Considering Class Formats This Fall – Check Out This Article

In light of the ongoing debate about whether to proceed with online, hybrid, and/or in-person classes this fall term, here's a timely essay that explores the potential impact on student well-being and learning:  P. Huang, D. Austin, "Unsafe At Any Campus: Don't Let Colleges Become the Next Cruise Ships, Nursing Homes, and Meat Packing Plaints," forthcoming Indiana Law Journal Supplement (Jun. 16, 2020). https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3635804   According to the authors, "[r]eopening campuses is a public bad (because of multiple negative externalities to students, staff, local communities, and faculty), inequitable (to immunocompromised, older, disabled, and at-risk groups), and an inferior option (in terms of educational efficacy) to socially responsible higher education." Id. at 20.  As a side note, with many states in flux concerning this summer's bar exam, this article provides food-for-thought as to whether bar exam administrations and supreme courts ought to hold in-person bar exams or rather instead move expeditiously to online bar exams or consider temporary diploma licensure options, especially in light of increasing incidences of COVID-19 at the time of this posting.  (Scott Johns).