Distance ed and information technology (IT) have had to teamed up to boost Wi-Fi on campus and provide students with face-to-face tutoring due to COVID-19. While the relationship between IT and distance-learning staff is often necessity-driven, changes wrought by the coronavirus resulted in more of a "hand-and-glove" approach, where most every interaction led to new and innovative way of presenting curriculum. Although digital education is seizing headlines in the age of COVID-19, the concept of distance learning has been around for decades. This article examines how two-year institutions nationwide are tackling the "new abnormal" with policies meant to ease students and faculty into a transformed academic setting.