COVID-19 Resources for ILEA Partners
COVID-19 Resources for ILEA Partners
In response to the rapidly transformed environment created by the coronavirus pandemic, the PCC team has crowdsourced a variety of resources purposed to support your institution in navigating this challenging time. Through this page, find support for teaching online, maintaining a focus on equity, and addressing students' basic needs during this still-developing public health crisis. We will be updating this page weekly.
In response to the rapidly transformed environment created by the coronavirus pandemic, the PCC team has crowdsourced a variety of resources purposed to support your institution in navigating this challenging time. Through this page, find support for teaching online, maintaining a focus on equity, and addressing students' basic needs during this still-developing public health crisis. We will be updating this page weekly.
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The Future of the Faculty
Target Audience: Faculty
Authors: Bryan Alexander and Ian Wilhelm, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Description: Hosted by Ian Wilhelm, a Chronicle editor, and featuring Bryan Alexander, futurist and author of Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education, the discussion will be a much-needed glimpse into a crystal ball for faculty members who may have not had the bandwidth or time to consider the long-term changes that will affect the professoriate. A live webinar will take place on Friday, May 14 with a recording available to all registrants.
Format: webinar
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Title: It’s Time to Take Time Out of Learning and Reinvent Higher Education
Target Audience: Faculty and staff
Author: Paul LeBlanc, Forbes
Description: This perspective from the president of a private university points to how the current infrastructure of higher education requires a major adjustment in order to stay relevant and support workforce needs in response to our global crisis and looming recession. Specifically, the author calls for greater flexibility with the time it takes for learners to earn credentials and demonstrate their mastery of skills and knowledge.
Format: article
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8 Ways to be More Inclusive in Your Zoom Teaching
Target Audience: Faculty
Authors: Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sath, Chronicle of Higher Education
Description: From longtime inclusive teaching advocates, this article highlights eight specific ways that faculty having to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to remote teaching via Zoom can still ensure inclusivity in their practice. By acknowledging that faculty are learning just as much as students are in this process along with utilizing the break-out room tool and offering resources for asynchronous learning, faculty can effectively role model inclusive teaching.Format: article
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Want to Reach All of Your Students? Here's How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive?
Target Audience: Faculty
Authors: Viji Sath and Kelly A. Hogan, Chronicle of Higher Education
Description: This guide was developed by a team of STEM faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to advise any instructor on how to adapt their pedagogy to be more inclusive of students of different identities and backgrounds. In addition to tips such as checking in with students and collecting qualitative data on teaching effectiveness, this guide includes links to journal articles, podcasts, training opportunities, and other resources to empower faculty on responding to shifting demands of their work.
Format: website
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What One College President Learned about Remote Teaching by Becoming a StudentTarget Audience: Faculty and staff
Author: Beth McMurtrie, Chronicle of Higher Education
Description: The President of Morgan State University, a Historically Black University in Baltimore, decided to audit two online classes in order to both connect with students virtually and to gain perspective on the abrupt shift to remote instruction. The experienced influenced how he is able to advocate and empower his university community members.
Format: article
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Transforming the Institution: The New Future of Online Programs
Target Audiences: Faculty and staff
Description: A new series by the Chronicle of Higher Education will focus on the evolving transformation of education in response to the Coronavirus. This webinar to be hosted on April 30th will feature academic experts sharing insights about improving student attitudes toward remote instruction and online learning.
Format: Webinar
Read more hereRethinking the Academic Calendar
Target Audience: Faculty
Author: Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Education
Description: Beloit College, a private four-year liberal arts institution in Wisconsin, is moving this fall from traditional semesters to two-course modules in order to adjust for the potential of campus closures well after the summer term. Beloit’s Academic Strategic Committee assessed the impact of remote learning on faculty and students before recommending changes to a traditional semester calendar.
Format: online article
Read more hereNudge Strategies to Improve Student Success in Online Learning
Target Audience: Faculty and staff
Author: Behavioral scientists, ideas42.org and University of Virginia
Description: Designed for college faculty and administrators, this guide includes a wealth of nudge strategies such as goal-setting, eliminating hassles and managing attention to empower students learning remotely. Nonprofit design-firm, ideas42 collaborated with a team of researchers at the University of Virginia’s Nudge Solutions Lab to produce the guide which also includes links to additional resources.
