When the new coronavirus forced campus closures and upended higher education, colleges scrambled to stitch together emergency support for their most vulnerable students. Fearing it wouldn’t be enough, many low-income students armed with Cash App, Venmo, and PayPal accounts turned to the internet with pleas for help.
But what about the students who aren’t so internet savvy or comfortable asking strangers for money? wondered Jessi Russell, a senior at Wesleyan University. The ones university support wasn’t reaching or who might otherwise be falling through the cracks?
