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If a college's reopening were an experiment, David Grant and Mark Meaney ask, would it be approved by an institutional review board?

Nicholas H. Snow offers a suggestion to his research scholar colleagues: navigate this perfect storm by making teaching and serving undergraduate students your highest priority.

The pandemic could cause permanent college closures, write Amy Laitinen, Clare McCann, David Tandberg and Dustin Weeden, and institutions should already be planning for the possibility.

Even if it occurred for just for a brief time, the impact on the first day of classes for many students cannot be understated, Ben Stoviak writes.

It belongs as much as other factors, writes David Holmes.

Their use should be watched, but they shouldn't be eliminated, writes Matthew Pietrafetta.

Colleges should determine and publicly post those that will guide their life-and-death decisions once they reopen, Andrew M. Schocket urges.

Scott McLemee reviews Bernard-Henri Lévy's The Virus in the Age of Madness.