Colette Pierce Burnette of Huston-Tillotson University says keeping students and staff safe was paramount. Black people are dying from COVID-19 at two and a half times the rate of white people.
Colette Pierce Burnette is the president of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. The HBCU is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state.Colette Pierce Burnette is the president of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. The HBCU is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state.
"We must have looked at over a dozen different scenarios — from being fully online to being fully on ground here on campus," she tells."The students' health, the safety of our faculty, our staff, the people who work here, was paramount." Why did you ultimately come to the decision to go fully online as opposed to online in a limited way, but still have some in-person, socially distanced components to the curriculum in the upcoming year?
And then you add on top of that my concern for the safety and well-being of our students. It ended up being a complicated decision to make, a very hard decision to make, but I slept better that night once the campus decided that this is the best thing for us to do. ... And it's temporary. It's not long lasting. We are not becoming an online school.
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