While societies have always shifted and morphed, the coronavirus pandemic has seen institutions forced into change and great speed, creating both destructive chaos, as well as disruptive innovation. Within the higher education sector, these changes have raised huge existential and philosophical challenges for individual universities, as their role and existence has been questioned as never before. In this discussion, two senior leaders in UK and US Higher Education, Anne Boddington and Donald Hall, will discuss the challenges and opportunities brought about by the COVID crisis, and also the role of the arts and humanities, which have been further marginalized in many institutions.
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