The fall is days away, and Covid-19 is surging. The Chronicle is tracking developments across higher ed here. Read on for daily live updates and information.
Expanding access to Wi-Fi, housing first responders, engaging kids and senior citizens — here’s who is doing what to fight the pandemic and its fallout.
As colleges and universities have struggled to devise policies to respond to the quickly evolving situation, here are links to The Chronicle’s key coverage of how this worldwide health crisis is affecting campuses.
Colleges got a clear answer last week on how to apply a Trump administration policy on international students. It just wasn’t the answer they wanted to hear.
UPCOMING: August 5, 2:00 p.m., ET | With support from Quest Alexander Kafka, a Chronicle senior editor, will lead a conversation about what contact tracing on campus really looks like for colleges, and how this will affect their reopening plans for the fall. This includes monitoring their social-distancing practices, testing for Covid-19 to ensure containment of the virus, and most importantly, informing anyone who may have been exposed. Register Now
ON DEMAND: Host Jack Stripling, a veteran Chronicle writer, is joined by a panel of presidents from across sectors to discuss institutional stewardship and morale. They will explore how leaders define their priorities, how they make decisions, and what shifts they see for higher education on the horizon. With support from: Workday Watch on demand
ON DEMAND: Host Lindsay Ellis, Chronicle’s senior reporter, is joined by a panel of college leaders to discuss what pros and cons decision makers are weighing, who should be brought into the decision- making process, and how to balance obligations that leaders have to their students, employees and communities. Watch on demand
ON DEMAND: With many colleges planning to reopen either fully or partially in just a few weeks, they are searching for effective ways to track the health of the campus community and are increasingly turning to telemedical and artificial-intelligence solutions to help. Alexander Kafka, a Chronicle senior editor, will lead a conversation about what immediate steps they are planning. 网飞加速器下载破解版
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.
The Chronicle’s executive-compensation database includes the latest salary information, plus years of data, on more than 1,400 chief executives at more than 600 private colleges and nearly 270 public universities and systems.
Colleges with a good share of women in STEM fields, including nursing, can end up having higher average salaries for female full professors than for men.
No one in higher education can afford to be complacent. Cultural, demographic, and economic forces are changing the world around and on campuses, challenging long-held beliefs and upending traditions. This special report on five major trends in higher education — and other emergent changes to be aware of — will help you chart a path.
Liberty, Grand Canyon, Western Governors, and a few other universities have found a new way to play the game that many colleges are losing. Could they one day lay claim to a significant share of the nation’s new college students?