The May 13, 2021 Issue of The Egalitarian

Thursday, May 13, 2021 • Vol. 46, No. 5 • HCCEgalitarian.com

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A M E S SAG E F R O M T H E B OA R D C H A I R Dear Graduates, Along with my colleagues on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees, please accept our congratulations on a job well done! Your hard work and dedication have paid off. We salute you and wish to recognize your families and friends who encouraged you and stood with you during your studies.

Robert Glaser

Chair, HCC Board of Trustees District V

At HCC, our highest priority is the success of our students. It has been so far five decades now, as we celebrate our 50th year providing education to our area. The Board, the college’s leaders, faculty members, and staff work together to ensure each student’s time at HCC is both inspiring and rewarding. We are proud of our outstanding faculty, our streamlined processes, modern and inviting facilities, our ability to offer low tuition, and the many student resources in place to help you succeed. We truly hope your experience at HCC exceeded your expectations.

Today, as you receive your certificate or degree, I encourage each of you to continue learning as a lifelong process. Build on what you have studied. Challenge yourself as you go about your professional lives and as you contribute to your families and communities. Remember this: Your friends at Houston Community College are ready to provide additional support along your journey. You will always remain a part of the HCC family!

Again, from the entire Board of Trustees, congratulations on your accomplishment today! We wish you all the best in the days and years to come.

Sincerely,

Robert Glaser Chair, HCC Board of Trustees District V

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A M E S SAG E FROM THE CHANCE LLOR Dear Graduates. ou can oo for inspiration and never find it, but so eti es it co es to you hen you least expect it. It came to me as I developed my thoughts on what to say to you in this congratulatory note.

Dr. Cesar Maldonado Chancellor

To begin, CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2021! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I have met only a few of you, and you were all optimistic of the future, that things would return to normal. I recall the hope that some of you had last March, hope that things would get better quickly. They didn’t.

Yet, you continued with your work at HCC, studying in uncommon modalities, earning of ne apps such as Tea s, oo , and eb , finding ays to re ain connected with your professors and with each other. When we closed our campuses on arch , , there as uch e didn t no . espite this, I as confident that the HCC family would stay strong. I saw that determination in your faces last March while we hoped for merely a brief detour in your educational journey.

It turns out that y confidence as e p aced. ecause of your dedication and perseverance – and the commitment from our faculty and advisors – a full 92 percent of HCC students completed the Spring 2020 semester. You made it happen.

Fall 2020 brought you more of the same challenges but with the added burden of “remote fatigue”. Some of you lost family and friends to the pandemic. Yet, you persisted. More Zoom, WebEx, separation from others, more stress. Yet, you forged ahead with unbridled determination, and you are now graduating as HCC Eagles Class of 2021. What a story of accomplishment!

What I have witnessed in you is resilience and willpower. This you will take with you as you leave HCC and embark on new adventures. Future challenges will be ever-present, but you have already proven your mettle, shown you strength.

You will succeed, and HCC will, too, because you are the inspiration for which we were searching.

Sincerely,

Cesar Maldonado, Ph.D., P.E. Chancellor Houston Community College

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Plans change, mission does not

Determination brings Monterroso to graduation Brizeyda Monterroso The Egalitarian

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his is a story years in the making, years more than what it was supposed to take.

That is what comes to mind when I think of my graduation from Houston Community College. I can try to shift the blame, but I know I would have graduated from university in 2016 if I had just focused.

Today, I force myself to look ahead and march forward to drown out that regret. I focus on what I love most: family. A close second, writing and art.

Lauren Rogulski The Egalitarian

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veryone has heard at some point in their life that things are not always fair. You may find that things may happen to you that you do not deserve. You may even experience unforeseen circumstances that altar the trajectory of your plans and find yourself in uncharted territory.

I can attest that I am one of the people that experienced the aforementioned cliches of life and more than likely rolled my eyes and thought “that wouldn’t happen to me.”

