The primacy of meeting public university students’ essential needs in the wake of COVID-19: An overdue higher education priority

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    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsIRB: In the email confirming payment, students were also directed to our guide to surviving and thriving at CUNY during the pandemic.10 The study was approved by the CUNY SPH’s institutional review board (protocol number 695980) and all participants provided informed consent prior to the IDI.
    Consent: In the email confirming payment, students were also directed to our guide to surviving and thriving at CUNY during the pandemic.10 The study was approved by the CUNY SPH’s institutional review board (protocol number 695980) and all participants provided informed consent prior to the IDI.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    No key resources detected.


    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    To meet students’ essential needs, institutions can: To meet students’ academic needs, institutions can: The study findings should be interpreted within its limitations. At the time of the interviews, the COVID-19 vaccine was widely available, and the delta variant was not prominent in the U.S. Thus, students’ perspective on the pandemic and its effects may have changed as the fall semester approached and school policies were changing to accommodate the increase in COVID-19 cases. Additionally, students were asked to recall experiences from a year prior, at the height of the pandemic. Their current situation may have influenced how they remembered these early pandemic experiences. While we expected that students from the “low” impact group might identify factors that mitigated the impact of the pandemic, our qualitative analysis did not find any noteworthy differences in barriers and facilitators across these groups. A possible explanation for this finding is that by the end of the first year of the pandemic, most students had developed strategies to find needed resources. By helping to address students’ essential needs and creating a culture of supportive faculty, institutions of higher education can improve the lives of students and increase academic persistence, achievement, and degree completion.14 By approaching policy and intervention development from a perspective that considers students’ holistic lives, during and post-pandemic, leaders of public universities serving ...

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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