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Unprecedented times require unprecedented strategies and actions. (PREMIUM)

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Eric Feigl-Ding has been making the rounds on TV as a coronavirus expert. Some of his colleagues think he’s unqualified.
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Here are three ways to get yourself unstuck on those particularly bad pandemic days.
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That’s made professors more empathetic to what their students are going through.
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Just 22 percent think they will achieve those targets, according to a new survey of 415 advancement professionals at 48 higher-education institutions. (PREMIUM)

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By James M. Lang

Two simple exercises — assigned before and after classes were disrupted by Covid-19 — have helped a professor keep his passion for teaching alive.

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