My original plan after high school was to attend Michigan State University like my grandmother, aunt and cousins had before me. I wanted to be a Spartan so badly that I didn’t even apply to any other university. It was all or nothing for me. When I received my acceptance letter, I was elated.

I felt my hard work had paid off and I swelled with unwavering confidence in my life’s plan.

Three years later at the end of my junior year at MSU, I was

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In the beginning ...

Image courtesy of Lauren Rogulski Lauren Rogulski’s initial plan of attending Michigan State like other family members were dashed with a Lyme Disease diagnosis. She battled back to regain her health and continue her mission to finish college.

diagnosed with Lyme Disease.

I felt as if the rug had been pulled out from underneath me. I could no longer dismiss the debilitating symptoms that struck me with a vengeance.

At first, I was told that I would more than likely need only one semester off from school to undergo treatment and recover.

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However, a semester turned into six years and thousands of dollars in medical bills.

Throughout this time, I was stunned by the negativity I received from numerous people. For example, I was told many times how “dropping

The year 2012 was a dark period for me. The excitement of being a high school senior was overshadowed by a long-standing period of depression. The fun and happy memories of the earlier years created such a stark contrast that I was stuck in the past for a long time. At first, the problems at home made school a great getaway. Eventually, as I started to struggle in my classes, I decided to skip that, too. Where did I go? That’s easy, the people who knew me best knew I was always in a library.

My figurative and literal wall against the outside world was made of books.

One day, as I enjoyed the ONTERROSO newfound freedom of enrolling in a self-paced online format, I received a letter in the mail.

It was an acceptance letter to the University of Houston. This would provide the motivation to graduate high school and start something new.

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A couple of years later, I decided to take a break from my courses to

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Michael Miller/College Station Eagle via AP Kaitlin Chambless, left, celebrates after taking her symbolic diploma during a Texas A&M University makeup graduation ceremony for spring and summer 2020 graduates, at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. Scores of campuses around the U.S. are offering last year’s graduates a chance to experience the in-person commencements they missed out on when the pandemic upended life. Some are inviting them to join in festivities for the Class of 2021, while others are hosting separate commencements for them this spring or special events later this year.

‘Last hurrah’: 2020 college grads finally get ceremonies Kantele Franko Associated Press

WESTERVILLE, Ohio — After she was picked as commencement speaker for felow 2020 graduates at Otterbein University, Katie Exline considered focusing her speech on perspective. By the time she finally got to deliver it in front of them this month, they already had some of that.

“I don’t need to tell you all about the incredible things we are going to do or the ways that we will grow during our careers, because we have already started that process,” Exline, fresh off her first year of optometry studies at another university, said during the socially distanced ceremony at the small Ohio school. “This past year has been filled with uncertainties and situations far beyond anything I would have even dreamed of writing in a speech for the spring of 2020.”

Like Otterbein, scores of campuses around the U.S. are offering last year’s graduates a chance to experience the in-person commencements they missed out on when the pandemic upended life. Some are inviting them to join in festivities for the Class of 2021.

Others are hosting separate commencements for them this spring or special events later this year.

“We definitely wanted to honor that 2020 just had a heck of a senior year, and we wanted to try to acknowledge that in a positive way,” said Sarah Fatherly, the provost and vice president for academic affairs at North Carolina’s Queens University of Charlotte, which

had its belated ceremony at a baseball stadium in early May. Class president Juan Diego Mazuera Arias was disappointed to not have Queens’ traditional pomp and circumstance last spring. But he tried not to show it, he said, because his immigrant parents were so excited about watching their Colombian-born son, now a legal resident seeking U.S. citizenship, become the first in their family to graduate college.

“This in-person graduation means the absolute world to them,” said Mazuera Arias, who studied political science and has been working in Washington. “They, in a way, get to see all their hard work being paid off through me.”

The potential for commencement to be a transformative moment also factored in for planners at Owens Community College in Ohio, which decided 2020 graduates could join its May ceremony. Hunter Augustyniak, of Toledo, is eager for that celebratory closure after an anti-climactic ending with virtual classes and an internship that fell apart because of the pandemic.