Format: PDF
Read more hereTHE KEY with Inside Higher Education
Target Audience: Faculty and staff
Author: Multiple
Description: Listen to a new podcast with support from Inside Higher Ed and the Lumina Foundation that features higher education newsmakers commenting on how institutions are managing the global pandemic and recession. The podcast centers equity and low-income students.
Format: Podcast
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The Online Learning Research Center at the University of California-Irvine
Target Audiences: Faculty and Students
Description: This Center just launched with a mission to provide guidance and resources that improve achievement and equity in online education. Instructors can access information about course design, adapting curriculum to online platforms. Students can learn study skill strategies for online education as well as tips to navigate Zoom, Canvas, and other communications tools.
Format: Website
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Article: The Coronavirus Has Pushed Courses Online. Professors Are Trying Hard to Keep Up
Author, Publication: Beth McMurtrie, Chronicle of Higher Education
Target Audiences: Students, Faculty, Staff
Description: Professors representing multiple disciplines and institutions offer their reflections about shifting expectations for their teaching and student learning in response to COVID-19.
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Keep Teaching During Prolonged Campus or Building Closures
Target Audience: Faculty
Authors: University of Maryland
Description: An online repository of articles, strategies, and other tools designed to support instructors adapting course material for remote delivery. Whether instructors need help organizing checklists to move a course to an online platform or they need guidance on designing course assessments, this website from the University of Maryland has them covered.
Format: Website with downloadable documents and links to additional resources
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Keep Learning During Prolonged Campus or Building Closures
Target Audience: Students
Authors: University of MarylandDescription: A centralized online resource offering students extensive guidance on adjusting to remote learning and campus services now offered virtually in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Format: Website with downloadable documents and links to additional resources
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Sustaining Higher Education in the Coronavirus Crisis
Target audiences: Faculty, Staff, Students
Authors: EdSurge
Description: EdSurge, a community of education technology entrepreneurs and educators, is sponsoring Sustaining Higher Education in the Coronavirus Crisis, a series of articles and resources crowdsourced to empower students and educators adjusting to remote delivery of teaching, learning, and other support services.
Format: Website
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Adjusting your study habits during COVID-19
Target audiences: Students
Authors: The Center for Academic Motivation at the University of Michigan
Description: This four-page resource guide is designed to offer students concrete ways to devise a plan, modify study strategies, and care for self amidst a pandemic. While the guide includes some resources unique to the University of Michigan, there are links to services such as learning remotely and counseling and wellness which can be helpful for non-Michigan students to consider.
Format: PDF
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ACPA-College Student Educators International
Target audiences: Staff and Faculty
Authors: Various student affairs scholars and practitioners
Description: ACPA is sponsoring a series of webinars focused on responding to student needs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Registration is required to gain free access to all webinar recordings. Topics include: connecting in a virtual environment, working remotely in a student affairs role, moving courses online, and student programming in virtual spaces.
Format: Webinars
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Safeguarding Quality, Equity, and Inclusion as Learning Moves Online
Target audiences: Staff and Faculty
Authors: Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) faculty experts
Description: This webinar will address a wide range of student success issues and opportunities now confronting faculty, staff, and administrators across the higher education landscape. Presenters will offer practical advice and effective pedagogical strategies for creating and sustaining high-quality, equitable, and inclusive learning environments online.
Format: Webinar
Read more hereHow to Recover the Joy of Teaching After an Online Pivot
Target Audience: Faculty
Author: Flower Darby, Chronicle of Higher Education
Description: Flower Darby is Director of the Teaching for Student Success program at Northern Arizona University. In an effort to acknowledge the swift shift by faculty to remote instruction while also considering the transactional nature of this delivery during a stressful crisis, the author provides guidance to recapture the joy of teaching given her years of experience with distance learning.
