University Research: A Time of Disparate Change — from insidehighered.com by Peter Schiffer and Jay Walsh
During the pandemic, the research ecosystem has undergone a complex transformation, which will necessitate a multifaceted response
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At the present moment, however, roughly four months from when campuses were largely emptied across the United States, university scholars have vastly different experiences both behind them and ahead of them.
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Each of these global shifts by themselves would be considered transformational to university research in a normal time. That they are happening during a global reckoning with the realities of racism, and along with the social upheaval of the pandemic, makes them all the more profound.