Colleges are now educating their first waves of students who experienced pandemic learning loss in high school. What they are seeing is sobering.
Students in the Benjamin F. Payton Learning Resources Center at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., Oct. 27, 2022.
For many low-income students and students of color, who have historically faced bigger obstacles to earning a degree, classes seem to be that much harder and graduating that much tougher. It’s especially bad, he said, for low-income students and students of color. “The population that we’re most interested in doing the most for seems to be moving in the wrong direction,” he said.
Lee DeVille, a math professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said he “triaged” a class this past spring to focus on fundamentals. It pained him, he said, to cut out some “beautiful mathematics,” but it seemed necessary.At Texas A&M University, some math classes saw higher rates of D’s, F’s, as well as more withdrawals, over the course of the pandemic.
An engaging professor and help from the math center have helped him make up for the lost time, he said, and he is now majoring in nuclear engineering. At Benedict, which serves many low-income, first-generation students, the pandemic has made it even harder to ensure that students graduate on time, Artis said. The college’s six-year graduation rate in 2021-22 stood at 25%, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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