“Coming from somebody who like literally dropped out of high school, never intended on going to college, first-generation student who is surrounded by college dropouts, it really did mean a lot to me,” said Augustyniak, who studied music business technology.

Some young adults already made transitions to jobs or other endeavors or just aren’t interested in having a ceremony now. But it’s clear a significant

number find it fun and meaningful, said Jacob Lockhart, the 2020 class president at the University of Idaho.

“I still think that feeling of completion is what a lot of folks were longing for,” Lockhart said.

Skylar Smith, of Los Angeles, is traveling all the way from California back to Washington D.C. to attend Howard University’s commencement for 2020 grads. Smith, now training for a job in medical device sales, said it’s worth the trip to “get that last hurrah” with friends from school and from her swim team.

The University of Missouri had multiple ceremonies for its 2020 alumni, honoring a few hundred at a time in its arena.

Texas A&M brought 2020 grads back to its football stadium for a celebration.

Many of the schools hosting graduations are limiting or excluding guests, staying outdoors, requiring masks and social distancing, and skipping the handshakes or the stage crossings altogether. Plenty more campuses are forgoing traditional commencements again this year because of coronavirus concerns, opting instead for virtual or alternative celebrations.

At Sacramento State’s “CARmencement,” 2020 and 2021 degree recipients will get to decorate their vehicles and drive through campus with guests, being cheered by faculty and staff at designated spots along the route. Several other schools scheduled drive-in graduations or staggered solo opportunities for graduates to walk across a stage and get their photo taken.

work full time. When I finally moved back in with my parent to restart school, I decided a shorter program would be best so that I could provide more for my family and myself in the shortest time possible.

I had become interested in medical assisting through a family member and that led me to attend the medical assisting program at HCC. This period was the most financially difficult. I could only work weekends and would not have been able to make it had it not been for my mother letting me stay with her and the flexibility my employer allowed me to have.

The arguments about whether I was devoting enough time to my significant other and the sleepless nights I spent studying were also emotionally taxing. I questioned myself and wanted to give up. Nevertheless, I passed the course and made a perfect score on the certification exam.

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I loved the people I met and got to work with as a medical assistant. The physicians, staff and patients would all lend me a new perspective on healthcare, especially during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Still, something inside told me that it was not where I belonged.

It stirred inside me like a restless beast.

The end ... for now

Once again, I resumed classes at HCC, this time focusing on my original interests of writing and media studies. After, again, struggling to juggle work and life responsibilities, I will be graduating with an Associate of Arts in Communications and will continue my journey to achieve my dreams at a four-year university.

Going forward, I know the worst and best is yet to come.

The course load will push me to my limits, but I will not be sidetracked. Not this time.

Rogulski, From Page 4 out of college” was the worst decision I had made and therefor had ruined my life.

Many people looked down on me and considered me less than for not having a degree. Another repeating theme I encountered was “the longer you wait to go back, the less likely it will be that I ever graduate.” I would politely explain that I did not have an identity crisis and needed to backpack through Europe to find myself, I was battling a serious illness. Where was the empathy and encouragement?

Even though I constantly vowed I would one day return to college and graduate, it was little reassurance to the naysayers who implied I was going to be just another statistic or cautionary tale.

I decided to harness the antagonism and develop a strategy that would work for me.

Over time, and when I felt well enough, I took the required core classes that my credits from MSU did not fulfill. And here I am today. A member of the graduating class of 2021.

To the graduates: Congratulations!

We’re glad to play a tiny part in your celebration.

Please don’t minimize this moment — and the people that helped you along the way — as we work together to get through the pandemic.

Give yourself a pat on the back.

Make that TikTok video in your regalia.

Give yourself a high-five.

Together, let’s reflect and focus on the new horizons that lay ahead.

Together, we will get through this. isn’t that what #HoustonStrong is all about?

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Trio to deliver keynote speeches at HCC ceremonies Special To The Egalitarian Houston Community College announced its keynote speakers for its spring commencement ceremonies.

