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COVID-19 is pushing colleges to close the digital divide

December 17, 2020

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Taking classes online has not been easy for many students at Coconino Community College during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The public two-year college in Flagstaff, Arizona, serves a sprawling 18,000-square-mile county that encompasses national forests, the Grand Canyon, and a large section of the Navajo Nation reservation. Its nearly 6,000 students live in some of the most remote areas of the country, many with no cell service to get online, and far away from campus, libraries and coffee shops to access free public Wi-Fi.

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