Posted on 06/29/2020 6:06:00 AM PDT by karpov
Although colleges across the country plan to reopen for the fall semester, much is still unknown about how to best proceed. Leaders are grappling with how to best safeguard public health while attempting to re-establish some sense of normalcy on campus.
Despite the uncertainties that lie ahead, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Buck Goldstein, argues that research universities like UNC-Chapel Hill have a responsibility to “lead the way when it comes to basic operations in the new reality…The choices they make and the mistakes they inevitably suffer will help guide governments and businesses of all kinds in restarting our economy safely, effectively, and ethically,” Goldstein said.
Goldstein is the university entrepreneur in residence and a professor of the practice in the department of economics at UNC-Chapel Hill. He writes a regular newsletter called Our Higher Calling and co-authored the book, Our Higher Calling: Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities.
The Martin Center spoke with Goldstein to discuss how and why universities should reopen as the country battles COVID-19.
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The virus induced stupid is so wide-spread it may never go away.
They need to open,minus all the Communist Chinese and Indian students.
AMERICAN research positions for Americans
I wonder how many of the old tenured lib profs quit this fall for fear of catching the covid? Could be a good thing.
It’s actually kinda strange. All these top universities with diversity chairs and gender studies and hoards of students enrolled in ethnic studies, political science, etc - why isn’t there a call to reopen those universities as a priority?
I mean, you have people seizing private and public property to call their own, you’d imagine that some gender studies professors would be quite critical in finding answers to these problems.
After all, aren’t such things taught as being a ‘science’ as well?
‘course, you’d have to get students to actually show up at the university and stay in class rather than tearing down statues while simultaneously racking up billions of dollars of student debt...
To accomplish that pressure must be brought on the state universities via the governor & the legislature.
Communist china...saudi money....mega businesses fund lots of research....all meant to benefit themselves...many, many students devolve into pleasure and status seeking automatons
I suggest "released" instead of "induced."
The stupid is always with us, but in some periods is less contained than others.
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