Judge Lina Hildago is slated to address HCC graduates Friday, while Tiffany Grady speaks to VAST Academy graduates earlier Friday.

Naidu Gracia will speak to the college’s TxCHSE graduates Thursday.

Lina Hildago

Hidalgo is the head of Harris County’s governing body. She is the first woman to be elected County Judge and only the second to be elected to the Commissioners Court.

Harris County is the third largest county in our nation.

Its population of more than 4.5 million rivals that of the entire state of Colorado. The Harris County Judge and four County Commissioners oversee a $4.3 billion budget that helps fund key county services and institutions.

The County Judge is the presiding officer on the Commissioners Court. As the main governing body of Harris County, the Commissioners Court plays a critical role that is part administrative, part legislative, and part judicial.

Its many responsibilities include adopting a budget; setting tax rates; calling for bond elections; building and maintaining county infrastructure such as roads and bridges; and overseeing county courthouses, jails, libraries, parks, and the Harris County Flood Control District.

By state law, the County Judge is also the county’s director of emergency management, leading the Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management

(HCOHSEM). In addition to her formal duties, Judge Hidalgo plays an important advocacy role for the county.

Judge Hidalgo believes that our region will remain competitive only through proactive and creative leadership on issues like flood control, transportation, criminal justice reform, and education. She is committed to ensuring that Harris County government is transparent, accessible, and accountable to every resident. She wants Harris County to be a place where everyone can attain the American Dream.

Tiffany Grady

Grady is an HCC and VAST Academy Alumni.

After graduating from VAST, Tiffany continued her studies at HCC and went on to receive an Associate of Science Degree in Child Development. While at HCC she was inducted into the National Honor’s Society of Leadership and Success.

Tiffany did not let her disability or any challenges get in the way of fulfilling her dream of becoming a teacher.

Tiffany will be pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the University of Houston.

In addition to working and continuing her education, Tiffany has presented at conferences both in person and virtually representing the HCC-VAST Academy as a successful alumnus sharing her personal story and inspiring others to not give up on their dream of completing a college education.

She has been employed at HEB as a Customer Service Associate for the past 14 years where she has received numerous recognition such as “Employee Partner of the Month”. Tiffany has also been

Houston Community College announced its keynote speakers for its spring commencement ceremonies.

Judge Lina Hildago (top) will address HCC graduates Friday. Tiffany Grady (left) is slated to address the VAST Academy graduates Friday. Naidu Gradia (right) speaks to TxCHSE graduates Thursday.

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an active volunteer with the Texas Children’s Museum, HCC Child Care Center, and The Buffalo Soldier’s Museum.

Tiffany’s advice to other students who may feel like they can’t reach their goals because of their disability is to “keep pushing themselves no matter

how hard it gets. I want you to challenge yourself and don’t sit idle; teach yourself. As long as you are moving forward, you’ll gain ground on your goals.”

Naidu Gracia

Gracia is a mother of four beautiful children and the wife

of one lucky husband. She is the youngest of nine siblings. She has been a Certified Medical Assistant for 16 years with Texas Children’s Hospital. She was nominated and was named the 2021 Texas Adult Literacy and Education (TALAE) Student of the Year.

Job market for new grads: Much hiring but much competition Travis Loller & Christopher Rugaber Associated Press

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Natalie Naranjo-Morett stands for a portrait Monday, April 19, 2021, in San Diego. “I’ve started to look for jobs,” said Natalie Naranjo-Morett, who will graduate in June with a history degree from the University of California San Diego. “I want to go into museum work, but that’s become very difficult because of the pandemic.”

After a painful year of joblessness, the future has finally brightened for Alycia St. Germain, a 22-year-old college senior at the University of Minnesota.

Having lost a part-time gig at Barnes and Noble last March as the viral pandemic tore

through the U.S. economy, she was left unemployed like tens of millions of other Americans.

But now, St. Germain has a job lined up — with benefits — even before graduation and in her chosen field of developmental psychology. A family friend established a new child-care center in St. Paul, and St. Germain landed a job as an assistant in the infant room.

