Disrupted Access and Success: Students’ Transition to University during COVID

by Jessie L. Moore

September 15, 2022

60-Second SoTL – Episode 3

This week’s episode features an open-access article from SOTL in the South about how the pandemic impacted students’ transitions to higher education:

Inglis, Helen, Celeste Combrinck, and Zach Simpson. 2022. “Disrupted Access and Success: Students’ Transition to University in the Time of Covid-19.” SOTL in the South 6 (2): 53-72. https://doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v6i2.227

View a transcript of this episode.

The episode was hosted by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric. 60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University.

Read More about COVID’s Impact on Learning in Higher Education

  • Bartolic, Silvia, Uwe Matzat, Joanna Tai, Jamie-Lee Burgess, David Boud, Hailey Craig, Audon Archibald, Amy De Jaeger, Regina Kaplan-Rakowski, Louise Lutze-Mann, Patsie Polly, Mary Roth, Tania Heap, Jenilyn Agapito, and Neil Guppy. 2022. “Student Vulnerabilities and Confidence in Learning in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Studies in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2022.2081679
  • Czerniewicz, Laura, Najma Agherdien, Johan Badenhorst, Dina Belluigi, Tracey Chambers, Muntuwenkosi Chili, Magriet de Villiers, Alan Felix, Daniela Gachago, Craig Gokhale, Eunice Ivala, Neil Kramm, Matete Madiba, Gitanjali Mistri, Emmanuel Mggwashu, Nicola Pallitt, Paul Prinsloo, Kelly Solomon, Sonja Strydom, Mike Swanepoel, Faig Waghid, and Gerrit Wissing. 2020. “A Wake-Up Call: Equity, Inequality and Covid-19 Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning.” Postdigital Science and Education 2 (3): 946-967. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00187-4 [Open Access]
  • Muhammad, Nasim, and Seshasai Srinivasan. 2021. “Online Education During a Pandemic: Adaptation and Impact on Student Learning.” International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy 11 (3): 71–83. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v11i3.20449 [Open Access]
  • Williamson, Ben, Rebecca Eynon, and John Potter. 2020. “Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practices: digital technologies and distance education during the coronavirus emergency.” Learning, Media and Technology 45 (2): 107-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2020.1761641

Read More about Students’ Transitions to Higher Education

  • Bangeni, Bongi, and Rochelle Kapp. 2005. “Identities in Transition: Shifting Conceptions of Home among ‘Black’ South African University Students.” African Studies Review 48 (3): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2006.0004
  • Dias, Diana, and Maria José Sá. 2012. “From High School to University: Students’ Competences Recycled.” Research in Post-Compulsory Education 17 (3): 277-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2012.700094
  • Gale, Trevor, and Stephen Parker. 2014. “Navigating Change: A Typology of Student Transition in Higher Education. Studies in Higher Education 39 (5): 734-753. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2012.721351
  • Groves, Oliva, and Sarah O’Shea. 2019. “Learning to ‘be’ a University Student: First in Family Students Negotiating Membership of the University Community.” International Journal of Educational Research 98: 48–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2019.08.014
  • McGhie, Venicia. 2017. “Entering University Studies: Identifying Enabling Factors for a Successful Transition from School to University.” Higher Education 73 (3): 407–22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26447622
  • Mgqwashu, Emmanuel M., Sue Timmis, Thea de Wet, and Nkosinathi Emmanuel Madondo. 2020. “Transitions from rural contexts to and through higher education in South Africa: negotiating misrecognition.” Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 50 (7): 943-960. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1763165

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