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428,620.
That is the number of *just freshmen* who moved to another state to attend college in 2018.
Why are we about to embark on a mass migration during a pandemic?
That is the number of *just freshmen* who moved to another state to attend college in 2018.
Why are we about to embark on a mass migration during a pandemic?
Another view of US college migration of freshmen (2018)--hundreds of thousands of students are being asked to move during a pandemic...often to attend class online.
Source: @ipeds_nces
Source: @ipeds_nces
Every single one of these universities is currently planning to have students return to campus, whether their courses are in-person, online, or hybrid.
Source: @chronicle https://www.chronicle.com/article/heres-a-list-of-colleges-plans-for-reopening-in-the-fall/
Source: @chronicle https://www.chronicle.com/article/heres-a-list-of-colleges-plans-for-reopening-in-the-fall/
This mass migration during a pandemic is particularly relevant because, as @vox and others have noted, the growth in cases this summer has been especially large among younger people. https://www.vox.com/2020/7/18/21328358/covid-19-cases-by-age-florida-arizona-texas-miami
Source for college plans: https://www.chronicle.com/article/heres-a-list-of-colleges-plans-for-reopening-in-the-fall/
Which is done is collaboration with the @C2Initiative https://collegecrisis.shinyapps.io/dashboard/
Which is done is collaboration with the @C2Initiative https://collegecrisis.shinyapps.io/dashboard/
MA--my home--was #3 in the nation for most out-of-state freshmen (~23K). Glad to hear that @MassDHE is demanding a quarantine. Hope it can be enforced. https://twitter.com/MassDHE/status/1289562828089614338?s=20
Better yet...just don't have freshmen come. Imagine what it will be like to be 18 years old, you're away from home on your for the first time in your life, and you need to spend 2 weeks in a dorm room, quite possibly utterly alone.
Here is what quarantine will look like in MA:
14 days
Cannot leave your residence
No shared bathrooms
No guests
Must be able to isolate individuals from a group quarantine
All food must be delivered (what college can handle this?)
14 days
Cannot leave your residence
No shared bathrooms
No guests
Must be able to isolate individuals from a group quarantine
All food must be delivered (what college can handle this?)
Just going to add this to this thread w/o comment. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1289954360261144576?s=20
