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https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-one-southern-college-is-helping-students-with-nowhere-to-go-during-campus-shutdown/
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Southern college helps student find home - CBS News (Original Post)
sprinkleeninow
Sep 2020
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I've thought of that as well, what happens when a campus closes and a student is far from home?
Rhiannon12866
Sep 2020
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Rhiannon12866
(205,183 posts)1. K&R, a great video story!
How one southern college is helping students with nowhere to go during campus shutdown
As the number of coronavirus cases soar at colleges and universities, there is another major problem many students face when campuses shut down -- finding basic needs like a safe place to live and enough food to eat. For the "CBS This Morning" series A More Perfect Union, Meg Oliver shares how one small college in the South is helping students with nowhere to go.
As the number of coronavirus cases soar at colleges and universities, there is another major problem many students face when campuses shut down -- finding basic needs like a safe place to live and enough food to eat. For the "CBS This Morning" series A More Perfect Union, Meg Oliver shares how one small college in the South is helping students with nowhere to go.
sprinkleeninow
(20,235 posts)2. Thanks, dear one!
I just wish I could take her in and give her a home and provide all her necessities.
Stay safe and be of good health! 😍
Rhiannon12866
(205,183 posts)3. I've thought of that as well, what happens when a campus closes and a student is far from home?
We've already had some very large state university campuses close here in New York because of a spike in coronavirus cases even though they just opened this month - one shut down after just 2 weeks! The story in the local paper focused on two beginning local students who were both depressed and angry - at the group of students who chose to "party" - but at least these two freshman girls were able to go home...