To document Covid-19’s indelible mark on life and work in higher education, The Chronicle followed more than a dozen people in the space of a day.

The pandemic has not just disrupted international students’ college experience. It has marooned them all over the world.

The pandemic has frayed nerves and exposed our tattered safety net. Can this researcher make people see the connection?

What changes from this year will stick?

The financial situation is dire. But colleges that stay focused have a fighting chance.

A look back at a trying year for higher ed reveals strained budgets, falling enrollment, hefty job losses, burned-out faculty and staff members, struggling students, and death.

Long before many colleges had set their plans — and despite a prevailing narrative that students wouldn’t enroll — California State declared that fall semester would be largely online.

Carl Hart felt he had to “come out of the closet.” He knew there’d be downsides.

A new program will guarantee one semester of adviser-independent funding so students will have time to find a new adviser or lab and not miss a paycheck.

Readers told us what they’re sick of, what they’ve missed, and what has forever changed, for better or worse.

Almost all the instruments colleges would normally use to predict the fall are broken.

Prognosticators predicted mass shutterings. That hasn’t happened, but other enormous changes are underway.

Our professional identity has suffered, and so have our students. But we’ve learned, too.

Those of us in academic leadership are not talking enough about mental health and wellness.