Daily Lumina News 052920

For many of today's students, life circumstances prevented them from initially completing a post-high school degree. But that doesn’t mean they won’t strive to finish. Matt Bergman, a faculty member at the University of Louisville, highlights the stories of those who successfully returned to college to complete what they started last year or long ago in his book, "Unfinished Business."
In this interview, Bergman discusses why it's time for colleges and universities to reimagine and embrace new ways of serving adult learners.

As part of it reopening plans, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is developing something that was hard to achieve during this spring’s remote instruction: social connection.
Called “Carolina Away,” the initiative will target up to 1,000 students who are unable to return to campus. The plan is to allow them to learn together in high-quality, digital sections of key courses in the general education curriculum, participate in small group experiences, and engage in learning communities that focus on the impact of COVID-19.

Stress and college seem to go hand in hand, but the sudden emptying out of campuses across the United States has increased the anxiety for many students, who find themselves isolated from their peers, packed together with their parents, and full of worry over what the future holds.

With the coronavirus drying up many of the traditional summer job options for American high school and college students in restaurants and retail stores and summer camps and swimming pools, many teens will miss out this year on the chance to earn income to help their families put toward college tuition.
They also will lose the opportunity to learn important lessons about the working world.