#College – Pima Post

By ANA FIERROS COVID-19, college administrations and our government have economically duped college students. After the extreme rise in COVID-19 cases in the United States, universities and colleges across the nation have closed their doors for the remainder of the semester. Students who paid for an entire semester and even went into debt trying to cover the costs of attendance will likely not get a refund for what they paid. Students have lost work study jobs that they use to help pay for things outside of school. I had to be let go from my work study job because they couldn’t manage to keep me on board with the changing school schedule, though I was lucky enough to be onboarded as a regular employee. This is not the case for most college students. Ohio University is struggling to fin...

By DRAEDON LEDBETTER The transition from high school to college can be stressful for any student, but the stress can be more overbearing for students with disabilities. According to federal data, a third of special education students that enroll in a four-year college or university graduate within eight years. Special education students enrolling in two-year schools or community colleges don’t fare much better than those who enroll in four-year schools which is a total of 41 percent of special education students. According to nces.ed.gov, a specific learning disability is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spe...

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Special Ed students transition from high school to college