{"id":4402,"date":"2020-06-02T08:49:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2020-06-02T13:17:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:17:17","slug":"higher-ed-pandemics-effects-will-be-felt-for-years-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/06\/02\/higher-ed-pandemics-effects-will-be-felt-for-years-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Ed: Pandemic\u2019s Effects Will Be Felt for Years to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4403\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sad_collegestudent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4403\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sad_collegestudent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sad_collegestudent.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sad_collegestudent-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Disruptions caused by the coronavirus will likely lengthen the time students take to earn a college degree, education experts say. And the effects will be felt most acutely by low-income and first-generation students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could add a year or two easily to a student\u2019s time to degree,\u201d Kristen Renn, an education professor at Michigan State University, told <a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/while-focus-is-on-fall-students-choices-about-college-will-have-a-far-longer-impact\/\"><em>The Hechinger Report<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The estimate is based on past economic recessions. Experts say higher education will continue to see the effects of the pandemic for six or more years as students delay college, take time off, reduce their credit hours, or transfer schools in response to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, dropout rates are expected to rise while completion rates fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re so focused on the now and on the short-term future,\u201d Laura Perna, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, told <em>The Hechinger Report<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s much harder to think about the long term, but there are serious long-term consequences to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/while-focus-is-on-fall-students-choices-about-college-will-have-a-far-longer-impact\/\"><strong>Read the full story<\/strong><\/a><strong> and use the comment section below to share how your students are responding to the enormous challenges posed by the coronavirus crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disruptions caused by the coronavirus will likely lengthen the time students take to earn a college degree, education experts say. And the effects will be felt most acutely by low-income and first-generation students. \u201cThis could add a year or two easily to a student\u2019s time to degree,\u201d Kristen Renn, an education professor at Michigan State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/06\/02\/higher-ed-pandemics-effects-will-be-felt-for-years-to-come\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Higher Ed: Pandemic\u2019s Effects Will Be Felt for Years to Come<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,111],"tags":[461,462],"class_list":["post-4402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-college-completion","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-190","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}