Bursting the College Bubble

Published: May 5, 2020, 9:54 a.m.

Universities across the United States have long prided themselves on bridging the differences between their students. How the coronavirus has instead reinforced inequalities that campus life can hide. Guest: Nicholas Casey, a national politics reporter at The New York Times, who spoke to faculty and students at Haverford College, a liberal arts school near Philadelphia. For more information on today\u2019s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.\xa0\n\nBackground reading:\xa0When the students were sleeping in the same dorms and eating the same dining hall food, the disparities in their backgrounds weren\u2019t as clear as they are over video chat. Here\u2019s a peek inside two students\u2019 vastly different worlds.