Academic support programs grapple with ‘barriers to entry’ in a virtual semester
The University’s first entirely virtual semester has produced a whole new set of academic challenges.
The University’s first entirely virtual semester has produced a whole new set of academic challenges.
In a normal semester, students may have been able to sow the first seeds of a budding friendship by turning to a peer in an orientation hall or large lecture class to exchange a few words. Now, side conversations have become relegated to the Zoom chat, where a quick private message about an assignment might just spark the beginnings of a new connection.