Bandwidth Breakdown in Students and Faculty in the United States due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Protests for Social Justice |Biomedgrid

The presence of the COVID-19 Pandemic [1] coupled with the more recent concomitant outbreak of protests for social justice after the murder of George Floyd [2] across major cities in the United States and internationally, has created a confluence of pressures affecting students and faculty in university settings. Not only have students and faculty had to cope with massive transformation of educational offerings to online versus onsite formats [3], but also they have had to further struggle with personal health risks regarding exposure to COVID-19, loss of family members, colleagues or classmates due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while continuing to navigate teaching and learning at high university standards [4].