A Curriculum That Matters

Formerly titled: Crisis Curriculum

How colleges are teaching society’s most pressing problems

The Covid-19 pandemic and racial reckoning revealed huge fissures in political, social, and scientific infrastructure and response, as well as stark underlying inequities. These have prompted a rethinking of college curricula as institutions wrestle with financial havoc and technological logistics. 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: 

• New types of courses that are bringing issues of racial equity and justice into a variety of disciplines
• How colleges can adapt curricula amid unprecedented financial and logistical strain
• Strategic ways colleges can navigate these turbulent times and provide students with fresh and relevant academic content

Date: October 2020
Pages: 36
Digital file size: 7.88 MB

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