Covid-19 Enters College but to what Degree?

This article considers the potential long term implications of university emergency responses to Covid-19. Â While empathetic responses are important in a time of crisis, emergency measures should not necessarily entail the infringement of or the abandonment of rights articulated in existing policies, procedures, collective agreements, or contracts. Â Areas of particular vulnerability include academic freedom, faculty workload, and intellectual property rights. Â The author also suggests that crisis responses by higher education may be seen as more of an intensification of neoliberal pressures than as signaling new pressures from the pandemic alone.