Scouting the Territory

 1. My topic hasn't changed from what it was previously. I am still trying to research more about how Covid has impacted college.

2. Some of the key terms I used when searching up what Corona had impacted were student mental health, college education, college tuition and finances, college staff. I can also look at a more previously overlooked effect which is the impact of the corona virus on college hygene (more use/implementation of hand sanitizer, masks, etc.)

3. College Admission During Covid - by Robert Frank is a good source of information for my topic. It shows how Covid may have impacted students' approach to choosing the college that is best for them. Covid has not only impacted where a student should go for college, but it has also impacted what major they should choose. Furthermore, there are other factors such as course load which come into play when talking about remote-learning or in-person learning.

4. I can try comparing the pros and cons of Corona's impact on college students. Since my topic is a little broad I am hoping to cut it down a bit. There are some aspects of college that have been impacted negatively like student and staff morale while others like college tuition have been impacted positively (for students).

5. These are my links:

    https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college

    The link above is useful for tracking the college tuition costs. It can be useful to find out how corona may have impacted college tuition, and it can also help figure out the correlation between lowering tuition and the coronavirus.

    https://www.jmir.org/2020/9/e21279/

    This study performed from this link is useful in determining the mental health effects of coronavirus on students. It also gives information on some specific factors about corona impacting other students.

6. There's not much of a controversial viewpoint to this topic that is obvious. Looking at the impact of corona holistically, it is obviously had a negative impact. But when looking at things specifically like the impact of corona on college as a whole, there could be a case made for it being a positive or negative impact.

Comments

  1. Michael GoellerFebruary 8, 2021 at 11:54 PM

    This is a great topic. You might want to look at articles from Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education (which you can access through a Rutgers server or the Rutgers libraries possibly) that have the latest news and analysis of the COVID response on campus. One debate that has raged, and might continue to be relevant (and not merely historically interesting) if we do not reach herd immunity or if new COVID strains make vaccines ineffective, is whether or not campuses should have opened. I personally think Rutgers made a good choice to go fully online, and that choice was possible because of our relatively good financial health, as there are huge costs to closing the dorms and other facilities. But many schools across the country stayed open. How do we decide which was the better decision? Did some colleges make decisions based on money over health?

    Looking more generally at the ways COVID has impacted higher education is interesting, but looking at those things through the lens of the close / don't close controversy might be more interesting.

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