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A Day in the Life of a Remote Instructor: Fall 2020
Jenae Cohn envisions how the term may unfold for a faculty member who remains off campus in September.
A Day in the Life of a Remote Undergraduate Student: Fall 2020
Beth Seltzer envisions how the term may unfold for a student who remains off campus in September.
Refusing Even to Decide?
Both last week's NLRB decision and a case before the Supreme Court, writes Patrick Hornbeck, focus on one query: What kind of questions can courts constitutionally ask about faculty at religiously affiliated educational institutions?
Thinking Like a Designer in Uncertain Times
In times of crisis like today, colleges should think quite differently than they do in a traditional strategic planning process and consider six basic principles, argues David P. Haney.
Sex, Social Distancing and the Fall Semester
In this global pandemic, adults must get over their squeamishness about young people’s sexuality and talk about how sex figures into campus life, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan contend.
Protecting Academic Freedom in the Black Lives Matter Era
Faculty often fail to rally behind colleagues who buck the conventional wisdom, argues Jonathan Zimmerman, citing the recent case of a professor who criticized the BLM movement.
AP Is Good for Students
The Advanced Placement program is rigorous and beneficial, writes Mark Carl Rom.
Of Collapsology
Scott McLemee reviews How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times by Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens.