From the article:
Recent surveys show that both employees and employers support this arrangement. And research suggests that a couple of days a week at each location is the magic number to cancel out the negatives of each arrangement while reaping the benefits of both.

“You should never be thinking about full time or zero time,” said Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford whose research has identified causal links between remote work and employee performance. “I’m a firm believer in post-Covid half time in the office.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/upshot/is-the-five-day-office-week-over.html?referringSource=articleShare

From the article:
Classrooms and residence halls will drop to 50% capacity in the fall, while 30% of university staff will work remotely during the fall semester, which will run from Aug. 24 to Nov. 24 without any breaks. There will be no indoor seating in dining halls, which will shift to carry-out only and require socially-distancing in student lines.

Students who cannot return to campus—or who choose not to—will be able to participate in a fully online semester.

https://universitybusiness.com/purdue-university-reopening-fall-2020-coronavirus-covid-testing/

From the article:
The Flex@Pitt program is said to allow students to experience classes “in person, remotely, synchronously or asynchronously,” in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Pitt officials said last week that students would not be required to attend class in person for the fall.

But Cudd added that a classroom experience must be made available for students, and faculty are encouraged to physically come to the classroom where possible.

Cudd said in situations where instructors cannot come to campus, students can still be in classrooms to connect with their peers, with the instructor visible on screen to engage with students, field questions or conduct discussions. She said graduate or undergraduate teaching assistants, faculty colleagues or staff members may be utilized in their stead to facilitate classroom interaction.

Cudd added that as part of Flex@Pitt, the University will ensure that all faculty members have access to high-quality technology, such as laptops. Pitt said on Wednesday that it will spend the second half of its federal CARES Act funding, around $10.6 million, on fall restart costs, including Flex@Pitt.

“Our investment in technology will allow us to support our faculty and students, enroll a full class of students and transform the teaching environment well beyond the pandemic,” Cudd said.

https://pittnews.com/article/158587/top-stories/faculty-not-required-to-be-in-person-but-must-provide-classroom-experience/

Professors on US campuses fear their Chinese students could be blocked from classes or get into trouble for attending courses on the country's politics and history.

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/e5512aba-e932-39e4-9e0b-b925b7581c5a/academics-fear-using-zoom-to.html

From the article:
"Several schools, from large state flagship universities to small private colleges, have reported record summer enrollment even as the country grapples with a recession and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Officials at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) outside Atlanta reported a 14% increase in its summer enrollment in online classes, reaching the highest summer numbers in the school’s 15-year history.

“In times of economic trouble, people turn to higher education as a path to a brighter future,” President Jann Joseph said in a statement. “And with GGC’s affordability, quality of instruction and a convenient location to such a large population, we know that many people will turn to us.” "
https://universitybusiness.com/colleges-universities-record-summer-enrollment-covid-recession-coronavirus/

From the article:
"The Times Higher Education or THE Impact Rankings are designed to measure the extent to which universities are working towards fulfilling the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs are not focused on higher education, but provide a shared blueprint for setting strategies that seek to improve health and education, reduce inequality and foster economic growth, while addressing climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests."
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=2020050409591134

From the article:
As arguments and opinion pieces about online learning continue to appear in the coming months, two points are worth remembering:

"First, we need to temper our expectations of remote instruction. Even if we are able to whip every faculty member up to speed on the latest digital teaching tools, we can never replicate online the full range of experiences that students have on a physical campus, including those who spend only a few hours a week there. We will hear complaints. We will lose some students, and we’ll have to wait for some who choose to defer.
Second, the dissatisfaction we will hear — about the spring or fall semesters — should not lead us to hasty conclusions about either face-to-face or online teaching. We need to avoid lazy generalizations that fail to take into account the infinite variations of students who are seeking a higher education."
https://community.chronicle.com/news/2353-on-not-drawing-conclusions-about-online-teaching-now-or-next-fall?cid=VTEVPMSED1

From the article:
"We’re more in touch than we would have been during a normal class, and it was over something constructive that we were building together,” she says. “It has made me more eager to try out other kinds of assignments like this and teach sociology using students’ different skill sets.”
https://universitybusiness.com/social-justice-museum-student-engagement-hamilton-college-sociology-online/

From the author, Tom Mason: "I argue that it is hypocritical and even unethical to invite new international students to campus until universities have proven that effective plans are in place to ensure their safety, a process that may take a semester, if not two, to complete."
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=202005141501467

https://time.com/5845752/america-has-its-knee-on-us-george-floyds-death-was-a-breaking-point-protests/