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Higher Education Institutions Respond to Epidemics

Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: As colleges and universities respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, many in the media call itunprecedented. This is not the first time that institutions of higher education have had to respond to an epidemic, however. A historical review of college and university reactions to illnesses such as yellow fever and the 1918 influenza pandemic provides prior examples of institutional responses to epidemic diseases.
Language: English
Subfield: History
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3042908086
FWCI: 28.38
Cites: 7
Cited by: 18
Related to: 10