Meaning Making: The Impact of COVID-19 on Residential Graduate Assistants

The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way that individuals have lived their lives. For most individuals, there has never been an experience in their lifetime that involved a global pandemic. For students in higher education, education was disrupted and altered to maintain health and safety of the public. Students enrolled in a graduate program who serve as graduate assistants have faced many challenges as a result of working towards finding creative ways to engage students virtually, while staying engaged in their full-time virtual coursework. The intention of this study is to examine the impact that COVID-19 has had on these students, and how graduate students and assistants are finding meaning through the experience of learning and working through a pandemic.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/graduate_student_research_prof/1001/thumbnail.jp