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Looking at past crises can help us come to terms with our own, argues scholar of plague that ravaged 18th-century Prague

Maker concedes that SAT, already controversial, could grow even more inequitable

Institutions face both praise and criticism while seeking a proper balance, with the University of Chicago contributing a multimillion-dollar package that includes free meals and cash grants

Rebuffed on pricing and open access, universities refuse full-access renewals

The historian and author of Information Hunters on the literary puzzles that inspired her historical sleuthing, the librarians and archivists whose work supported the Allies in wartime Europe, and the thorny issues around preserving documentation

Continuing remote teaching in the autumn will be unsustainable for some institutions, warns leader of online college

Rolling Stone shows how improvisation in difficult circumstances can lead to memorable results, but scholars must also be honest about trade-offs caused by lockdown, say Bailey Sousa and Alexander Clark

We need to build on the speed and enthusiasm with which academics have embraced online teaching, argue Dawn Lerman and Falguni Sen

Reliance on formulas and philosophies giving way to complexity and case studies

Pandemic-driven grading shifts illuminate long-accepted inequities

Coronavirus crisis may make institutions more eager to please to students, but ¡®tensions¡¯ already in evidence

One epidemiologist called a colleague a ¡°charlatan¡± over his coronavirus tweets. Should academics ¡°stay in their lane¡±  when commenting on the pandemic?