Description

Last week, Georgia Tech Housing announced a plan to relocate residential students living with roommates into individual dorms and offered prorated refunds. Within 24 hours, it reversed course entirely, made the relocation optional, and cancelled requests for refunds.

To provide context for this week, we bring you an interview with Alexandra Marlette, a former RA at Georgia Tech. She tells us that none of GT Housing's response to COVID-19 is surprising.

• "To Combat COVID, Georgia Tech wants students to move into single rooms"
• "Inaction and Turnover Plague Housing"
• Twitter thread on Georgia Tech attempting to hire students to transport students to quarantine
• "Maintaining the Campus Experience in the Time of Social Distancing"

Episode Transcript

Theme song credit:

Canon in D Major by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3473-canon-in-d-major

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/