2021 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Online > Podcast > Pacific
Awarded to
Jeffrey R. Young, Senior Editor
Entry details
Who Is Missing From College? Pandemic Campus Diaries Ep. 5
Issue or publication date: October 20, 2020
Publication name: EdSurge
Publishing/parent company: ISTE
Website home page: https://www.edsurge.com/
About the publication's mission and readership:
https://www.edsurge.com/about
Description of the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
How do you take listeners inside campus life when it’s not safe to visit a campus to do reporting? This past semester, the EdSurge Podcast enlisted professors and students to record audio diaries of their lives, to surface intimate details of the struggles as colleges tried to keep education going during the pandemic.
This series aims to document this unique moment in a lively and lasting way. Our audio storytelling offers listeners a deep emotional connection to the challenges faced by the people being chronicled. Our approach shines a light on the nuanced effects the pandemic has on students whose learning has been disrupted.
This was an 8-part series that ran every two weeks during the semester. We have submitted the episode that drew the biggest response, which focused on the question of who is suddenly missing from college due to the pandemic. We published this just as new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center showed a drop in enrollment at colleges, particularly among those who would have been starting their college careers. By having professors and students talk about what they were seeing, we were able to give a richer view of what this trend looked like up close. And because some of our diarists were low-income students facing challenges even before the pandemic, we were able to provide human context for this dropout data. “The result is at once both intimate and textured,” wrote Michael Feldstein, an education leader who reviewed the episode on his blog.
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Who Is Missing From College? Pandemic Campus Diaries Ep. 5
Category
Online > Podcast > Pacific
Description
Publication name:
EdSurge
Publishing/parent company:
ISTE
Winner Status
- Regional Silver Award
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