“What’d We Miss?”: An Initial Analysis of Politics, Demographics, and COVID-19 Rates in Colleges’ Resumption of Instructional Operations for Fall 2020

Collier, Daniel; Fitzpatrick, Dan; Snideman, Sam; Marsicano, Christopher R.

doi:10.33774/apsa-2020-4c0f2

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“…This result may also be related to our finding that, among public institutions, location in a state with a GOP governor significantly and positively predicted the likelihood that it would shift to offering additional in-person instruction. This result confirms the findings of other recent work that explores institutional reopening plans (Andersen et al, 2020;Collier et al, 2020Collier et al, , 2021Felson & Adamczyk, 2021) and suggests that institutional leaders in some states were under considerable political pressure to reopen for in-person instruction, despite the health risks involved (Collier et al, 2020(Collier et al, , 2021Felson & Adamczyk, 2021). Indeed, our models indicate that political factors weighed more heavily than public health itself at the average public 4-year institution.…”

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“…Subsequent research has confirmed that politics, especially party affiliation, played an important role in institutional decision-making. Studies from Collier et al, (2020Collier et al, ( , 2021 and Felson and Adamczyk (2021) indicate that states with either a Republican governor or a Republican-controlled legislature were more prone to reopen for in-person instruction.…”

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Balancing finances, politics, and public health: international student enrollment and reopening plans at US higher education institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic

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Castiello-Gutiérrez

2021

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Drawing from resource dependence theory, this study explores the extent to which international student enrollment related to institutional decisions to shift to in-person instructional strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus our study particularly on July 2020, a time during which tensions around international students’ legal status in the US were especially high. Our results suggest that leaders at private not-for-profit institutions were significantly more likely to shift instructional strategies to include more in-person instruction, thus allowing more international students to enroll but also placing at risk the health of individuals on their campuses and in their local communities. A similar result was not found for public institutions. These results speak to the extent to which private institutions in the US have become financially dependent on international students’ tuition and have clear implications for the financial futures of US higher education institutions. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10734-021-00768-7.

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Balancing finances, politics, and public health: international student enrollment and reopening plans at US higher education institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic

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“…From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were sharp differences between Democrats and Republicans around reopening educational institutions and the economy (Parker et al, 2020). Research showed that universities, public and private, 2-and 4-year institutions, were affected by this political climate and there was significant association between reopening schools and a Republican governor (Collier et al, 2020(Collier et al, , 2021. The influence was most evident for 4-year public institutions that were more dependent upon public funding for their operations (Collier et al, 2021).…”

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What can COVID‐19 pandemic reveal about public purpose of a University? A case study

Mohebali

2022

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This case study examines institutional communication of purpose to stakeholders through Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings show that the institution attempted to reduce the negative impacts of the pandemic on campus life and student experiences while using the pandemic as an opportunity to re-iterate the importance of its scientific knowledge production, training of professionals, and service to communities. In doing so, it established relationships with multiple publics at a time of crisis, but has run the risk of further losing public trust in science and university as the COVID-19 pandemic has persisted.

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“…Yet, many argue that the education sector has been hit particularly hard because of the shift to wide-scale remote learning (Collier et al, 2021). In addition, at the postsecondary education level, the disparate ways institutions have chosen to respond to the pandemic has led to an array of approaches that all have nuanced impacts on students that we are only beginning to understand (e.g., Collier et al, 2020;Marsicano et al, 2020;Whatley and Castiello-Gutiérrez, 2021); further, higher education budgets are often the first victims of tightening state budgets. Importantly, researchers are making initial cases that remote learning during the pandemic has an exaggerated negative effect on STEM instruction and STEM students' performance (McCormick, 2021).…”

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A Potential Canary in the Coal Mine: A Critical Policy Analysis of the Illinois LSAMP During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to impact every industry and test problem-solving capabilities and innovation across the board; education is no exception. As institutions continue to adapt to the impacts of the current public health crisis, colleges and universities are also navigating federal policy prompted by the pandemic. Literature has shown the positive influence of organizations, such as the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), and, we argue that they can take a more active intermediary approach, that of an Organizational Buffer, to best support their students during times of uncertainty. Current research highlights the disconnect between STEM education and policy, as well as how the pandemic is disproportionately impacting communities of color. The pervasiveness of whiteness within educational policy and the negative impacts of unequal distribution of resources on students of color in STEM highlight the need to center race in a theoretical framework and policy. The purpose of this study was to understand the policy and communication responses to the pandemic as they pertained to supporting student success in STEM. Using the Theory of Racialized Organizations, which is a qualitative case study approach that leverages diffractive readings, was implemented to understand whether educational policy and communication responses during this time have or perpetuated inequitable systems. Guided by the research question, in what ways do pandemic policies and communications bolster the success of underrepresented minoritized students (URM) majoring in STEM, our study found four versions of policymaking (i.e., Performative, Picking Winners and Losers, Stay in your Lane, and Time Burden) that emerged and did not support URM STEM students equitably and consistently. Based on these findings, we present implications for institutional responses, LSAMP-alliance support, and future research.

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“What’d We Miss?”: An Initial Analysis of Politics, Demographics, and COVID-19 Rates in Colleges’ Resumption of Instructional Operations for Fall 2020

Abstract: Generally, institutions who decided on an instructional mode of operation by June 15th remained steadfast in the decision on August 5th.

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Balancing finances, politics, and public health: international student enrollment and reopening plans at US higher education institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Balancing finances, politics, and public health: international student enrollment and reopening plans at US higher education institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic

What can COVID‐19 pandemic reveal about public purpose of a University? A case study

A Potential Canary in the Coal Mine: A Critical Policy Analysis of the Illinois LSAMP During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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