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Ashton, Bryan; Taylor, Zach; Smith, Steve; Meghani, Sana; Pyka, Ryan – Trellis Company, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust students, their support networks, and institutions of higher education toward a financial crisis. In response, the U.S. Senate signed the CARES Act into law, which provides institutions of higher education with $14 billion to support various campus functions. Within the CARES Act, the Senate allocated funding for…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
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McGowan, Bethany S. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
Activities using volunteered geographic information (VGI), geospatial data generated by nonprofessionals, provide an instructional approach that allows participants to work with big data--large, complex data sets--in a noncompetitive, cooperative environment. Research suggests that humanitarian mapping activities offer an effective means of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Participation, Geographic Information Systems, Web 2.0 Technologies