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The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing structural inequalities in American higher education

Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is casting light onto deeply rooted structural inequalities in America — and in American higher education. This pandemic has been devastating for community college students, uncovering chronic economic hardships unsuspected except by a few higher education researchers — and by those who have always experienced it.