The biggest issue that college and university officials face in 2020 may be one that few of them ever thought about before. The advent of the novel coronavirus, which causes a disease known as Covid-19, has affected a host of campus issues, including foreign study and travel by students and faculty members, international-student enrollments, campus health, and whether to hold mass events such as conferences, sporting events, and commencements.
As bad news about the virus, its spread, and its death toll continued to arrive from overseas and from state and federal health agencies, campuses 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 crisis affected college campuses.
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NewsHow Do You Make a Virtual Commencement Worth Watching? Add Celebrity Cameos and a Marching Band
Colleges try to recreate the pomp to help the Class of 2020 briefly forget the circumstance that tarnished their senior year. -
News
Its Eyes on the Fall, One Campus Is Conducting a Public-Health Dry Run. Here’s What That Looks Like.
The University of California at San Diego proposes to take “widespread testing” to a whole new level. Is this what every campus will have to do? -
Advice
Teaching Through a Bout With Covid-19
With “mild” symptoms that didn’t feel all that mild, a professor found a good distraction in his remote teaching. -
The Review
The Coronavirus Enrollment Crash
Five admissions leaders on the pandemic’s impact — and what can be done about it. -
Advice
5 Takeaways From My Covid-19 Remote Teaching
A professor reflects on what she’s learned from the tumult of the spring semester and what she plans to do differently in the fall. -
News
Are Colleges Ready for a Different Kind of Teaching This Fall?
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. -
News
‘I’m Bewildered’: For Tiny Colleges, Federal Covid-19 Stimulus Is a Windfall
The Education Department is using a discretionary fund to give even small institutions a shot at $500,000 in Cares Act money. “I don’t know what we would do with $500,000, to be honest with you,” one official says. -
Advice
Keep Calm and Hire On (If You Get the Chance)
Five steps a department took to adapt its usual search process amid Covid-19 and hire a new faculty member remotely. -
The Review
How the Coronavirus Will — or Should — Transform Graduate Education
The polite fiction of grad school as an apprenticeship for a future career now faces obliteration.
