This moment is an opportunity to change economic models; new students are rethinking college this fall; and more.
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By Paul N. Friga

This moment represents an opportunity for colleges and universities to make significant changes to their economic and academic models to handle the new financial realities.

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By Eric Hoover

Many students are rethinking their intentions to enroll at a four-year college this fall, according to a new survey. Most still planning to do so aren’t expecting to end up at their first choice.
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By Katherine Mangan

The Virginia college says nearly 2,000 students have returned and faculty members are expected to have office hours on campus. The mayor called the decision “reckless.”  
Faculty
By Emma Pettit

Online lectures mean conservative critics of higher ed could have more content to mine for ammunition.
Research
By Tom Bartlett

In the midst of a pandemic, their expertise is suddenly in demand.
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By Audrey Williams June

The list includes arts, sports, and community events, and dozens of lectures and seminars.
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Liberty University will move classes online but keep dorms and office hours open, Quinnipiac University told faculty members to expect pay cuts, and other updates.
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Replicating human heart tissue, the University of Notre Dame’s Pinar Zorlutuna is engineering human equivalent tissues in efforts to extend the time frame of heart transport and surgery, thus reducing the size of the transplant waiting list.

The Coronavirus: Resources to Help You Adapt and Plan
  • Hear how the pandemic is changing prospective students’ college plans, in a live chat on Thursday, March 26, at 3 p.m., EDT, on The Chronicle’s Facebook group Higher Ed and the Coronavirus. Craig Goebel of the Art & Science Group will discuss its research and answer questions. Become a member here to tune in.
  • Consider the financial implications of the crisis in a virtual forum, on Thursday, March 26, at 2 p.m., EDT, with Michael Drake, president of Ohio State University; Paul N. Friga, a business professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a consultant to colleges; and Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle. Sign up here.
  • Learn strategies to manage the transition to online learning, in an Educause webinar on Thursday, March 26, at 1 p.m., EDT, featuring the Chronicle senior writer Beth McMurtrie. Sign up here.
  • Tell us what topics you’d like to see us explore in virtual events and other forms. Email us here.

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By Marcia Chatelain

Students do the hard work of rectifying racism in the academy. Administrators take the credit. (PREMIUM)

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Research at Edith Cowan University is improving the ways we identify the presence of gluten in foods and drinks with the use of proteometry. This method allows for identifying gluten not detectable through immunoassay, which often cannot trace heavily processed gluten.

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