In spring 2020, many U.S. colleges and universities rapidly shifted to online instruction and implemented social distancing policies to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students experienced unprecedented disruption of their interpersonal academic and social networks due to the loss of physical proximity. We used egocentric network analysis and latent profile analysis with survey data from April 2020 and conducted follow-up interviews in September 2020 to examine some of the pandemic’s immediate effects on student interpersonal network change. We found the disappearance of interpersonal network patterns featuring coworkers and academic ties, as well as reductions in students’ overall number of connections and the role diversity of their networks. Results suggest potential ongoing reduction of peer academic relationships, implying that institutional personnel may need to pay particular attention to academic connections in online spaces and to regenerating students’ academic networks when on-campus physical spaces may again be used to support learning.

2020 年春季，许多美国高校迅速转向在线教学，并实施了社会疏离政策以应对 COVID-19 大流行。由于物理距离的丧失，学生的人际学术和社交网络经历了前所未有的破坏。我们对 2020 年 4 月的调查数据使用以自我为中心的网络分析和潜在概况分析，并在 2020 年 9 月进行了后续访谈，以检查大流行对学生人际网络变化的一些直接影响。我们发现以同事和学术关系为特征的人际网络模式消失了，学生的联系总数和网络角色多样性也减少了。结果表明，同伴学术关系可能会持续减少，