How coronavirus dramatically changed college for over 14 million students. (via CNBCMakeIt)
became the first large university in the U.S. to close its doors because of coronavirus. The school canceled in-person classes for its nearly 50,000 students and is having students take their exams remotely.While each school has confronted coronavirus differently, many of the students Make It spoke with mentioned a typical pattern: rumors, followed by emails from administrators, followed by panic — despite the school administrators' best efforts.
"It kind of went from 'We're just testing' to, 'Okay, this is the real deal' pretty quickly," says Borshoff.learned from a professor that the school was closing. "I was sitting in my professor's office hours trying to work on a math problem when a different professor came out and shouted, 'That's it, it's over! [You're] going home! Classes are remote,'" Robertson says.
Some schools, like Davidson, have provided additional support to students during this rocky transition, offering free shuttle rides to the airport and refunding students for the remaining cost of their room and board. Matthew Adams of Midland, Michigan moves belongings into a storage unit after leaving the dorm at the University of Michigan on March 17, 2020 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. College students across America are being told to leave campus and continue classes online after the World Health Organization declared Coronavirus a pandemic.Indeed, for students who are housing or food insecure, school closures have made these issues even worse, as they struggle to find alternative living situations.
"If colleges don't figure out how to support those students, they might lose them permanently," he says.Perhaps the biggest change to the lives of college students has been to their educational experiences.
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