![]() Remote learning and flexibility helps relieve some of that burden and is a step in the direction we should be heading towards in changing the disparities within higher education. The physical, mental and emotional toll it takes on a disabled person to attend just one class is taxing and can significantly affect their quality of learning and application within academia. ![]() are disabled those aged between 25-34, 19% have a bachelor’s degree or higher (42% for those without disabilities) (7). In 2020, it’s estimated that about 13% of all people in the U.S. Some barriers that disabled students face when attending in-person courses are public transportation, walking, parking, and seating. Remote learning helps relieve some barriers that should've been addressed even prior to the pandemic, which is granting students with disabilities and those with elevated challenges more accessibility within academia. However, this is still concerning because during those previous times of similar hospitalization counts, there were still protective measures for students (and professors) to have remote learning.īy allowing the continuation of remote and flexible learning for OHSU and PSU students, there will be far less stress, worry and risk students can have stability in the sense of knowing they can obtain quality education while juggling all of the other factors intertwined with trying to survive during a pandemic and may help relieve the furthering higher education gap between the more wealthier and privileged students and those faced with more barriers. Graven’s report does state that recovery time from the Omicron variant is faster, hospital/ICU admission stays are shorter and the likelihood of developing severe illness or death is less than that of the Delta variant. ![]() Peter Graven’s most recent OHSU COVID Forecast released on March 25, 2022, found on page 3 (6), the confirmed COVID positive hospitalizations currently, are roughly that around July 2021, February-March 2021, July-September 2020, and April 2020. Several other long COVID-related symptoms involving multiple organs(2, 9).Īccording to Dr. Neurological -brain- damage and brain inflammation (4, 5)Īttention disorder/brain fog/memory loss (9) As we've seen with research so far, that variant BA.2 is less likely to cause severe illness or death but is more transmissible, this still puts the students, faculty and those they come into contact with at an unnecessary, elevated risk.Įven mild cases of COVID-19 can have substantial long-term health effects such as With each variant wave, the transmissibility factor increases drastically from the variant prior, putting far more people at risk for getting infected, though severe illness, hospitalizations and mortality becoming less likely (8). Students will likely have long-term effects on their physical and mental health and education (3) Masks are not required in non-hospital areas, leaving high-risk, disabled and/or immunocompromised students at greater risk than the general population Public schools may shut down/open, leaving guardians scrambling for care while trying to physically attend courses Transportation costs are at an all-time high (10) Roughly 6,000, ⅓, OHSU workers have children (12) More workers are working longer, more irregular hours than before the pandemic (13)Ībout 60% of Gen X (ages 39-54), 70% of millennials (ages 23-38), 65% of Gen Z (ages 7-22) are living paycheck to paycheck (1)Ībout 25% of PSU students are parents (11) Students and professors carry many titles and often juggle many responsibilities, even prior to the pandemic. This petition is asking OHSU and PSU to continue remote learning for all undergraduate, Master’s and certificate programs, along with offering flexibility so those who want to meet in person can as well. ![]() We are into the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic while there is a level of excitement to return back to “normal” there is also much hesitancy and worry about losing accessibility, safety measures, and flexibility with obtaining a higher education while navigating a pandemic and life stressors within it. ![]()
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