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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.

The long-term survival of colleges and universities will hinge on their ability to deliver what matters most to students, employers and society, write Jamie Merisotis and Carrie Besnette Hauser.

States could use some of their federal stimulus funds to create corps of contact tracers in service-learning courses, Terry Hartle and David Stone argue.

Scott McLemee explores Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space by Kevin Peter Hand.