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Collected Item: “The Real Pandemic: How America Believed the Coronavirus Proved the Existence of Educational Inequity”

Give your story or documents a proposed title

The Real Pandemic: How America Believed the Coronavirus Proved
the Existence of Educational Inequity

Tell us a story; share your experience. Or describe the item you are submitting. What does the object or story you've uploaded say about the pandemic, and/or why is it important to you?

I am submitting an auto-ethnography on my experience as a college student in the CUNY educational system during the transition to online learning and the pandemic.

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.? And where did you find it?

It is a text story in the format of a magazine

Are you the sole creator of these materials? (If no, please select "Other" and list the names of the content co-creators, their contact information, and the circumstances of how you came to have the materials. IMPORTANT: Each co-creator must fill out this form in order for the item to be accepted by the archives. However, only one co-creator is required to upload any document.)

Other

If you answered "other" to the question above, list your co-creators here.

Kayla Dorancy is the creator of the first part of the magazine (DOE focused)
Marissa Mann is the creator of the second part of the magazine (CUNY focused)

Give a date associated with this story or documents.

2020-03-20

What is your affiliation, if any, with Brooklyn College? (e.g. Junior undergrad majoring in history; faculty in the English Dept; human resources staff member; alumni; community member; Brooklyn resident; etc.)

Brooklyn College Senior (at the time of this article) now current alumni

If what you are submitting was created as part of a Brooklyn College class, please indicate the course code (i.e., ENG1010) semester, and professor:

It was sponsored by the Mellon Transfer Student Research Program in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council.

Use tags (separated by commas) to describe your story or documents. For example: Does it relate to a particular neighborhood? Does it relate to a particular aspect of the pandemic: school, work, family, hospital.

School, Education, CUNY, DOE, Brooklyn College, Virtual Learning

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