27 April 2022

At the start of 2022, how many senior academic leaders breathed out – and then promptly tried to restore their campus plans from their 2019 saved files? For many of them, the pandemic is over, online education is back in the “can’t be done” box, and the genie will get back in the bottle if it wants to retain tenure. What were standard practices in 2021 as the guiding “new normal” once again become “accommodations on request” for the foreseeable future as we usher in the golden age of people in physical places.