During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Dwaun J. Warmack, president of Claflin University, received an email from a student who had left campus and returned home to quarantine. The student wrote: “It is my prayer that Claflin’s passion for education aligns with its compassion.” “I am currently typing my senior research paper at the local McDonald’s that I drive to nine miles every day to do this work because my town doesn’t have Wi-Fi bandwidth,” the student wrote. She said she would sit in the parking lot for four hours daily to work on her senior thesis. Shortly after receiving
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