Format: Online news article
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‘Zoombies’ Take Over Online ClassroomsTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Author: Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Education
Description: Not only are students and faculty navigating a massive disruption to traditional in-person instruction, but over the past several weeks, there is a surge of disruptors sharing racist, sexist, and offensive content during classes delivered by Zoom videoconferences. This article expands on the concept of “zoombombing” and general ways to minimize this disruption
Format: online news article
Read more hereFour Core Priorities for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning
Target Audiences: Faculty and staff
Author: Kara Newhouse, KQED
Description: Dr. Alex Shevrin Venet is a college professor and consultant who recently led a webinar about trauma-informed distance learning. This news story captures Dr. Venet’s priorities for faculty to consider when cultivating trauma-informed classrooms – predictability, flexibility, connection, and empowerment.
Format: online article
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How Neurodivergent Students are Getting Through the Pandemic
Target Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: Madeline St. Amour, Inside Higher Education
Description: Another critical student population facing barriers to success heightened by COVID-19 are students with a range of disabilities. This article expands on neurodiversity as it applies to ADHD, autism, learning disabilities and other invisible disabilities that often require accommodations for students to thrive academically and socially. The disruption created by an abrupt move to remote instructions adversely affects neurodivergent students who benefit greatly from structure and routine.
Format: article
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UC President wants SAT/ACT mandate suspended through 2024 and new exam createdTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: Larry Gordon, EdSource
Description: President Janet Napolitano of the University of California public university system is recommending that Board of Regents not require standardized exams be considered in the freshmen admissions cycles through 2024. Instead, Napolitano is suggesting that a new exam which aligns more with curricular expectations across the UC system be developed and integrated into the admissions process. Opponents of the SAT/ACT continue to cite this course of action as a means to diversify the student body.
Format: article
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Interfaith Cooperation Is the Future of Higher EducationTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core
Description: Interfaith scholar and founder of Interfaith Youth Core, Eboo Patel makes a compelling argument for practitioners and scholars engaged in diversity, equity, and inclusion to further highlight the value proposition of their work as it will serve us greatly in rebounding from the current pandemic.
Format: blog
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Undocumented Students Generated Up to $132 Million in Relief to Colleges – But They Won’t Receive A Dime from the StimulusTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Author: Viviann Anguiano, Center for American Progress
Description: More than $6 billion from the CARES Act was designated for emergency aid to college students, many of whom have faced urgent expenses related to COVID-19. Based on a directive from the federal Department of Education, only students eligible to receive federal student aid are eligible to receive CARES stimulus funding. This excludes an estimated half million students who are undocumented with or without DACA status.
Format: article
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How to Help Students and SurviveTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Author: Nick Ducoff, Inside Higher Education
Description: The author offers six specific practices for higher education leaders to consider or scale in response to the global pandemic: debt-free college degrees, innovative experiential learning opportunities, online mentoring networks, accepting transfer credits, shifting varsity athletics, and waived enrollment deposits.
Format: article
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5 Ways Higher Education Can Better Serve Latino StudentsTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Author: Patty Reinert Mason, Strada Education Network
Description: Excelencia in Education leverages demographic data trends to urge colleges and universities to pay attention to Latinos and African Americans as growth populations. Specifically, investing in Latino student success will have positive implications for the nation’s future. The author shares five strategies to be more responsive to Latinos such as provide high-touch interventions, acknowledge that students are balancing myriad responsibilities in multigenerational households, and addressing disparities in technology access.
Format: article
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Title: Don’t Forget About Rural Higher Education Students: Addressing Digital InequitiesTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Authors: Ty McNamee, Jenay Williams, Karen M Ganss, Sonja Ardoin and Vanessa A. Sansone, Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Description: A team of higher education scholars argue that with college and university closures, students are facing challenges to accessing effective online learning tools, sheltering in place with family, and feeling even more disconnected from an educational experience that provides benefits beyond academics. The article also highlights the need for lawmakers, corporate entities, and higher education to coalesce behind policies that extend broadband to rural America.
Format: article
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Distanced LearningTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Author: Eric Hoover, Chronicle of Higher Education
Description: This article profiles a college counselor at a college-prep high school in Washington, DC serving majority students of color from underresourced communities. The counselor’s story illustrates a further digital divide affecting his and many students whose lives have been severely disrupted by COVID-19.
