This article explains that because of the claimed budget deficit that UArizona experienced because of the pandemic, campus based cultural centers experienced budget cuts. These budget cuts put a significant damper on the physical spaces of centers serving societally marginalized students.
"Worried that first-generation students found its bureaucracy confusing, the college, in Bloomington, Minn., created an integrated office where students can come with questions for the financial-aid, records, and payments departments." Click here to access article.
This article discusses how "lawmakers and families should expect lower quality programs, including fewer course offerings, more limited access to advising and tutoring, larger classes and more part-time instructors. Fourteen percent budget cuts will hurt core instructional and student support services. Public investment in higher education affects dropout rates and even students’ grades, whether students enroll full or part-time."
This article discusses how regarding budget cuts, that "additional reductions are likely to disproportionately impact our first-generation students, students of color, students from low income backgrounds, and other underrepresented students."
This article highlights the various circumstances in which students have experienced since the pandemic, such as finding spaces to study, having to make particular spaces multipurpose (example is making a dining room table into an office space), lack of access to technology, and more.
With more of an emphasis on optimizing campus spaces, this article discusses how college staff offices can be utilized in more efficient ways.
In this article, Mike Aziz discusses how the pandemic recovery may involve reimagining campuses by transforming unused spaces into community hubs and large-scale resource centers.
This article talks about the student satisfaction rates during the spring 2021 semester. It also discussed how there was mixed reactions to campus in-person, online, and hybrid models of operation. However, digital class spaces brought about greater flexibility and access to course content.
"The NAACP has raised concerns that the coronavirus pandemic will cause increased housing insecurity for Black college students. " This article highlights the already existing inequities for marginalized students being exacerbated because of the pandemic.
This article shares how in light of the pandemic and after continuous trends for outdoor spaces, that institutions of higher education are leaning towards designing more outdoor spaces, in which major positive implications where suggested.
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