Editorial: student affairs in a traumatic year

SOURCE: Journal of Student Affairs in Africa
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): B.Schreiber, T.Moja, T.Luescher
KEYWORDS: COVID-19, HIGHER EDUCATION, STUDENTS (COLLEGE)
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11725
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15727
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15727

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Abstract

The year 2020 is a year that we will remember globally in higher education as having been most unusual, indeed, traumatic. If at the beginning of 2020 the year had a hopeful ring with plenty, as it comes to an end it is hard to just try and make sense of the extent that the experience of higher education has been changed so incisively within a short time for both staff and students. And the signs are already there that the post-COVID-19 period will not be short of new challenges either. Challenges like addressing the increased mental health issues students suffer due to the crisis, illness, loss of loved ones and more.