Format: article
Read more hereEducation Equity in Crisis: Prioritizing Vulnerable Students with Federal CARES Act Stimulus
Target Audiences: Faculty and staff
Author: The Education Trust-West
Description: In partnership with UnidosUS, Alliance for a Better Community and the University of California Student Association, the Education Trust-West pushes California leaders to prioritize equity-minded stimulus spending decisions. Specifically, this website breaks down considerations for K12 and higher education funding that centers students of color, English language learners, students with disabilities, and low-income students.
Format: website
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Evidence-Based Practices for Supporting Boys and Young Men of Color in Education in the COVID-19 PandemicTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Authors: Multiple faculty and administrators from Texas community colleges and universities
Description: This webinar is a part of a series from the Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color based at the University of Texas-Austin. The series is curated to provide faculty and administrators across K12 and higher education opportunities for in-depth discussion about the social and educational experiences of male students of color.
Format: webinar
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Reimagining Higher Education Post-CoronavirusTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Author: Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Education
Description: The author, who serves as a special adviser to the president of Hunter College in New York, identifies this current global crisis as an opportunity to challenge the status quo delivery of student services, teaching, and higher education overall. He makes a case for prioritizing transfer students, enhancing the quality of online learning, expanding dual degree programs, simplifying degree requirements, among other recommendations.
Format: article
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No Emergency Aid for DACA StudentsTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff, and students
Authors: Kery Murakami, Inside Higher Education
Description: The federal Department of Education announced that a social security number is required for students to access emergency funds from the $2.2 trillion CARES Act stimulus package. This excludes international students and undocumented students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities.
Format: article
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Campus Climate Issues Don’t Disappear When Campuses Close, Scholars SayTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff, and students
Authors: Sara Weissman, Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Description: Diverse hosted a webinar featuring critical race theory and higher education scholars Dr. Charles H. F. Davis III, Dr. Vanessa Sansone, and Dr. Leandra Parris, to address the growing importance of tending to campus climate concerns disproportionately affecting students of color amid a global pandemic. Presenters share insights about confronting incivility and microaggressions in virtual environments.
Format: article with a link to recorded webinar
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An Investment for Generations: A Q&A on Advancing Equity in Higher Education Amid the Coronavirus PandemicTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Authors: Viviann Anguiano and Marcella Bombardieri, Center for American Progress
Description: This interview of two senior administrators at CSU-Dominguez Hills, a minority-serving institution in Los Angeles, about their response to their students amid COVID-19 illuminates how student’s basic needs has increasingly become a priority.
Format: blog post
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Quality, Equity, and Inclusion during the COVID CrisisTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Authors: Association of American Colleges & Universities
Description: AAC&U is offering a series of webinars to support those at the forefront of efforts to maintain the commitment to quality, equity, and inclusion. Some of the webinars are designed for a faculty audience while others may benefit administrators. Topics include legal implications for campuses amid COVID-19, student voter engagement, and impacts on experiential learning.
Format: webinars
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Coronavirus left some college students without laptops or on campus jobs so help stepped inTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Author: Steve Strunsky, NJ.com
Description: The article shines a light on the challenges particularly facing foster youth forced to pivot toward remote instruction or losing campus employment. Nonprofit organization, One Simple Wish, is profiled for its work with the philanthropic community.
Format: online article
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Supporting Individuals with Autism during COVID-19
Target audiences: Students, Faculty, Staff
Authors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Description: Developed by experts at UNC, this online toolkit offers guidance to caregivers supporting children and young people with autism to manage daily life during the COVID-19 crisis. Tips include calming strategies, social narrative techniques, and hand washing task analysis.
Format: Website with links to external articles and downloadable guides
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Impacts of COVID-19 on First-Generation Students Experienced Across Institutions of Higher Education
Authors: NASPA Center for First-Generation Student Success
Target audiences: Students, Staff, and Faculty
Description: A blog from staff of the Center for First-Generation Student Success poses critical questions for staff and faculty to consider when responding to student needs. In addition to a video message from CEO of NASPA, one of the largest professional associations for student affairs educators, this blog includes links to various news articles and resources with an eye toward equity.
