Cover Story
News
They rallied to get through the spring after Covid-19 hit, but they’ll need to deliver a better learning experience if they want skeptical students to return.
Highlights
Leadership
The Covid-19 pandemic will test the mettle and ingenuity of even the most seasoned college leaders. But some of them are brand new to the job.
After years of standing on the sidelines in the fight for adjuncts’ rights, more tenured professors are entering the fray. Are they too late?
Commentary
The Review
Anastasia Berg, Ross Douthat, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Caitlin Zaloom discuss a contested concept.
The Review
Even before Covid-19, contingent faculty members could be cut for almost any reason. That’s about to get worse.
Advice
It’s time — right now — for better communication from administrators about the pandemic fallout on campuses at this very moment, for the summer, and in preparation for the fall.
Advice
Nine tips for administrative job candidates on how to avoid the many minefields of interviewing by video from home.
Also in the Issue
Gazette
Transitions: U. of North Carolina at Charlotte Selects New Chancellor; 2020 Guggenheim Fellows Named
The next chancellor of UNC at Charlotte comes from the University of Toledo. More than two-thirds of this year’s Guggenheim fellows are in academe.
Leadership
University leaders sound cautiously optimistic about their plans for the fall, even as experts agree there will be no return to normalcy.
News
More than 70 academics say universities that have offered tenure-clock extensions should also extend contracts of adjuncts and grad students because of Covid-19.
The pandemic may narrow striving campuses’ ambitious future plans.
News
A checklist for leaders of colleges with small endowments, diminishing cash, uneven student demand, and stiff competition, and who are wondering what the future holds for their institutions.