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Larry Galizio, President & CEO of the CommunityCollege League of California. California's communitycolleges find themselves caught in a 60-year-old funding constraint that increasingly hampers their ability to serve todays students, according to a new report from the CommunityCollege League of California.
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced an abrupt shift to onlinelearning, stakeholders expressed several concerns. Would students really be able to learn as well remotely as they had in-person? Now, more than three years after higher ed was thrown into upheaval, results are beginning to come in about the shift to onlinelearning.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, communitycolleges across the country saw a decline in enrollment for myriad reasons — financial, family, illness, lack of internet or inability to adapt to onlinelearning. As in-person and hybrid learning resume, enrollment numbers have not returned to pre-COVID levels.
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced an emergency switch to onlinelearning, students have embraced the modality for its flexibility and convenience. This is particularly true of communitycollege students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough.
Second, I had spent about fifteen years working to improve college success for first-gen, low-income students. And in all the hundreds of hours of conversations I’d had about student success, I had never once talked to or about faculty members as part of the solution.
Modality While campuses are more prepared than ever to deliver remote instruction and may be enticed by online, asynchronous modules, institutions must be mindful of the needs of the population they are serving. Additionally, onlinelearning inhibits community building, which is particularly important for this demographic.
Not only did teaching and learning have to quickly shift to an online environment, but support faculty and staff also had to undergo a transition to working remotely. Higher education institutions everywhere have been met with one of the most significant challenges to their operation because of COVID-19. Challenges Ahead.
I would think probably like wanting face-to-face with faculty, kind of that sense of community, having someone that you can talk to specifically. However, I think it's also worth noting that that may not be the reality just given the pervasiveness of onlinelearning, and it is. Onlinelearning does have this going for it.
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