Omar Rashad

California lawmakers have spoken on average for more than six hours this year. Others have said comparatively little. How effective can you be if you stay silent?

Eight months into my first year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, in May 2021, I visited the university campus for the first time. Because of the pandemic, I was taking class virtually from 200 miles away, and repeated COVID-19 spikes pushed a campus visit down on my list of priorities.  Seeing San Luis Obispo […]

Read this article in English.   Los estudiantes universitarios de California regresan a las aulas al mismo tiempo que los casos de COVID-19 en el estado comienzan a disminuir debido a la oleada reciente causada por la variante omicron. Pero eso no significa que sea un camino fácil para los administradores universitarios encargados de mantenerlos a salvo.  […]

Resident advisers on college campuses have a complicated job in a normal year, and the COVID-19 pandemic is adding to their workload this fall.

Parker Tenove remembers looking at his track and field schedule for the 2020 spring season, marveling at the opportunity to run at competitions in California cities from Santa Monica to Bakersfield.  He’d turned down scholarship offers from universities near his Kansas hometown to attend community college in Torrance, California, hoping the proximity to the state’s […]