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 pandemic and racial awakening are also prompting a rethinking of college curricula. Experts caution, however, against empty virtue-signaling, or offering fare that’s poorly thought out and might prove superficial and fleeting.
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.
Purchase the issue brief for insight into:
- The new courses that colleges are offering and how they are bringing issues of racial equity and justice into a variety of disciplines, among them criminal justice, public health, art and design, and even e-sports.
- How colleges can adapt curricula when they are already shouldering unprecedented financial and logistical strain
- How coursework can reflect change in the surrounding communities by giving back and providing for a brighter future.
- Strategic ways colleges can navigate these turbulent times and provide students with academic content that reflects this new challenging reality.
Date: October 2020
Pages: 36
Digital file size: 7.88 MB
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