“Because, you know, their Zoom camera is maybe not even on sometimes. “I missed watching students work,” Keller said. After a lunch break, they continue drawing. They start with morning drawing exercises, then watch an art film followed by a discussion. He’s glad to be back this summer because he sees a different mix of students - most often more high school students - in the summer.įor four days a week, students come to the studios for five hours of instruction. He’s also the president of the faculty union, Cabrillo College Federation of Teachers.Ĭabrillo hadn’t offered offered summer art courses since 2019, he said. He is a tenured, full-time faculty member who’s been teaching at Cabrillo for more than 30 years. Tobin Keller teaches Bartlett’s six-week drawing course. One student, on their knees, painted on a large canvas that leaned against the wall of one of the buildings that faced the small courtyard. Occasionally, students outside of the art department buildings walked from studio to studio. On Wednesday afternoon, the campus was calm. At Cabrillo, math, biology and chemistry are seeing the biggest drops in enrollment, while enrollment in visual and performing arts is up, he said. Wetstein said the experience of students this year will likely be similar to last summer: of all the students enrolled, 71.3% are returning Cabrillo students, while first-time Cabrillo transfer students, first-time college students and high school students make up the remainder in almost equal parts.Ĭompared to last summer, Wetstein said enrollment for full-time-equivalent students is down about 14% - a trend mirrored by colleges and universities across California and the country. Summer courses began June 13 at Cabrillo courses range in duration from four to eight weeks.
“And that new normal has a higher percentage of online learning.” “It feels like we’re on a bridge to some new normal,” Cabrillo College President Matt Wetstein told Lookout on Wednesday. In 2020, about 45% of its instruction was online last year 78% was online compared to 61% this year. This is the first summer since 2020 that UCSC is offering in-person instruction, while at Cabrillo the story is slightly different. While enrollment numbers are not yet final for this summer, both schools estimate slight declines. With conditions getting closer to pre-COVID times, instruction at Cabrillo and UCSC appears to be settling into what could be a new normal since the pandemic pushed all instruction online in spring 2020. In the fall, Bartlett thinks they’ll be taking two in-person classes and one remote class. “Just thinking, ‘Oh, where’s my classroom? Do I have everything?’. “The first day I was really anxious about everything,” they said.
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