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Colleges should redesign schedules to ensure more students are able to get the courses they need to move toward graduation and ultimately employment, argues Tom Shaver.

They can be a vital part of the pandemic response through immediate, translational, front-line work, argues Kirsten Ostherr.

Universities are not facing the biological and moral reality of this pandemic nor recognizing the limits of medical technology and political institutions to address the challenges, argue Irina Mikhalevich and Russell Powell.

While the obstacles are substantial and still growing in many cases, now is the time to identify the issues and prepare for the decisions needed in the months ahead, write Peter Schiffer and Jay Walsh.

Rather than hoping for a return to normal, colleges and universities should use this moment to do three difficult things: fix transfer, increase need-based aid and advance teaching quality, Joshua Wyner writes.

During a time of crisis, people are prone to focus on the tactical, but what we know already suggests we should be thinking longer term and for greater disruption, writes José Antonio Bowen.

Rather than cut tuition for newly online classes, colleges should help students affected by the pandemic to afford them, argues Robert J. Massa.

Don't go test optional, and if you do, call it something else, writes Yoon S. Choi.