To Dollars&Sense
Good morning,
As a follow up to your article about Baruch’s fall semester, I have a written story that might be of interest to you.
As summertime comes to an end, the declining temperatures are accompanied by one recurrent event; the start of a new academical school year for around 20 million college students across the country. According to Open doors in 2019 more than 1 millions of these students were International students, meaning allowed on the American soil based solely on their school visa.
Due to sanitary protection measures scholars will follow classes from the (not always advantageous) comfort of their own home for the entirety of the fall semester, and for International students forced to attend courses thousands of miles away from their campus, or asked to defer their studies to 2021 COVID-19 has become a real challenge to their education.
Here is a glimpse of the article, let me know if you have any questions.
Headline: (Almost) Back to School for International Students
Lede: Casablanca, Morocco – For Rania El Frougui, 18, the Fall 2020 semester marked the opening of a new chapter in her educational journey as she prepared to transfer to college in New York City. But border restrictions imposed by COVID-19, forced her to postpone her school start.
Nutgraph: The ongoing global pandemic that urged American universities to conduct distance learning in the Spring 2020, continue to revisit the way education is delivered. Like Rania, many international students especially freshmen are asked to push back their education to 2021 or to follow lectures from their home country. “The main reason I came to the US was to get a better education,” said another student currently in Quito whose family needed him.
Best,