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April 17, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Volume 66, Issue 27

Cover Story

The Review
Professors, administrators, and staff members on what the coronavirus will leave in its wake.

Highlights

The Beginning
Before the coronavirus shuttered universities nationwide, it turned Seattle’s college leaders into early responders. Their decisions shaped a nation’s reaction.
The New Normal
The Covid-19 pandemic has closed campuses across the nation, upending the familiar signposts of residential college life.

Commentary

The Review
By Christopher Newfield
The situation demands bold action on par with the New Deal.
Commentary
By Richard Staisloff
Only colleges that take bold steps to improve their efficiency will thrive in a post-coronavirus world.
The Review
By Ignacio Sánchez Prado
Researchers and students engaging with the United States’ second-largest language are ignored in our universities — and in The Chronicle.

Also In This Issue

Advice
In the early weeks of a global catastrophe like Covid-19, it’s best to accept that the world has changed and reimagine yourself and your work within it.
News
In the midst of a pandemic, their expertise is suddenly in demand.
The Review
Administrators have been waiting for the opportunity to finish what they started. Watch out.
The Chronicle Review
Conventional wisdom urges cost-cutting and scaling back ambitions. Here’s why you might want to fight that impulse.
Student-Loan Debt
Borrowers with commercially held federal student loans have options. But forcing them to make difficult decisions during a public-health crisis could put them at risk financially.
News
As tuition revenues dry up and summer auxiliary revenues evaporate, private colleges will need to rely on their savings and lines of credit to get by.
News
An admissions officer braced for tough questions about college in the pandemic. But the Class of 2024 wanted to talk about other things.
Gazette
Gilda Barabino will succeed the founding president of Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.