The college experience during a pandemic

Join the McKelvy House Scholars online on Sunday at 4 p.m. for a discussion led by Grayce Walker ’22 and Saide Singh ’23 on the college experience during a pandemic. Email the group for the Zoom link. Grayce and Saide provide this background:

Readings

• https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/10/college-was-never-about-education/616777/
• https://insidehighered.com/views/2020/06/10/student-writes-open-letter-administrators-her-concerns-about-reopening-campuses
• https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/09/pandemic-no-excuse-colleges-surveil-students/616015/

Questions

General

• How have institutions of higher education marketed the “college experience”?
• Do you think colleges consider the safety of students when reopening colleges? Whose college experience is centered and why?
• Do you think colleges take into account the individual circumstances of their marginalized students? If they do/say they do, is it performative?

Lafayette

• What are the general categories/reasonings for why someone may or may not go back to campus?
• How do you think the reopening is going to affect the students who are currently on campus?
• What are the larger implications for Lafayette enlisting both Public Safety and the Easton Police Department to do more patrols?
• What happens when students go back to campus for in-person classes and their professors decide on remote learning? When classes go remote in the middle of the semester?
• What happens when somebody gets so sick that they can no longer attend classes?