How the Pandemic and Racial-Justice Movement Are Transforming Academic Programs
The Covid-19 pandemic and racial reckoning have revealed huge fissures in political, social, and scientific infrastructure and response, as well as stark underlying inequities. Colleges are wrestling with the financial havoc and technological logistics of a hellish year, but the continuing crises are also prompting a rethinking of college curricula.
In this Chronicle issue brief, you’ll learn why there is a distinct urgency to help students understand, cope with, and eventually improve their turbulent world. While there’s no one right way to incorporate racial history, moral kinship, and a balance of humanistic and scientific values into a college curriculum, students are depending on colleges’ innovative thinking and empathy like never before. |
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| Criminal Justice: What's it like to study and teach criminal justice in 2020 America. Public Health: Public-health experts and first-responders have been valorized since March. But while some health subfields continue to see the gains they did pre-pandemic, academic interest in health overall is not spiking. Journalism: Amid questions of identity, authority, and inequity, journalism professors are rethinking assumptions and traditions. |
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