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The Edge: Let’s Give a Kiss Goodbye to These 10 Pandemic-Endangered Practices
Higher ed is changing. Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer and Chronicle veteran, connects you with the people, trends, and ideas that are...


Colleges Are Cutting Varsity Sports. That Could Be a Good Thing.
Few of the cut programs will perish, instead transitioning to club teams that allow athletes to continue playing more on their terms,...


Colleges Are Fueling the Pandemic in a Classic Market Failure
Financial pressures explain why many campuses have brought students back. But there is a textbook solution, two economists say:...


No Home, No Wi-Fi: Pandemic Adds to Strain on Poor College Students
Some low-income students have dropped out, and there are growing concerns about hunger and homelessness. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/...


Against Schadenfreude
Higher education confronts a collapse that's more than whether we can continue to pay employees, more than whether our students and...


Why some colleges are winning against Covid-19, and others are losing
College campuses are coronavirus breeding grounds. They don’t have to be. By Katherine Harmon Courage https://www.vox.com/21445908/covid-...


Reinventing Higher Education for Affordability
William G. Durden explains how colleges might radically rethink one major aspect of contemporary undergraduate education: student life...


Reclaiming Intellectual Community
Technology encouraged social distancing on campuses long before the pandemic exacerbated it, writes Adam J. Davis, and the challenge now...


"It Really Was Abandonment: Virus Crisis Grips British Universities"
LONDON — Inside a dormitory now known by students as H.M.P., for Her Majesty’s Prison, trash piled up in shared kitchens. Students washed...


‘Zoom University’: is college worth the cost without the in-person experience?
Covid-19 has led many to question costs and highlights the fact that higher education institutions are businesses...


Google’s Genius $49/mo Course Is About to Replace College Degrees
“In our own hiring, we will now treat these new career certificates as the equivalent of a four-year degree for related roles.”...


The Three Lessons That 2020 Has Taught Every University President
Being a university president is a demanding, exhausting job at any time, involving service to multiple constituencies with competing -...


Design for the Future When the Future Is Bleak
Amid pandemics and environmental disasters, designers and architects have been forced to imagine a world in which the only way to move...


Colleges knew the risks but they reopened anyway. Here's how they got it all wrong
Going into the new school year, colleges and universities knew the risks. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/us/colleges-universities-reopen-...


COVID-19 outbreaks at universities: Students need safe places to socialize, not partying bans
As universities have reopened in various ways this fall after spring COVID-19 closures and a rapid move to online learning, new...


How One District Got Its Students Back Into Classrooms
Cajon Valley in California is doing something that many lower-income districts have postponed: offering in-person instruction....


Colleges, Conservatives and the Kakistocracy
Universities with traditionally progressive ideals can welcome conservative views, and still reject authoritarianism and hate....


Community Colleges Can Be Engines of Economic Recovery
With proper funding and innovation, two-year public colleges can handle job training for millions of people. https://www.nytimes.com/2020...


Ken Robinson, Who Preached Creativity in Teaching, Dies at 70
Dance, he said, is just as important as math. He was knighted for his work, and his TED Talk on schools and the arts was the most viewed...


As Covid-19 Lingers On, Universities Are Adjusting Their Spring Semester Plans
As Covid-19 Lingers On, Universities Are Adjusting Their Spring Semester Plans, Often Eliminating Spring Break...
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