As the coronavirus spreads, colleges close classroom doors and try remote teaching; a guide to good online instruction; campus quarantines; and more
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Facing an Unprecedented Threat
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By Emma Dill, Karin Fischer, Beth McMurtrie, and Beckie Supiano

The transition to remote teaching involves a lot more than flipping a switch. (PREMIUM)

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A Timely Advice Guide
By Flower Darby

Many professors don’t know how to teach online, and may not know how to improve at it. Our comprehensive guide can help.

Campus Health
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By Francie Diep

There are the logistics, like getting food to quarantined residential students, and then there’s the question of how to ensure people keep to quarantines that aren’t legally mandated. (PREMIUM)

In Face of Crisis, Feds Ease Rules
By Karin Fischer

As the health threat brings visa headaches, travel concerns, and financial uncertainty to overseas students in the United States, colleges must plan for different scenarios. (PREMIUM)

Campus Health
Chronicle Staff

Today’s updates include universities moving classes online, more academic-conference cancellations, and plans to play NCAA basketball games in empty arenas.

Students
By Julia Schmalz

Rather than talking about who is more overwhelmed, students are trying new resources to figure out — and share — what wellness means to them.

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Advice
By Rob Jenkins

Three things you shouldn’t say to a community-college hiring committee and four other remarks best avoided at any type of campus interview.

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By Nancy Scott Hanway

How to handle inappropriate questions, random comments, and offers of alcohol.

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