University responding to ‘Covid gap’ as more freshmen face academic probation this semester
By Grace Beckner
Editor-in-Chief
Students who spent nearly one-third of their critical high school years impacted by a global pandemic have just finished their first semester of college.
As universities across the United States begin to wrestle with what this “learning loss” means, Trevecca is finding itself facing an increase in freshmen on academic probation.
“There are students that come to me and say, ‘I don’t feel like I’m prepared for college. I don’t feel like my high school prepared me for college,’” said Michelle Gaertner, associate dean of student success. “So I get individual conversations with students like that.”
The National Assessment of Educational Progress reported declines in American students’ knowledge and widening gaps between the highest and ...