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Fall 2020: The COVID-19 Crisis

Volume 106, Number 4

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Features

Care Is a Practice; Care Is Pedagogical

By Jesse Stommel

The House of Cards

By an adjunct faculty member in the Northeast

Change Can Come Swiftly When We Rally Together

By Matthew Boedy

Reflections from the Battle Lines

By Teena Chopra

Black Women, Mutual Aid, and Union Organizing in the Time of COVID-19

By Donna Murch

Moving beyond Crisis

By Michele Hardesty

Owning the Fail

By a lecturer in Florida

The Necroliberal University

By Benjamin Balthaser and Bill V. Mullen

For a Reparative University

By Michael Meranze

A Marshall Plan for Rebuilding Higher Education

By Jeffrey Sommers, Mark Blyth, James Galbraith, and Luz Sosa

COVID-19, Academic Mothers, and Opportunities for the Academy

By Mary A. Hermann and Cheryl Neale-McFall

How Diversity Rhetoric Obscures Structural Inequities in Higher Education

By Cathryn Bailey

Online Only

Liberal Education after the Pandemic

By James Buckwalter-Arias

Learning through the Pandemic

By Robin A. Harper and Michael Orlando Sharpe

How (Not) to Corporatize a University

By Dane Kennedy

Book Reviews

A Master Class in Organizing

By Lisa C. Minnick

College Financing and the Plight of the Middle Class

By Sandy Baum

A Worthy Primer on Free Speech

By Henry Reichman

Outsourcing Ethics

By Zachary M. Schrag

Chapter Profile

United Academics of the University of Oregon

By Kelly Hand

Columns

From the Editor: The COVID-19 Crisis in Higher Education

By Michael Ferguson

Faculty Forum: Apprehensions, Comprehensions, SARS-CoV-2

By Howard V. Hendrix

Legal Watch: Thwarting Assaults on Immigration

By Nancy Long

From the President: A Time of Reckoning

By Irene Mulvey

Nota Bene

New AAUP Leaders

By Kelly Hand

AAUP Affirms Commitment to Racial Justice

By Kelly Hand

COVID-19 Governance Investigation

By Gregory F. Scholtz

Summer Institute Online

By David Kociemba

New COVID-19 Pandemic Resources

By Michael Ferguson

Journal of Academic Freedom News

By Kelly Hand

AAUP Joins in Amicus Brief in Title IX Case

By Kelly Hand

New Organizing Staff

By Sarah Mink