Format: Blog
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The COVID-19 DEI Crisis Action Strategy Guide: Recommendations to Drive Inclusive Excellence
Target audiences: Staff and Faculty
Authors: Dr. Damon A. Williams, Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership & Social Innovation
Description: Dr. Williams is a DEI expert and author who leads an inclusive excellence academy designed to grow individual and institutional capacity to lead with integrity and a focus on empowering marginalized students. This guide adopts the same principles of inclusive excellence, however it raises more urgent questions surrounding crisis response that prioritizes the needs of historically under-resourced college students.
Format: Downloadable 48-page guide
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Coronavirus and Racial + Social Equity: Centering Justice During Times of Uncertainty and Four Things You Can do Right Now
Authors: The Justice Collective
Target Audiences: Students, Staff, and Faculty
Description: With a mission to support changemaking through building bridges linking policymakers, funders, and the communities they serve, The Justice Collective is a consultancy that offers this blog post about ways to center racial equity and justice in the wake of a crisis.
Format: Blog
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Tips for Socially-Distanced Interfaith LeadershipTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: Hannah Minks, Interfaith Youth Core
Description: IFYC Program Manager, Hannah Minks offers tips for interfaith leaders at colleges and universities to exercise their leadership and care for their respective students and faith communities in a world more dependent on social media.
Format: Blog
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UMBC leads research team to Study COVID-19-related discrimination against Chinese Americans
Target Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: Megan Hanks, UMBC
Description: A team of researchers at the University of Maryland – Baltimore County have earned a National Science Foundation grant to study the increased racism targeting Chinese Americans in the wake of COVID-19. The team will also research coping strategies employed by Chinese American families.
Format: online news article
Read more hereAccessibility Suffers During Pandemic
Target Audiences: Faculty and staff
Authors: Greta Anderson, Inside Higher Education
Description: This article illuminates the myriad barriers that students with a range of disabilities are facing in the massive conversion to remote instruction and services. The author interviews faculty, staff, and national advocates who amplify the need for greater accessibility to ensure students with a variety of needs are able to succeed in higher education.
Format: online news article
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Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate
Target Audience: Faculty, staff and students
Authors: Akilah Johnson and Talia Buford
Description: This article shines a light on how African Americans are disproportionately facing death and health complications as a result of COVID-19. Public health officials argue the need to collect and share more demographic data to arrive at equitable solutions.
Format: online news article
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COVID-19 Strategy Survey of AAC&U Presidents
Target Audiences: Faculty and staff
Author: Dr. Paul N. Friga, ABC Insights
Description: Results of a survey among 285 presidents of American colleges and universities indicating their short-term strategies and considerations in response to COVID-19.
Format: PDF
Read more hereDreamers Help Keep the Country Running During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Target Audiences: Students, staff, and faculty
Authors: Stephanie Griffith and Claudia Flores, Center for American Progress
Description: The article from the Center for American Progress profiles stories of DACA recipients who are working to contain the COVID-19 outbreak as well as provide essential services to residents throughout the country. Their work continues despite the looming decision from the U.S. Supreme Court about whether the DACA program is terminated or reinstated.
Format: online news article
Read more hereSuccessfully Supporting Diverse Students at Community Colleges
Target Audiences: Faculty and staff
Authors: Various administrators interviewed by HigherEdJobs
Description: In honor of Community Colleges Month, the team from HigherEdJobs interviewed two senior level Latinx administrators who have dedicated their careers to supporting students in community colleges. Dr. Magdalena H. de la Teja and Dr. Edward Martinez share insights on how to navigate student affairs within community colleges and how to advise and support students in culturally relevant ways.
Format: online article
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Navigating Virtual Hate: Responding to ZoombombingTarget Audiences: Faculty and staff
Authors: Dr. Sumun L. Pendakur and Jade Agua
Description: Race equity experts from the University of Southern California address the chilling effects of virtual hate on learning environments. Specifically, they provide tips on minimizing offensive disruptions during Zoom meetings and strategies for repairing harm caused by Zoombombers.
