Opinion

In these trying times, the last thing that students need to see is their professional, highly educated professor falling apart at the seams, argues Kristie Kiser.

Any short-term fixes to address the current crisis must not obscure the continuing need for longer-term changes in how states finance public higher education, argues Arthur M. Hauptman.

We will all be returning to a different reality in our classrooms, writes Ted Gup, and the challenge will be to identify that which is fundamental and defining.

When humanity is under threat, humans crave the humanities, write Emily Levine and Matthew Rascoff, and that ethos should guide higher education as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.

Rather than pursue an educational approach that will most likely fail, we should let students enroll in the fall with no tuition or living expenses charged, argues Amihai Glazer.