Mourning and Memorializing in the COVID-19 Era
This article was originally published in NCA’s Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.2020862. Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s In America: Remember is perhaps the most recognizable memorial in the U.S.A. dedicated to those who have died from COVID-19. Firstenberg planted hundreds of thousands of white flags in the shadow of the Washington…
Challenges and Opportunities for Community Colleges in a New Normal
The students we saw in our classrooms in 2019 will not return to our classrooms in the fall of 2021 or the spring of 2022, or ever. The global pandemic and the protest summer of 2020 have changed people permanently. Both the pandemic and the racial reckoning related to the…
New Resources for Post-Pandemic Teachers and Learners
One of the most profound shifts in higher education that was illuminated by COVID-19 in 2020 was the challenge the pandemic posed to (re)envisioning the pedagogical frameworks and practices employed to structure education in the classroom. Pandemic pedagogy, a term that is increasingly employed to describe the phenomenon at the…
Meeting the Movement: A Glimpse of a New Future
As the COVID 19 pandemic stretched across the globe during the summer of 2020, the necessity of social distancing and isolation hit Performance Studies hard. Perhaps no other subset of the Communication discipline is more dependent on people sharing space together than Performance Studies. Performance Studies retains a genealogical connection…
Revisiting the LOCs – Do They Stand Up in the New Normal?
When asked to write an article about NCA’s Learning Outcomes in Communication (LOCs) and if I believed they would stand up in the new normal, my initial answer was yes, of course. After all, I had participated in the development of the LOCs. This multi-year, multi-phase project was some of…
Faculty Self-Care in the Age of Covid
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, weariness proliferates throughout higher education. Staff, faculty, and administrators face challenge after challenge: meeting CDC health guidelines, moving classes online, and handling technology-related stresses brought about by the drastic, immediate shift to virtual learning. March 2020 saw many emails to faculty announcing the move to…
From NHA: Publicly Engaged Humanities in the Pandemic Moment
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many humanists set out to document the quickly worsening global health crisis. As the months progressed, a summer fueled by national protests against police violence and immigrant detention made apparent the overlapping social consequences of public health disparities and racial injustice amidst the…
COVID-19 Teaching and Learning Resources
NCA’s Teaching & Learning Council has collaborated with NCA National Office staff to develop a growing list of online teaching and learning resources that may be helpful to educators and students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new web page includes advice and tips for faculty and students, as well as…