Coronavirus disrupts higher education, magnifies inequities and accelerates change.



 



Over the next three weeks, we'll be releasing three audio documentaries about education. You can listen via the Educate podcast feed on Apple, Spotify and all the rest. In future weeks, we'll have stories about the science of reading comprehension and confronting race at a predominantly white college. But first ...


Covid on Campus
by Sasha Aslanian, Stephen Smith and Sabby Robinson

The coronavirus pandemic represents the greatest challenge to American higher education in decades. Some small regional colleges that were already struggling won’t survive. Other schools, large and small, are rethinking how to offer an education while keeping people safe.

This program explores how institutions are handling the crisis, and how students are trying to navigate a major disruption in their college years.

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Some colleges that weathered the Great Depression and two world wars won't survive Covid-19
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On the Navajo Nation, college students navigate a curfew and digital dead zones
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A Florida university plans to reopen with a mandatory screening app, fewer people in classrooms, and a pilot study of virus-sniffing dogs
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