Malika Jeffries-EL: Expanding Graduate Education’s Career Opportunities, and Its Diversity
New GRS associate dean for graduate education reflects on its future amid the COVID-19 pandemic and America’s racial reckoning.
All My Pronouns
How I learned to live with the singular “they”.
COVID-19 is a Pivotal Moment for Struggling Students. Can Colleges Step Up?
Elizabeth Ouanemalay slips on rubber gloves and wraps a black scarf with pink hearts around her face before venturing outside. She obsessively counts how many door handles she touches on the journey to pick up each of her meals: six. No one wants Covid-19, but she really doesn’t want it. She has lupus, an autoimmune disease.
College Made Them Feel Equal. The Virus Exposed how Unequal Their Lives Are.
When they were all in the same dorms and eating the same dining hall food, the disparities in students’ backgrounds weren’t as clear as they are over video chat.
COVID-19 Comes to Campus: What Hurricane Katrina Tells Us About the Current Campus Crises
We are living in pandemic pandemonium, where panic is the prevailing mode of operation. Every college and university is operating with all hands-on deck, altering their operational norms; the result is that campus employees—academics, practitioners, and leaders—are beyond exhausted. Yet, for those of us who have witnessed campuses in crisis, all of this feels eerily […]
14 Tips for Helping Students with Limited Internet Have Distance Learning
Schools across the nation are closing in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 and in the scramble to provide at-home learning, a major problem has risen to the forefront: millions of American students don’t have reliable access to the internet.
An Open Letter to Our Community
More drastic change to education systems has occurred in the last week than it has in arguably the last 50 years. What possibilities does this open up for the future of learning, for the reorganization of our institutions, for the centrality of families and family life?
Why Coronavirus Looks Like a ‘Black Swan’ Moment for Higher Ed
Coronavirus could be the “black swan” moment for higher education as we know it. Colleges by the dozen are canceling in-person classes and scrambling to create remote-teaching alternatives. Is it crazy to think that a new virus could be more of a catalyst for online education and other ed-tech tools than decades of punditry and […]
When Coronavirus Closes Colleges, Some Students Lose Hot Meals, Health Care, and a Place to Sleep
When Berea College sent out a campuswide email at midday on Tuesday, announcing that it would end in-person instruction and send students home for the rest of the semester because of concerns about the coronavirus, the dining hall erupted in cheers.
The Destructiveness of Call-Out Culture
Reflections from undergraduates of the social media era.