Format: Zoom webinar
Read more hereEquity-Minded Student Services in Online Environments
Target Audiences: Faculty and staff
Authors: Dr. Frank Harris III and Dr. J. Luke Wood, San Diego State University
Description: In a series of webinars rooted in equity-minded practice, the presenters share strategies for student services practitioners to effectively reach and serve minoritized students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Format: Recorded webinar
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Covid-19 Has Worsened the Student Mental Health Crisis. Can Resilience Training Fix It?
Target Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Authors: Sarah Brown and Alexander C. Kafka, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Description: Before the onset of COVID-19, higher education was grappling with a surge in mental health concerns affecting students nationwide. Now in the era of this global pandemic, students are expected to exercise resilience in the absence of familiar coping mechanisms and support systems. The authors refer to several recent surveys among students and college presidents regarding the urgency of mental health.
Format: article
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How Colleges Can Advance Equity with CARES Act Emergency Student AidTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: Peter Granville, The Century Foundation
Description: This report provides a brief review of emergency aid programs within institutions that provide a lifeline for students to overcome unexpected financial setbacks. The author draws upon guidance from the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice such as institutions providing multiple forms of aid disbursement to accommodate students without bank accounts, communicating to students when to expect aid disbursement, and offering students the chance to apply for aid by phone.
Format: report
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Launching a COVID-19 College Support Guide to Help Students in NeedTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: Edquity
Description: Guided by its mission to help individuals by rising up financially, Edquity launched a website – COVIDCollegeSupport.com – as a means to disseminate basic needs resource information to students reeling from COVID-19. These categories include food, housing, income, legal support, healthcare, and mental health resources.
Format: article
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Self-Care, Preventing Burn Out and Compassion FatigueTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: Dr. Tara Powell, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Social Work
Description: This webinar will provide practical strategies for social workers and other individuals in the helping profession to reduce stress during the Covid-19 outbreak. Psycho-education, mindfulness, and solution focused techniques will be provided. Additionally, the webinar will discuss strategies that can be used at home or in the workplace during the pandemic.
Format: webinar
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Drive-Up Wifi MapTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: Multiple Illinois state agencies
Description: Through a collaborative of various agencies including the Illinois Board of Higher Education and Illinois Community College Board, an interactive map has been developed that features the geographic location for public drive-up WiFi hotspots in Illinois. They are intended to support remote learning as educators and students navigate the global pandemic.
Format: website with link to external link and virtual map
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4 out of 5 College Students Face Financial Troubles due to Coronavirus PandemicTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: Rebecca Safier, Student Loan Hero
Description: Results are shared from a survey of more than 1,000 college and university students regarding the financial challenges they are encountering in the wake of COVID-19.
Format: article with survey results
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Beyond the Food Pantry: Surviving Covid-19-A #RealCollege Guide for Students
Target audiences: Staff and Faculty
Authors: The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University
Description: The Hope Center led by Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab has become an expert on addressing college affordability and the increased hardship faced by college students nationwide. This is part of a series of resource guides generated in response to COVID-19 which has exacerbated students’ ability to secure stable housing, food, and employment. The guide includes links to external resources for student consideration.
Format: Downloadable Resource Guide
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DACA Update and COVID-19
Target Audiences: Students, staff, and faculty
Author: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Description: An online repository for immigrants seeking information about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and social services. There is updated information for DACA beneficiaries seeking to file for unemployment insurance due to COVID-19 job loss.
Format: Website with downloadable documents and links to other resources
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#RealCollege Student ResourcesTarget Audiences: Faculty, staff and students
Author: The Hope Center for College, Community and Justice
Description: The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University is offering two unique opportunities for college leaders to assess basic needs insecurity that students are facing as a result of COVID-19. The first survey is aimed at students and the deadline for colleges to sign up and participate is this Friday, April 17. A separate survey is designed for college leaders to share what their institutional response has been to address students' basic needs. The Hope Center generated this brief survey in partnership with philanthropic organizations and policymakers.
Format: website with access to surveys, webinars, and other resources
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