Voices of Expertise & Experience: Insights to Inform Responses to COVID-19’s Impact on Financial Security and Higher Education
The TIAA Institute is publishing informed perspectives that can guide strategic planning and decisions arising from the pandemic. The authors of these briefs—who include Institute staff, Institute Fellows, and other subject matter experts—draw from existing Institute research and their expertise to share innovative ideas and insights on relevant financial and operational issues, related to both personal and institutional recovery.
In addition to the briefs, there are longer pieces that bring forward expert voices tapped through Institute interviews and discussions with leading thinkers. Topics include the pandemic’s effects on recent graduates, ways to promote financial security during increased market volatility, and how institutional leaders are confronting intensified operational and strategic challenges. New perspectives are added each month.
The following briefs reflect on how the COVID-19 crisis might influence academic workforce decisions and what institutions can do in response.
Higher education leaders’ perspectives on impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
TIAA Institute
COVID-19: What the pandemic might mean for mergers in higher education?
Ricardo Azziz, University at Albany, SUNY
COVID-19: Will the pandemic worsen U.S. higher education's excess capacity?
Ricardo Azziz, University at Albany, SUNY
The new normal: Higher education in a post-COVID-19 world
TIAA, EY-Parthenon
Reframing decision making in the current crisis
James C Hearn, University of Georgia
A pandemic opportunity? Reassurement of institutional patterns and practices
Herman Berliner, Hofstra University
The importance of equity-minded leadership during dual pandemics
Wil Del Pilar, The Education Trust
Can strategic alliances move higher education beyond its “Digital Dunkirk Moment” to build our next-generation learning infrastructure?
Michael K. Thomas, New England Board of Higher Education
How might faculty roles & engagements evolve in light of the global pandemic?
Adrianna J. Kezar, University of Southern California
What key considerations should guide redesigning the academic workforce?
Gregg Kvistad, University of Denver
How will COVID-19 affect faculty retirements?
Paul Yakoboski, TIAA Institute
Can the reluctant retiree phenomena be addressed?
Paul Yakoboski, TIAA Institute
How do faculty decide whether and when to retire?
Paul Yakoboski, TIAA Institute
Three key questions for higher education philanthropy in 2020 and beyond
Genevieve G. Shaker, IUPUI Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
These briefs consider how individuals prepare for, and navigate, financial shocks.
Can households effectively mitigate COVID-19 portfolio risk?
Brent Davis, David P. Richardson, TIAA Institute
How can near-retirees limit the net worth impacts of COVID-19?
Brent Davis, TIAA Institute
Are Americans financially resilient to weather COVID-19?
Paul Yakoboski, TIAA Institute
How will the pandemic affect Gen Y financial planning?
Conrad Ciccotello, University of Denver