The average household income of Berea's students is $29,000 and few of them have Internet access at home.
Roelofs, 66, is one of the few higher ed leaders eager to speak about the challenge of running online courses well. Before joining Berea as president in 2012, he served in a provost position at Haverford and as interim president at Colgate. But for much of his career he was in the classroom. Professors can’t learn to be great virtual instructors overnight, he believes. “It requires a certain amount of sophistication on the part of professors and students,” he says.
Since that report, Roelofs has announced a plan to continue classes. Berea is offering some form of online instruction in as many courses as possible. But it has been a challenge to ensure that students can get Internet access. It’s taken time but Berea has established digital connections with all but 10% of students. Some professors are sending study materials via email. In foreign language courses, students are connecting by phone and practicing conversational skills.
When Berea shut down, he was in the midst of a microbiology lab project. He’s since switched to contributing to a report his professor is preparing on the sInstead of running Zoom classes like most colleges, many Berea professors are uploading power points that students can review anytime. Angiolillo’s instructors have all shared their cellphone numbers. “I try to figure things out on my own,” he says, “but I’ve already texted with one professor.
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