and hybrid classes have rapidly become commonplace throughout higher education. Baylor has invested time and resources to equip professors to engage students at the highest levels in both traditional and non-traditional classrooms. In this Baylor Connections, Dr. Gary Carini, vice provost for institutional research and professional education and professor of entrepreneurship and corporate innovation, analyzes how COVID-19 accelerates shifts throughout higher education, shares how Baylor is proactively helping professors thrive in this environment and casts a vision that Baylor is pursuing as a recognized leader in teaching, engaged and research amidst these new models.