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PUBLIC HEALTH Chapel Hill and Notre Dame Are Just the Beginning By Francie Diep Both institutions have had to flip online in response to rapidly rising levels of infection. Public-health experts say other campuses will very likely suffer similar fates. |
WATCH FOR NEW UPDATES Here’s Our List of Colleges’ Reopening Plans By Chronicle Staff The Chronicle is teaming up with Davidson College’s College Crisis Initiative, which has collected reopening plans for nearly 3,000 institutions, to present a fuller view of the fall. |
Virtual Events: Tune In LiveLearn how student activists are trying to combat institutional racism. Sign up here for today’s conversation, our fourth in a series on race, class, and higher education.Develop strategies to weather the financial storm. Register here for Tuesday’s forum on what public colleges can do to sustain their business models.Assess students fairly and effectively in online courses. Sign up here for Wednesday’s forum on how to rethink traditional assessment techniques. | Subscribe to the Chronicle Our mission, at a time of crisis and uncertainty, is to ensure you have the information you need to make the best decisions for your institution, your career, and your students. Please consider subscribing today to sustain our continuing coverage. | | ADVICE Scholars Talk Writing: Vincent Brown By Rachel Toor A Harvard social historian of the African diaspora and Atlantic slavery seeks to tell unfamiliar stories “without letting the power of anti-Blackness stand in for Black history.” |
Paid for and Created by The Institute for Humane Studies With colleges pivoting toward virtual learning at an alarming rate due to the current environment, teaching resources are in high demand. A new video series helps faculty teach philosophy, politics, and economics. |
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Paid for and Created by London Metropilitan University With an expanding student population in the city and a costly housing market, London Metropolitan University explores how insecure housing and hidden homelessness affect students’ ability to achieve their full academic potential. |
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| The Chronicle's Latest Featured Report: The Post-Pandemic College [PRESALE SPECIAL] Leading experts examine how the pandemic will shape higher education in the years to come and what the college of the future may look like. To recover well, colleges must develop a more externally-focused business model, direct resources to expand professional development in online teaching, and continue to expand mental-health services. | |