Karen is an educator and an author. Prior to becoming a college president, she was a tenured law professor for two plus decades. Her academic areas of expertise include trauma, toxic stress, consumer finance, overindebtedness and asset building in low income communities. She currently serves as Senior Counsel at Finn Partners Company. From 2011 to 2013, She served (part and full time) as Senior Policy Advisor to the US Department of Education in Washington, DC. She was the Department's representative on the interagency task force charged with redesigning the transition assistance program for returning service members and their families. From 2006 to 2014, she was President of Southern Vermont College, a small, private, affordable, four-year college located in Bennington, VT. In Spring 2016, she was a visiting faculty member at Bennington College in VT. She also teaches part-time st Molly Stark Elementary School, also in Vt. She is also an Affiliate of the Penn Center for MSIs. She is the author of adult and children’s books, the most recent of which are titled Breakaway Learners (adult) and Lucy’s Dragon Quest. Karen holds a bachelor degree in English and Spanish from Smith College and Juris Doctor degree (JD) in Law from Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law.
In this time of a pandemic and uncertainty of every sort and in every corner of our existence, we need to determine risk at the global, national, regional, local and personal levels.
Wrinkles is a dog. He’s very sociable and adores being with other four-legged creatures. He likes his two legged parents well enough but dogs are his preferred species. Even cats won’t do.
Many students enrolled in colleges and universities are now “out of school.”
The number of articles on the impact of the coronavirus on higher education is growing by the minute.
The title to this post raises a question and my answer is simple, though not universal: yes. To understand the impact of the threat of one getting or one’s loved one’s getting the coronavirus and a variety of other activities or inactivities related to it, we need to recognize the meaning of trauma.
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