The Covid-19 pandemic and racial reckoning have revealed huge fissures in political, social, and scientific infrastructure and response, as well as stark underlying inequities. Colleges are wrestling with the financial havoc and technological logistics of a hellish year, but the continuing crises are also
prompting a rethinking of college curricula. 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.
