Examining the COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on Utah Higher Education Students. General Report

Autor/inn/en	Barrus, Zachary; Campbell, Brett; Stanger, Kenadie
Institution	Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)
Titel	Examining the COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on Utah Higher Education Students. General Report
Quelle	(2022), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Electronic Learning; Technical Education; Higher Education; Blended Learning; Disease Control; Public Health; School Closing; College Enrollment; Graduation Rate; Distance Education; Academic Achievement; College Students; Utah + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Technikunterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Gesundheitswesen; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Schulleistung; Collegestudent
Abstract	As the COVID-19 pandemic spread to Utah in March 2020, the state's public colleges and universities took steps to mitigate the risk of infection to students and faculty/staff. Utah's degree-granting institutions shifted in-person coursework online in March 2020 for the remainder of the spring 2020 term, with the goal to protect students' health and safety and that of the campus community. With this focus, institutions adjusted course offerings and utilization of space to continue to serve students in these extraordinary times. Such measures continued into the fall 2020 term. Technical colleges could not easily shift curricula online, as most certificate programs require in-person demonstrations that competencies have been mastered. In response to the pandemic, technical colleges moved as many programs as possible to online instruction, understanding that some students may run out of independent course work that can be completed outside of a classroom or laboratory. Other programs moved to a hybrid of online and in-person instruction while following capacity, social distancing, and contact tracing guidelines. Many programs, however, were shut down in April 2020 and did not reopen until the beginning of June. As more time passes since COVID-19's arrival in Utah, the impacts of institutional and student decisions in response to the pandemic are becoming clearer. As shown in this report, student enrollment, progress, and completion trends were all affected by the colleges' and universities' COVID mitigation efforts. Data for this research comes from regular submissions provided to Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) by both degree-granting and technical institutions. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Utah System of Higher Education. Utah State Board of Regents, 60 South 400 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1284. Tel: 801-321-7101; Web site: https://ushe.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01