Bliwise Robert J. Bliwise

Pivot (eBook, PDF)

One Pandemic, One University

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The COVID-19 pandemic presented higher education with an unprecedented challenge: How could institutions continue the basic work of teaching and research while maintaining safe environments for their faculty, staff, and students? In The Pivot, Robert J. Bliwise traces Duke University's response to the pandemic to show how higher education broadly met that challenge head-on. Bliwise interviews people across the campus: from bus drivers and vaccine researchers to student activists, dining hall managers, and professors in areas from English to ecology. He explores the shift to teaching online and the reshaping of research programs; how surveillance testing and reconfiguring residence halls and dining sites helped limit the virus spread on campus; the efforts to promote student well-being and to sustain extracurricular programs; and what the surge in COVID-19 cases meant for the university health system. Bliwise also shows how broad cultural conversations surrounding the 2020 presidential election, climate change, free speech on campus, and systemic racism unfolded in this changed campus environment. Although the pandemic put remarkable pressures on the campus community, Bliwise demonstrates that it ultimately reaffirmed the importance of the campus experience in all its richness and complexity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478023753
• Artikelnr.: 72430798

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Bliwise is Editor Emeritus of Duke Magazine, where he served as Editor for almost forty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Course of a Pandemic  1
1. The Campus as a Physical Space  13
2. The Campus as a Space for Learning  35
3. The Campus as a Space for Discovery  57
4. The Campus as a Space for Collective Well-Being  68
5. The Campus as a Space for Individual Well-Being  92
6. The Campus as a Space for Personal Growth  111
7. The Campus as a Space for Renewal  132
8. The Campus as a Space Where Societal Issues Play Out  144
9. The Campus as a Space for Improving the Human Condition  176
10. The Campus Reaffirmed  200