Every Tuesday in OnCampus the Deputy Provost shares two articles with a read time of 10 minutes.

There is no doubt that we have changed, as an institution and as a faculty, from our experiences in the past 18 months. While the pandemic is not over, and the “return to normal” is something I am suspicious of, it does seem a good time to begin to reflect on what we’ve learned. Who is “in” for this exploration? I’m seeking nominations for people to form a loose working group—meeting pretty regularly from December to May—to understand the impact that COVID-19 has had on the way we approach our students, our classrooms, our profession. Please email renee.cramer@drake.edu to volunteer yourself and nominate your colleagues. We’ll meet in ways that are generative, not onerous; and we’ll develop an institutionally-useful report on what we learn about how our approaches have grown and changed.

— Renée Cramer, Deputy Provost