“This,” she said, “is probably

the most positive thing that could happen.”

Not all new college grads will find a job so quickly.

But collectively, this year’s graduating class is poised for better prospects than were the 2020 seniors, who had the misfortune to graduate into the depths of the brutal see Job Market, Page 7

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COVID-19 pet boom has veterinarians backlogged, burned out Kelli Kennedy

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — During the gloomiest stretches of the pandemic, Dr. Diona Krahn’s veterinary clinic has been a puppy fest, overrun with new four-legged patients.

Typically, she’d get three or four new puppies a week, but between shelter adoptions and private purchases, the 2020 COVID-19 pet boom brought five to seven new clients a day to her practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. Many are first-time pet owners.

Like many veterinarians across the country, she’s also been seeing more sick animals. To meet the demand, vets interviewed by The Associated Press have extended hours, hired additional staff and refused to take new patients, and they still can’t keep up. Burnout and fatigue are such a concern that some practices are hiring counselors to support their weary staffs.

“Everyone is working beyond capacity at this point,” said Krahn, who added evening hours last year.

Approximately 12.6 million U.S. households got a new pet last year after the pandemic was declared in March 2020, according to a COVID-19 Pulse Study by the American Pet Products

Association.

Meanwhile, fewer people relinquished their pets in 2020, so they needed ongoing care, experts said. And as people worked from home and spent more time with their pets, they’ve had more opportunities to notice bumps, limps and other ailments that could typically go untreated.

Vets were already struggling to meet the pre-pandemic demand, with veterinary schools unable to churn out enough doctors and techs to fill the void.

Krahn left her North Carolina practice three months ago and now oversees nine veterinary and animal hospital clinics across Utah and Idaho under Pathway Vet Alliance.

“All of my practices are booking out several weeks in advance. Clients are actually calling around and scheduling appointments at multiple locations,” and even resorting to emergency care facilities, she said.

Banfield Pet Hospital, one of the largest national providers of preventive veterinary medicine, had approximately half a million more pet visits in 2020 than in 2019. And its telehealth service more than doubled in volume from March through the end of last year.

Thrive, another veterinary hospital primary care group, with 110 facilities

Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo Dr. Katarzyna Ferry, left, looks over at dog named Wendy who is being treated for a flare-up of Addison’s disease, Monday, April 12, 2021, at the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of Palm Beach Gardens in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Forced to stay at home due to the pandemic, Americans adopted nearly 12 million pets last year meaning the average vet clinic saw nearly 400 new patients last year. Veterinarian offices across the country are experiencing unprecedented demand, adding extra staff and extending hours to fill in the gaps. “We are still short staffed despite active seeking of additional staff,” said Ferry.

across the U.S., reported a 20% increase in demand during the pandemic.

Both repeated a common refrain — as humans spent more time with their pets, they were more in tune with their ailments — big and small.

“With COVID, a lot of people became powerless to the ones closest to them,” said Claire Pickens, a senior director at Thrive, “but the one thing they still had the ability to control was caring for their pet.”

Clinics have been forced to streamline, having patients fill out forms online or by phone pre-appointment because hiring

additional staff often isn’t an option.

“The industry is growing at a rate that it can’t fill all the roles needed to keep up with the increased demand for services,” said Pickens.

Veterinary positions are projected to grow 16% by 2029, nearly four times the average of most other occupations, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Vet tech jobs are expected to increase nearly 20% in the next five years.

“We are still short staffed despite active seeking of additional staff,” said Dr. Katarzyna Ferry, Veterinary Specialty Hospital of Palm Beach Gardens.

Job Market, From Page 6 coronavirus recession. Though the competition will be stiff — this year’s graduates will have to compete, in many cases, with 2020 graduates who are still seeking their first full-time job — employers are ramping up hiring. And many are desperate for workers.

On Friday, the government reported that employers added just 266,000 jobs in April, a surprisingly sharp slowdown from the 770,000 that were added in March. Yet much of that lapse reflected a shortage of available workers, economists say. The economic rebound is strengthening so fast that many businesses are struggling to quickly attract enough applicants to fill jobs.

