AvataralexeblazerBusiness The Debate About School Safety Is No Longer Relevant verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Elliot HaspelFor months, the debate about whether to open schools has centered on one question: Are schools safe? The only trouble is, this hardly matters anymore. Except in the few remaining regions with modest rates...
Avataralexeblazer America Will Sacrifice Anything for the College Experience verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Ian BogostThe pandemic has revealed that higher education was never about education. American colleges botched the pandemic from the very start. Caught off guard in the spring, most of them sent everyone home in...
Avataralexeblazer The Risk Universities Can’t Not Take verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Charles FishmanInside the University of Arizona's $8-million, 117-day fight to reopen amid a pandemic Ian Pepper and Charles Gerba have been waiting 30 years for the chance to use sewage to save the world. And in the...
Avataralexeblazer Blame the People in Charge Lifehacker - Beth Skwarecki Last month, it looked like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had one of the better plans for bringing students back, which included …
Avataralexeblazer What Did College Leaders Think Was Going to Happen? verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Adam HarrisOn August 16, dozens upon dozens of students wrap around the barrier in front of Gallettes, a local haunt in Tuscaloosa. It’s the end of formal sorority recruitment at the University of Alabama. One student...
