College took a back seat the moment Izzy B called the suicide hotline. Izzy, 18, had spent her senior year of high school online. Then she had gone straight to online summer school at a local community college near Denver. When in-person classes there started this past fall, she was glad to be back in the classroom and finally experiencing some real college life.
Yet after the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 forced classes back online late in the semester, Izzy, who was living with her parents, felt overwhelmed by loneliness; she struggled to focus on her studies and enjoy life.
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The share of students returning for a second year of college fell in 2020 to the lowest level since 2012, and uncertainty about the virus could deepen the dropout crisis
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What if admissions could be done in a totally new way? Without tests? Without the many parts of the process think of legacy admissions that favor wealthier applicants?
The National Association for College Admission Counseling has just created a commission to rethink the entire admissions process through a racial equity lens.
NACAC has identified three priority areas for the commission: The college-entrance pipeline, from student recruitment and college advising through the application process and admission criteria. Postsecondary financial aid requirements. The role of racial equity in postsecondary enrollment.
The panel is aiming for three reports by this summer: a guide for colleges centered on racial/ethnic inclusion, a related guide for postsecondary institutional leaders and recommendations for federal and state policy makers for an equity-based college transition.
This list is compiled from logs released to media by the Natrona County Sheriff s Office.
This log may not reflect all arrests for this time period. For example, police will not release any information about juvenile arrests. State law prohibits any official from identifying a person accused of a sex crime until the defendant is arraigned in district court.
Everyone listed here is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The charges listed here are what the arresting agency has recommended to the Natrona County District Attorney s Office. However, formal charges filed by prosecutors may differ from the recommended charges listed here.