The Humanities Institute at The University of Montana held a roundtable Friday to discuss how UM can help Missoula’s refugee population in a year projected to have the most refugees
Christina Salzmann packed light last March; a few shirts, pens, just enough to ride out the rest of the semester back home in Switzerland. But a year later, sheâs still remote.Â
âI thought [I was] going to be back for like eight weeks or something, like âOh yeah, itâs going to be over in summer,ââ Salzmann said. âI wouldâve never, never thought Iâm going to stay for like a year in Switzerland.âÂ
Salzmann, along with the rest of students and faculty at the University, abruptly shifted to remote learning last spring as COVID-19 spread in the United States. A year later, many have returned to campus with hybrid learning in place, but several students and professors have remained remote.Â