Title:
UNDERSTANDING ONE COLLEGE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS COVID-19 POLICIES

Authors:
Bozena Leven and Emily Heiden

Abstract:
Since late 2019, the Coronavirus (Covid-19) has so far killed over 949,000 people in the United States citizens (and counting), changing many people’s everyday lives. To mitigate these harms, many governments and institutions have implemented policies designed to slow the spread of the virus. Many of these policies have been politicized and are now controversial. We attempt to understand the attitudes to those policies based on students’ responses from one college – The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), a medium size US based liberal arts college. A better understanding of how the TCNJ student population perceives and is responding to college policies may provide meaningful insights into how TCNJ (and similarly situated institutions) can more effectively manage this and future pandemics.

Keywords:
COVID Policies, Students' Compliance

DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2022.5408