Spring 2023 Report
Spring 2023 Report By Rich Cameron California community college student publications are inching back to production levels of Spring 2020, the semester the pandemic hit, but are still well short of the following spring when all schools were forced into remote instruction. Spring 2020 numbers are not exactly "pre pandemic," but provide a baseline for production numbers today. The semester was the first semester I gathered numbers under the current format, but it was interrupted mid-way by the pandemic. That semester student publications posted 5,636 stories, though numbers appeared to increase about 14 percent in the second half of the semester. The following spring, when everyone was operating from home, the same publications posted 1,200 stories more (6,825) than the ill-fated semester, though many were first-person stories. Spring 2023 marked the fourth spring semester of this Online Elsewhere research series and the sixth overall. This spring, as all schools retur...