The Drive to 55 Alliance’s goal is for 55% of Tennesseans to have a college degree by 2025, but college enrollment has suffered a setback because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By NICK ANDERSON AND DANIELLE DOUGLAS-GABRIEL | The Washington Post | Published: March 2, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. CRANFORD, N.J. As her chemistry laboratory got rolling here one winter morning, with masked students taking their stations at a pandemic-safe distance, community college professor Sherry Heidary aimed to teach more than how to separate mixtures through chromatography. She exhorted one student to believe in herself. You re getting an A, right? she said, more of a demand than a question. Then the professor gently chided a latecomer who didn t turn in an assignment. Not going to happen again, right? Good.