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Loss of Opportunities to Learn Soft Skills

In this clip, a professor speaks about noticing how post-pandemic students are missing certain opportunities. She was struck by how unfamiliar and uncomfortable they were putting together a presentation, and realized it was because usually they would have already had multiple chances to practice but hadn’t.

I’ve noticed for our students a difficulty coming back and unsure about how to engage our freshmen who did their junior and senior year online. So many of those you know, I hate to call them soft skills, but those additional skills, they’re just not coming in with them.