Students are dreading the prospect of another online semester.
that the desire to stay at home stems from a lack of support from her university in providing essential materials for her online classes.
As a visual art major attending a public university with no arts specialty, Cherubin found herself struggling to finish her projects on time, and said her professors seemed indifferent to what students were going with. “I think in those moments, I felt a lot of fear, and I think that kind of worsened the mental stress that I felt,” she recalls.
Some students at private universities that plan to continue remote learning in the fall are grappling with the same issues as their public school counterparts. For Jillian Piper, a rising junior at Carleton University in Ottawa, themeans managing her workload without a stable internet connection. She lives in Little Britain, a tiny rural town in Canada, and the town has limited internet connectivity.
wants to give students as much flexibility as possible during the upcoming online fall semester. But Bamishigbin also recognizes that those who are the most vulnerable are often the least likely to reach out for help: “There's always those students who kind of fall off and even if you reach out to them, they're still nonresponsive because there’s a thousand more things for them to worry about.
Dickenson, whose new school will have more resources to successfully reopen in the fall, hopes that the price tag will be worth it. “Education is one of the biggest investments that a family makes," he says, "and a lot of families are losing significant value from what's already become a more and more expensive purchase.”
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