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Editor's note
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When a staff member at my brother’s small college tested positive for the coronavirus, the school sent students away and moved all classes for the rest of the year online.
Across the U.S., the same story has played out at many colleges and universities, with students leaving campus to move back into their parents’ homes.
Dudley Poston, a sociologist at Texas A&M University, points out that this scattering could have major consequences for the 2020 census. “Counties with large universities depend heavily on student responses to the decennial census,” he writes – but he estimates millions of students could now be undercounted.
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Howard University students moving out of dorms in Washington.
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Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
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