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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bliwise, Robert J., 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Duke University.

Duke University--Administration.

Duke University--Planning.

Duke University--Social life and customs.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--North Carolina--Durham.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Social distancing (Public health) and education--North Carolina--Durham.

Social distancing (Public health) and education.

School management and organization--North Carolina--Durham.

School management and organization.

Web-based instruction--North Carolina--Durham.

Web-based instruction.

Management.

Manners and customs.

Planning.

North Carolina--Durham.

Physical Description:

216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

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.

Contents:

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.

Other Format:

Online version: Bliwise, Robert J., 1954- Pivot

ISBN:

9781478016489

1478016485

9781478019121

1478019123

OCLC:

1302577024