Student learning perspectives : Differences by race and class during the COVID-19 pandemic

Undergraduate students across the United States had to adapt to learning that was primarily on screen and off campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. With time, campus communities adjusted to the “new normal” of distanced coursework. Little is known about student perspectives on distanced learning after the campus shutdown and more than a semester had passed. Utilizing an online survey of 364 undergraduate students a large Midwestern university, multivariate ordinary least squares regression is used to estimate the effect of learning perspectives of students of color and low-income students. Though results were insignificant, students of color and low-income students encountered important barriers to their education during the COVID-19 pandemic.