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The Arizona State University authors describe three features of the 'new normal' (quoted):

  1. (it) demands that colleges and universities work together to establish greater capacity for remote, distributed education ;
  2. we been able to move beyond replication to new strategies of change, and COVID-19 has confirmed the legitimacy of doing so;
  3. Far too many higher education outcomes are determined by a student's family income... first-generation students and students of color will be disproportionately afflicted.

In other words, "COVID-19 raises questions about the relevance, the quality, and the accessibility of higher education - and these are the same challenges higher education has been grappling with for years." Now, is ASU a model response to these challenges? The Charles Koch Foundation, which sponsored this article, may think so. But diligence demands a broader and more democratic consideration.

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