Faculty-Related COVID-19 Policies and Practices at Top-Ranked Higher Education Institutions in the United States.

Researchers, agencies, associations, and faculty members have almost unanimously agreed that without intervention, the COVID-19 pandemic will have severe impacts on the advancement of faculty from historically minoritized groups, including women and racially minoritized faculty members. While recommendations abound, less empirical work has focused on how U.S. higher education institutions have responded to the pandemic. This policy review uses publicly available data from top-ranked colleges and universities (N=386) to examine the kinds of interventions institutions have put in place to respond to the pandemic. We found tenure delays and pandemic impact statements to be the most commonly implemented interventions, with some variation by institutional type and institutional mission. We consider implications of this work for policy and practice as well as for equity in academe.