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Making the New Normal Work

Vicente Gracias and Brian L. Strom share how the targeted coronavirus testing strategy at Rutgers University is helping suppress outbreaks and keep the community safe.
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The Decline of Testing Affects More Than Testing

From efforts to recruit students to rankings, the impact is immense, write Bill Conley and Bob Massa.
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Podcasting a Polymath

Scott McLemee discusses the podcast A Very Square Peg: The Strange and Remarkable Life of the Polymath Robert Eisler.
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Career Exploration in College

Essays on how colleges can do more to help undergraduates explore careers while ensuring that their educations are relevant to the job market.
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When Polling Fails, Read a Book

Transformative texts offer us a way to confront the mystery of the human condition and, in our current context, what we don’t understand about American politics, writes Tamara Mann Tweel.
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If We Don’t Push for a More Diverse Faculty Now, Then When?

Too often, diversity initiatives are the first to fall when times are tight, but we must stop making that mistake and use this moment for lasting change, writes Ansley Abraham.
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A Surprising Fruit of Our Pandemic Fall Semester

Counterintuitively to some people, the post-COVID campus will have a renewed, more dynamic sense of place, not a diminished one, writes Laurie L. Patton.
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Why Johnny Can't Learn Remotely

High schools are not doing a great job with online education, and we shouldn't be surprised, writes Patrick O'Connor.