Observers say some institutions in remote areas could be hit hard by the transition to online instruction and the economic fallout from the crisis. A few weeks after the coronavirus was detected on American soil, one small liberal arts college in rural Appalachia made the call to cancel in-person instruction and ask students to leave campus. But rather than continue classes online, as many other colleges were doing, officials at Berea College, in Kentucky, said they would find other ways for students to wind down the semester. In the announcement, Berea President Lyle Roelofs said the decision was in part to acknowledge that students wouldn't all have internet access when they returned home.
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