A diverse group of faculty contributors offer firsthand accounts of how the COVID-19 pandemic upended their lives and work.

Administrative responses to COVID-19 and racial violence project parallel visions of the management of death.

As we look toward a postpandemic future, we must work to create a university that can repair both the devastating wounds inflicted on society under finance capitalism and the internal rifts that have diminished the community of scholars.

Renewed government investment in public higher education could produce broad economic and social benefits.

The pandemic brings new urgency to the need to support the success of all faculty, especially women who are caregivers.

A bureaucratic approach to diversity issues in higher education, combined with the ebbing of faculty power and status, is shaping how marginalized academics imagine themselves and their professional futures.