Thursday, November 19, 2020

11-19: People die, but little changes; Community college enrollment falls; Pandemic stress!

"Protecting the German homeland" (WWI)
✅ Faculty Pandemic Stress Is Now Chronic
 
COVID-19-related changes to teaching and dealing with students' mental health continue to weigh on professors, with implications for their own mental health. 
—Inside Higher Ed 

They want him to move without Congress. Will he? 
—Inside Higher Ed 

Dig deeper into the state of community college enrollments, and you'll find some hints at what could be keeping some institutions afloat while others sink. 
—Inside Higher Ed
     Community college enrollments are suffering. Badly. 
     Nationally, they are down 9.5 percent, according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Community college freshman enrollment is down by 19 percent. Enrollment of underrepresented minorities has taken an especially hard hit -- it's down by nearly 30 percent. 
     Some colleges are doing worse than others -- and some are doing well. But it's hard to pinpoint exactly why. Inside Higher Ed requested enrollment data from every state's community college system but to date has received information from fewer than half the states. Several systems have said they don't expect to release numbers until January…. 

✅ Community college enrollment falls as students grapple with job loss, online learning -- David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit. Emma Hall and Tess Kazenoff CalMatters -- 11/18/20 

—Inside Higher Ed 
     A new report from the Academic Freedom Monitoring Project of the Scholars at Risk Network analyzed 341 documented attacks on students, scholars and educational institutions in 54 countries over the past year. 
     This year’s “Free to Think” report, the latest in an annual series, highlights how COVID-related restrictions affected academic freedom by cutting off academic travel and enabling greater surveillance of university classrooms....

How can college leaders support faculty members during this difficult time? 
—CHE 

A Times analysis shows that the surge is worst now in places where leaders neglected to keep up forceful virus containment efforts 
—NYT 

Many Americans stick to their original notions about the coronavirus, no matter what sorrows they’ve seen, no matter where they live. 
—WashPo 

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UC Berkeley to remove names of LeConte and Barrows halls due to ‘controversial legacies’ -- Two halls at UC Berkeley will have their names removed Wednesday in response to growing awareness of their namesakes’ controversial legacies, campus officials said. Hayley Smith in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 11/18/20

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