The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic challenged universities and other academic institutions to rapidly adapt to urgent and life-threatening situations. It forced most institutions to shut down nearly every aspect of their research and educational enterprises. In doing so, university leaders were thrust into unchartered waters and forced them to make unprecedented decisions. Successes and failures along the way highlighted how the autonomous nature of the American academic research enterprise and skillsets normally required of university leaders were ill-suited to mounting an emergency response. Here, as faculty from medical centers in the United States, we draw lessons from these experiences and apply them as we plan for the next possible COVID-19-induced shutdown as well as other large-scale pandemics and emergencies at universities in the United States and throughout the world.

SARS-CoV-2流行病向大学和其他学术机构提出了挑战，要求它们迅速适应紧急和威胁生命的情况。它迫使大多数机构关闭其研究和教育企业的几乎所有方面。为此，大学领导者被迫进入未知领域，并迫使他们做出前所未有的决定。一路走来的成功和失败突出表明，美国学术研究企业的自主性和大学领导通常所需的技能组合不适合进行紧急响应。在这里，作为美国医疗中心的老师，