The pace of job openings, in fact, has fully recovered from the pandemic and is now far above pre-recession levels, including in professional occupations that college students are more likely to seek and that can typically be done from home.

“I don’t think this recession will be as bad for college graduates as previous recessions have been,” said Brad Hershbein, an economist at the Upjohn Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan. “That segment of the labor market is going to recover faster than other segments where jobs can’t be done remotely.”

Hershbein said he worries, though, that the pandemic will dim the economic prospects of young adults who were unable to complete, or even start, their educations during the pandemic.

Data has shown sharp drops in enrollment at community and four-year colleges.

Even so, college seniors will be competing against a largerthan-usual universe of job seekers when you include last year’s crop of graduates.

“Because there is a large pool of unemployed workers, companies can pick exactly who they want and skip over people with less experience,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.

Graduating into a recession has historically led to poor outcomes for many young people, with research showing that they sometimes bear longrunning scars. Starting a career in a recession can lead to lower incomes for as long as a decade afterward for those graduates, compared with their peers who completed college just before or after a recession.

The sectors of the economy that face the most difficulty in regaining all their lost jobs are the service sectors that were hit hardest by the pandemic recession: Restaurants, bars, hotels, gyms, and entertainment venues. Though

college graduates often take such jobs temporarily, they typically seek out careers in professional or technical fields, where job losses were far less severe last year and are now recovering.

Sheila Jordan, chief digital technology office at Honeywell, said she’s recruiting more students and recent graduates for paid internships than she did last year — internships that often lead to permanent jobs.

She is especially interested in students with a range of technical backgrounds, including software, data analytics and cybersecurity.

“We like to recruit once, hire twice,” Jordan said of the internships. “That’s a feeder group for us.”

Lucius Giannini, who graduated last summer from the University of California San Diego with a degree in political science and public policy, had hoped to find work with the Peace Corps or teaching English overseas. But when COVID-19 struck, the Peace Corps brought home all its volunteers. And no one was hiring for overseas teaching.

Giannini moved back in with his parents and broadened his job search for eight months.

In March, he secured a paid marketing internship with a small pharmaceutical

company.

It’s not his field of expertise, but, Giannini said, “They figure, ‘You’re young, you understand social media.’ So that’s what I do.”

The internship will be over by the end of summer, so he may be back on the job hunt. He is also applying to law school.

For college grads who do find jobs, the “onboarding” process, through which they meet co-workers and become acclimated to their employer’s culture, has had to occur in an entirely new remote setting.

Still, that hasn’t always worked out so badly. Some companies have ramped up their efforts to make new employees feel welcome, even if they are working remotely.

Dominique Davis, a senior at Tennessee State University, interned with Toyota last summer from her family home in Danville, Illinois. Yet she said she met just as many people then as she did in the summer of 2019, when she interned at the company’s headquarters in Plano, Texas.

“I think I networked even more this term than being in the building,” she said. “It forces you to reach out. It’s less awkward, less intimidating. I would have conversations on a daily basis with the VP of my department.

Normally, you can’t just go into his office and sit down and have

a conversation.”

Davis plans to go straight into graduate school for her MBA. But as president of the student body, she is well-aware that some other seniors are struggling with their next steps.

“I have heard of multiple students who are having trouble getting interviews or internships,” Davis said.

“Especially in the medical fields, some students are hesitant, afraid because of the virus.”

Natalie Naranjo-Morett, who will graduate in June with a history degree from UCSD, is looking for work in museums.

“But,” she said, “that’s become very difficult because of the pandemic.”

Museums have been clobbered over the past year.

In a recent survey by the American Alliance of Museums, nearly one-third of museum directors said they either faced a significant risk of closing permanently by next fall or didn’t know if their institutions would survive.

Naranjo-Morett, who has applied unsuccessfully for some internships, says there appear to be few job openings.

She’d like to find work related to her history degree.

But “it’s so difficult at this point, I kind of would go for anything,” she said.

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