Title The pivot : one pandemic, one university / Robert J. Bliwise

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : The Course of a Pandemic -- The Campus as a Physical Space -- The Campus as a Space for Learning -- The Campus as a Space for Discovery -- The Campus as a Space for Collective Well-Being -- The Campus as a Space for Individual Well-Being -- The Campus as a Space for Personal Growth -- The Campus as a Space for Renewal -- The Campus as a Space Where Societal Issues Play Out -- The Campus as a Space for Improving the Human Condition -- The Campus Reaffirmed Summary "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 from across 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."-- Provided by publisher Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Description based on print version record digitized 2023. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Duke University. Duke University -- Administration Duke University -- Planning Duke University -- Students -- Social life and customs Duke University -- Faculty -- Social life and customs SUBJECT Duke University fast Subject COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- North Carolina -- Durham Social distancing (Public health) and education -- North Carolina -- Durham School management and organization -- North Carolina -- Durham Web-based instruction -- North Carolina -- Durham EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher. EDUCATION / Higher Web-based instruction Social distancing (Public health) and education School management and organization Planning Manners and customs Management North Carolina -- Durham Form Electronic book LC no. 2022026525 ISBN 1478023759 9781478023753

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