From students’ concerns about the job market to Father’s Day, here are this week’s top college student insights.
Job Market Concerns
A new College Pulse survey of 600 undergraduates finds that a majority are still concerned about the pandemic’s impact on the American job market, though their worries have waned since last year. Today 3 in 10 (30%) students say they’re very concerned and 48% say they’re somewhat concerned about coronavirus’ impact on the job market. By comparison, an April 2020 survey found that 52% of students were very concerned while 40% were somewhat concerned.
Students across the political spectrum are worried about the job market, but college Republicans are more likely than college Democrats to say they’re very concerned (40% vs. 29%).
How concerned are you about coronavirus’ impact on the American job market?
Father’s Day
Ahead of Father’s Day, a survey of 600 undergraduates finds many students have grown closer to their fathers since going off to college. Among students who have a father figure in their life, 3 in 10 (30%) say their relationship has gotten better since they started college. Just 1 in 10 (11%) say the relationship has gotten worse, and 59% say it has stayed the same. However, female students are twice as likely as male students to say their relationship with their father has gotten worse since starting college (14% vs. 6%).
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Methodology: All surveys were designed and conducted by College Pulse. Interviews were conducted among a sample of full-time and part-time students attending colleges or universities in the U.S. who are part of College Pulse’s American College Student Panel.
