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Learning From a Distance at Coppin | Afro

By Jared Grizzle Special to the AFRO Sitting at home, worlds away from peers and instructors is not the way most students hoped they would be starting the fall semester. For 22-year-old Coppin State University student Tyrek Goy his mindset approaching the Fall 2020 semester was no different. Goy is a senior criminal justice major […]

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