Meredith College offers employees low-cost Italian getaway

Image:  Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., is doing something else: offering faculty and staff members a low-cost Italian getaway. Meredith—whose study abroad program has long occupied a 16th-century palazzo in Sansepolcro, Tuscany—first offered this kind of trip to...