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Anywhere University
College students’ resourcefulness is a lesson for us all
As a member of several online adjunct professor groups, over the summer I read the horror stories of private colleges and some universities on the brink of financial disaster. At the schools where I teach, it’s been an adjustment for everyone, to say the least.
Then in this morning’s New York Times, I read College is Everywhere Now and realized that like most of life, it’s what you make of it.
How beautiful and inspiring that college students from all over the country and the world are creating their own co-learning environments (an academic collab house, if you will) and making the best of the pandemic situation.
Rather than live on a confining campus, students are renting houses and living together, many while attending different universities across the country.
While 16% of High School students have opted to take a Pandemic gap year, others are making this an adventure year.
The story cites a group of students from Grinnell College in Iowa living in a self-formed housing group in Utah.
It’s kind of like the Golden Girls if they went out for Greek Life, but without attending rush parties.
