The American Educational Research Association and Spencer Foundation released a separate report on the impact of the pandemic on early-career scholars and doctoral students, based on findings from 12 focus groups (and 58 total participants) conducted in late May and early June. Topics covered include research impact, teaching, work-life balance, racism, career trajectories and uncertainties, institutional support and responses or lack thereof. Recommendations for institutions are providing more funding for material or “soft” support to emerging scholars, supporting caregivers, focusing on mentoring, investing in teaching, building community and connecting scholars, and acknowledging racism in academic settings and taking antiracist action. Framing the pandemic as an opportunity, the reports says it is “our great hope that institutions, and our field more broadly, might embrace this moment in ways that create important and needed changes in practices and policies that contribute to equitable and enriching places for early career scholars and doctoral students to work and thrive.”