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No Parties. No Sports. How Oberlin College Is Surviving the Pandemic.
Colleges across the country are figuring out how Covid has changed the college experience, while parents are struggling to understand why schools haven’t changed their price tag.
Thursday, February 18th, 2021
kara swisher
Hi, I’m Kara Swisher, and you’re listening to “Sway.” Last fall, my eldest son, Louie, started college at N.Y.U. during the pandemic. As a parent, I had a ton of questions, like how schools were making safety decisions, of course. But also, how would they justify their high price tags for what was essentially Zoom classes? Those are the questions that Carmen Twillie Ambar has been grappling with for the past year. She’s the president of Oberlin College, a small liberal arts school in Ohio, well known for its music conservatory and for its progressive student body.