San Jose City College will provide students and staff with supplies they need for remote learning, but so far enrollment is down during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe District has laptops, Wi-Fi hotspots, monitors, office chairs and other supplies to ensure you have all you need to work comfortably from home,\u201d Chancellor Byron Breland wrote in a July 24 memo.<\/p>\n
Director of Marketing and Public Relations Daniel Garza wrote in an email that free loaner e-textbooks will also be available.<\/p>\n
Even though the fall semester will be taught in a mostly virtual format, some classes will have a hybrid component.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will have our Allied Health Labs open for students in medical assisting, dental assisting and EMT programs,\u201d\u00a0Garza\u00a0wrote.<\/p>\n
Biology Department Coordinator Carlos Rojo wrote in an email that some work being done in the Biology Department\u00a0will include\u00a0flipped lectures.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a flipped lecture, students watch lecture content in video form \u2026 Then they meet with the instructor to apply the material they learned to relevant scenarios, clinical cases or scientific examples,\u201d Rojo wrote.<\/p>\n
Rojo also said students will also receive kits, access to virtual experiments and at-home student exercises.<\/p>\n
Classes such as cosmetology and journalism will continue 100% online, using Zoom and Canvas to access classes and course materials.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have all our equipment at home, everything that we would have at school,\u201d cosmetology coordinator Carol Ramirez-Bost said. \u201cWe even have tables students can pick up and use at home so that they can have more of a learning environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramirez-Bost also said the department put together kits for students between spring break and the summer semester that included items such as colors, perms and lighteners that would normally be available in the class.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have all the equipment needed to do online classes,\u201d Ramirez-Bost said.<\/p>\n