September 17, 2020

  One of the things Professor Kimberly Mangun misses most since quarantining is her Zumba classes.  “I used to religiously take my exercise classes and that was something that I had on my calendar,” Mangun said. “I was committed to doing it because it was on my calendar, and I lost that with the pandemic… it's really, really hard for me to replace that.”  Mangun, who is teaching an introductory news writing course and mass communication history class at the University of Utah this semester, had her last Zumba class on March 12, 2020. Mangun is only teaching virtually because of an autoimmune disease requiring rigorous adherence to quarantining. “It has been really challenging,” Mangun said. “I mean, I think most faculty love being in the classroom. We love the interaction with students. We love being able to make those connections between a student's lived...