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Colleges Can Help Win the War Against COVID-19
Higher education institutions are well positioned to lead efforts beyond campus borders, write S. Abu Turab Rizvi and Peter Eckel, who offer three suggestions for doing so.
Out on the Balcony: Thinking Beyond the Crisis
COVID-19 has the potential to transform our institutions for the better, and this is the time to be thinking of the possibilities, writes Scott Cowen.
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Lead From the Future
The brand of remote instruction most colleges are offering now will create a backlash against online education. Colleges will have to significantly expand the learning ecosystem to overcome it, write Peter Stokes and Mark Johnson.
Here We Are… Yet Again
The American university is once more in financial crisis, writes Nicholas S. Zeppos, and he cites five lessons from the past to help deal with it this time around.
Don’t Cancel Commencement
This year, the podium and platform may be gone, but the audience may be wider than ever if your institution reinvents the ceremony, Vinca LaFleur and Ilana Ross argue.
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Go Outside the Box and Go Local
High school juniors need new strategies for applying to college in the coronavirus era, writes Susan Chan Shifflett.
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Contagious Civic Engagement
Such engagement can also spread like a virus, writes Michael S. Roth, and we must now turn to virtual tools to strengthen our networks for democracy.
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Teaching About an Outbreak in Real Time
Kim Mix, a professor of biological sciences, describes the challenges of educating students about the coronavirus when the imbalance between rapid-fire news and vetted scientific information has created a dangerous infodemic.