Jenny Spinner is reworking assignments for the journalism seminar she’s suddenly teaching online. She’s grappling with how to use media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic as a learning opportunity without asking students to follow it so closely that it harms their mental health. And because Spinner also runs her department’s internship program, she’s advising students whose work experiences have been upended.
Image: Tracie Van Auken for The Chronicle Jenny Spinner, a professor at Saint Joseph’s U., works with her son Finnian McGahey, a first-grader, on a spelling lesson outside her home, in Drexel Hill, Pa.
