Undocumented Online: Undocumented/DACA Student Experiences Learning During a Global Pandemic
When the pandemic came, none of us were ready, especially in higher education. Even the most seasoned remote educators were shaken by the abrupt transition of an entire system of education to a format that most educators had relegated to the dark corners of academic to be ignored, taunted, and otherwise obfuscated from the view of students for fear that the institution would be devalued into the category of for-profit charlatan educators (Cicha, Rizun, Rutecka, & Strzelecki (2021). True, a number of for-profit institutions tried and failed (some miserably) to extract large sums of money from students seeking social mobility through education — a lingering mythical promise of the American Dream and meritocracy. But the faults of one corner of the market does not necessarily compromise the entire sector. If that was true, society would have done away with smartphones the second they started to spontaneously combust. That never happened. In fact, since 2000, technology availability and use skyrocketed. Most Americans are walking around with more technology in their back pocket than was available during the “space race” to put a human into orbit.
Think about that for a second. Entire governments spent billions of dollars to fill warehouses with the finest computing equipment available at the…
