Open AccessStudent Reflections on Working a Virtual Program in a Global Pandemic
Author(s) -
Jacob T Peterson,
Jamie Jacob Brunsdon,
Perry Charles
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of community engagement and scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2837-8075
pISSN - 1944-1207
DOI - 10.54656/ndgs8176
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , student engagement , medical education , community college , graduate students , center (category theory) , pilot program , sociology , pedagogy , medicine , chemistry , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , crystallography
For the past six summers, the Center for Community-Based Partnerships at the University of Alabama has hosted the Swim to the Top program at a local YMCA serving the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, community. The program offers instructor positions for undergraduate and graduate students attending the university. Due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, Swim to the Top had to go virtual in 2020. For the first time, instructors had to create content and connect virtually with the campers at the YMCA. The purpose of this article is to share and describe the experiences of three Swim to the Top student instructors—an undergraduate student, master’s student, and doctoral student—who participated in this virtual community engagement program during a global pandemic.